EU Rapporteur Urges FYROM's Accession Talks

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The European Council this December should extend a start date for FYROM's EU membership talks, the European Parliament rapporteur on FYROM Richard Howitt said.
“This country has reached a point when negotiations should be opened," Howitt said in FYROM.
"All of my efforts and energy are focused on the attempt at finding real compromises in Brussels in order for membership talks with the EU to start," Howitt added.


He said a start to talks would motivate the country to continue reforms and solve all its outstanding issues affecting its EU integration process, including the prolonged "name" "dispute" with Greece.

“I cannot predict on what's going to happen [in Brussels], I don't say it won't happen, what I'm saying is that it should happen," Howitt said.

In October, FYROM obtained its fourth recommendation in a row for a start to EU membership talks as part of a generally positive European Commission progress report.

But Europe has not offered a start date for talks owing to a Greek "blockade", related to the dispute over FYROM’s name.

Greece insists that FYROM’s name implies territorial claims to its own northern province. Both countries are engaged in long-standing talks in the UN to resolve the issue but these have not led to a breakthrough.

During his visit to FYROM, Howitt on Wednesday met FYROM's Prime Minister, Nikola Grueuvski.

MEP Howitt also met the Deputy Prime Minister for EU Affairs, Teuta Arifi, the head of the opposition Social Democrats, Branko Crvenkovski, and local NGO representatives.

Sinisa Jakov-Marusic Balkan Insight (8/11/12)

*(After the necessary corrections with the name "FYROM".  

GREECE recognised this country with the name "FYROM")

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Ο Βρετανός ευρωβουλευτής Richard Howitt, η Έκθεση Προόδου για την ΠΓΔΜ και το άσχημο παιχνίδι κατά της Ελλάδας (Μέρος 1ο)

 

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Ο Βρετανός ευρωβουλευτής Richard Howitt, η Έκθεση Προόδου για την ΠΓΔΜ και το άσχημο παιχνίδι κατά της Ελλάδας (Μέρος 2ο)