Greece needs to be told not to close Macedonia's door, says MEP
Strasbourg. Slovenian MEP Ivo Vajgl has said that Greece should be told not to close the door of an EU candidate country, which is Macedonia in this case, Macedonian MIA news agency informs.
"At the end of the day, Greece needs to be told, and I have done this on several occasions, that at the moment the country is Europe's problem and that it is not the one being able to close the door of new EU aspirants. The Greeks have gotten their concessions and bonuses in the past and some of them were not deserved. A bonus is always awarded to those that are already inside, which is very simple," Vajgl told Deutsche Welle.
"Still, I believe it is not possible negotiations with Macedonia to be launched without previously solving the name dispute," the MEP said. Moreover, he endorsed the move advocated by Macedonia - the name row with Greece to be settled in the manner applied by Slovenia and Croatia.
Ivo Vajgl has showed a more direct stance involving Macedonia's omission from Cyprus' program on its six-month EU presidency.