Greece tells Macedonia it must ‘accept European values’

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Series Details 23.01.14
Publication Date 23/01/2014
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Evangelos Venizelos, the foreign minister of Greece, which held the EU Presidency, January-June 2014, said on the 21 January 2014 that the main obstacle to Macedonia’s EU membership was the country’s lack of respect for European values.

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