Akritas
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A state that imprisons political opponents as well as journalists who criticize it, accuses anyone who is against it of being a terrorist, does not accept Liberal Democracy (therefore also the independence of the Judiciary), manufactures fakes news, then there is no TRUST in what he asks, ven more so when Turkey asks to extradite journalists and politicians, who have the status of political refugees, as terrorists.Terrorism is actually a legitimate reason for blocking someone from joining a security pact.Imaginary,invented problems with other countries is not.And the only reason the the name was under negotiation in UN was because Greece blocked EU recognition of North Macedonia as a country,using EU and NATO to blackmail and force a name change.Not to mention negotiating with Milosevic about splitting the country until US and Turkey forced Mitsotakis to back off.Talk about friendly and constructive neighbours.
Anyway you missed my point,which wasn't Greece's bullying North Macedonia but EU and NATO's hypocrisy in the cases of Greece and Turkey in which one was ilegally blocking other country's accession to NATO(according to International court of justice) while other one gets vilified for having terrorism concerns.
The issue of the constitutional name of North Macedonia as and the ethnicity of the local Slavs and Bulgarians, started in the 1940s, is not something new, nor was it invented in 1991 or 2004. The fact that Milosevic asked to split this Republic and Mitotakis senior refused it, you do not mention.
No USA and Turkey intervened, the reason was one: what is the reason to occupy a territory where 99% of its population is hostile to you?