At the end of June the EU Council is scheduled to assess the progress by FYROM in its EU integration efforts. However, latest information from Brussels showed the country again wouldn't be given a date for start of the membership negotiations.
A candidate country for EU membership since 2005 and with recommendation for start of accession negotiations with the Union since 2009, FYROM's progress has been blocked for four years in a row.
The main obstacle is the dispute over the name of FYROM with Greece. After the breakup of Yugoslavia in 1991, the use of the name Macedonia has become object of a heated argument between Greece and the newly independent republic.
Greece opposes its tiny northern neighbor being called Macedonia, arguing that the name Macedonia harbors a territorial claim over a northern Greek province.
However, FYROM's Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski recently stated that the name issue might not be the only obstacle in the future. He complained that the EU is passive in the case of FYROM and that is why this problem is being put on the margins.
"We do not exclude that in future other reasons would be invented as an excuse for our progress and that obstacle would not be Greece," Gruevski said last week at a celebration of his ruling party VMRO-DPMNE founding day.
He added that FYROM has to prepare short- and long-term plans that will establish how the country should manage its progress in these circumstances.
Diplomats and EU experts have warned that there would be no progress for FYROM on the upcoming Council of EU.
Former EU ambassador to FYROM Erwan Fouere sent a message from Brussels saying that the decision for start of negotiations for the country again will be postponed.
He claimed that apart from the dispute with Greece there are a few other reasons for a setback, such as the lack of political dialogue and the setback in various EU reforms.
"The new postponement is not good because the only way the country to exit the crises is start of the membership negotiations, " Fouere said.
Malinka Ristevska-Jordanova from the Institute for European Policy in Skopje also thinks that apart from the name issue there are a few several reasons for the setback of FYROM's integrations.
"There are some well-founded reasons for the political regress of FYROM in the EU integrations. For example, in December last year, opposition MPs and journalists were thrown out of the Parliament. Those incidents painted a bad picture," Ristevska-Jordanovska has told a local meida.
Polls show that in the last couple of years more than 80 percent of FYROM's support EU integration and believe that membership in this organization will bring a better life.
Ivica Bocevski, former vice prime minister for EU affairs, has warned that other countries' progress on their way to join the EU might change FYROM's view on their own progress and place their full blame completely at the door of the EU.
"If Serbia makes a step forward and FYROM makes a step backwards, then our public will read this not as a mistake of our government but as unprincipled politics by the EU and that will be very negative development of the situation," Bocevski analyzes.
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21/6/13 *(After the necessary corrections with the name "FYROM". GREECE recognised this country with the name "FYROM")
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