Harsher rhetoric between VMRO-DPMNE and BDI and the EU agenda stepping down a few notches on the list of priorities, according to analysts, are the certain consequences to be felt in the governing coalition if Macedonia is denied again a date for opening accession negotiations with the EU at the summit of the European Council in December because of the pending name dispute with Greece, Nova Makedonija says in its front-page analysis Tuesday.

When Macedonia was not even put on the agenda of the EU leaders’ summit in June, BDI appealed for finding a solution to the name issue by December this year. Ali Ahmeti’s party said then that mediator Matthew Nimetz’s latest proposal should be directly discussed over the following few months and the dispute should be resolved by the time of the next summit in December.