So not addressing an issue for fear of 'adding fuel to the fire' is not a solution. On the contrary: This would mean leaving the debate to Orban & his thugs or other servants of Putin and his war criminals. Cui bono?

Apart from that, all governments in the region should closely look at how Berlin & Paris, (backed by 🇺🇸) have just now prevented Kosovo's accession to the Council of Europe by inventing artificial new conditions. Why should anyone in the Western Balkans trust such governments?

This sequenced solution seems reasonable given the mutual mistrust between Skopje and Sofia. Of course, if you are preparing ever new demands against 🇲🇰, you will not agree to such a sequenced solution, as your pyramid scheme of blackmail would not work that way.

Aryeh (Lion in Hebrew), a survivor of the Holocaust in Germany and a leading human rights advocate for more than 50 years: on the ICC & crimes in Gaza.

Bin das erste Mal in der Saison gegen Leverkusen. Wär doch zu schön.

Michael Martens I like your editorial and I am very much ashamed that those of us that agree with you have been incapable of changing the line of the GER government.