| Greece to decide on third EU veto this year - paper |
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| Monday, 30 November 2009 | |
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The Czech Republic fought to the end and solved the problem with the Sudetenland Germans. Slovenia succumbed to the pressure and lost everything. Greece should learn the morals from this and see what it should do to settle the name issue with Skopje, reads Greek daily "Ethnos". "These three vetoes have caused concern within the EU. One of them, which will probably last for a long time and still in the air, is the Greek veto to the beginning of EU accession talks with fyRoM, which will directly or indirectly be used at the Brussels meeting in a few days", reads the newspaper. According to the analysis, the other two vetoes have gone into history, but had different radical outcomes. Such rights to veto were used by Czech President Vaclav Klaus and Slovenian PM Borut Pahor as means for protection of countries' national interests. "Ethnos" says these two cases are clear to Greece, after Prime Minister George Papandreou said he would block the start of EU-Skopje accession talks, without concessions until the final solution to the name was found. "Americans and European will not put pressure on Skopje to agree on a compromise that is acceptable to Greece. Washington and the European capitals will not do this until they are fully convinced that Athens would not withdraw the veto and not allow Skopje's EU and NATO accession if a solution to the name issue is not found", reads the newspaper. "The trap that the Greek government fears is the fact that Europeans could put pressure and force Athens to allow the beginning of accession negotiations while promising that the accession process would not be completed until the name problem is resolved. The acceptance of this offer would be a disastrous mistake", underlines "Ethnos". |
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