Distinguished European politicians are on the list that the European Union has provided to the two largest political parties in Macedonia – SDSM and VMRO-DPMNE – so they can appoint the president of the inquiry committee tasked with shedding light on the events of 24 December last year. All persons on the list are known to the Macedonian public and have been directly or indirectly connected to Macedonia over the past two decades, as two of them are members of the European Parliament, Utrinski vesnik reports. However, neither SDSM nor VMRO-DPMNE has yet voiced their views of the list of candidates.

Following the meeting between Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski and SDSM leader Zoran Zaev on Thursday, there is little chance for the president of the committee to be a home expert for it is hardly likely that anyone in Macedonia would undertake that responsibility as those proposed by one party are unacceptable to the other.

According to information that Utrinski vesnik obtained from diplomatic sources, the four experts on the list include Daniel Tarschys from Sweden, Graham Watson and Michael Lee from the UK, and Monica Macovei from Romania.