A dangerous name dispute

Nikola Gruevski, Prime Minister of the Republic of Macedonia, a former Yugoslavian republic, last week called for the recognition of the Slav-Macedonian minority in Greece, triggering an escalation in the name dispute between Greece and Macedonia. The Greek daily blames the Macedonian prime minister for this impasse: "This 38-year-old arrogant and nationalist prime minister ... threatens to destroy the precarious balance in the Balkans. ... Gruevski is trying to widen the [political] agenda with Greece either in order to ... force a concession in the name dispute or because he believes that those countries that are sensitive to minority issues in Europe and America will support him ... in his campaign. ... Should the latter be the case, Gruevski is walking on thin ice by trying to create problems where there are none and open wounds that Europe had healed long ago. ... Gruevski is turning into a troublemaker in the Balkans."

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