Austria in Favour of Initiating Accession Negotiations with Macedonia

Politics ♦ Published: December 12, 2012; 11:53 ♦ (Vindobona)

Austria´s State Secretary Reinhold Lopatka speaks at General Affairs Council in Brussels.

Austria in Favour of Initiating Accession Negotiations with Macedonia / Picture: © Wikimedia Commons / By MacedonianBoy ([1]) [CC BY-SA 3.0]

“The time is ripe for the EU to embark on accession negotiations with Macedonia. It would be a mistake if the rapprochement of a country to the EU were to be blocked due to a dispute over a name”, State Secretary Lopatka said during the negotiation of EU expansion at ministerial level. “The European Commission has suggested no fewer than four times to initiate negotiations as…