Dokos: New pressure regarding the name is possible, but not a dramatic turn of events

Thanos Dokos, the head of the Greek Foreign Policy think tank ELIAMEP, predicts status quo for the negotiations on the name dispute in 2015.
In an article for “Kathimerini”, Dokos notes that, because of internal political developments in Greece and Macedonia, the name dispute is likely to continue to patter.
Dokos notes that new pressure is possible, but he doesn’t expect that it would cause any problems for Greece.
– Dramatic developments regarding the name dispute with FYROM due to the internal political situation in both countries are not expected. There will be growing pressure to address the problem, but it is likely to be pressure that we can handle, at least in the near future, because immediate expansion of NATO is considered, nor the appropriate processes for EU enlargement are accelerated – writes Dokos in “Kathimerini”.
Generally, Dokos estimates that, this years as well, Greece will have major challenges and pressure regarding its foreign policy and it is expected, although politically weakened by elections and political instability, to react about classical foreign policy issues such as the name dispute, relations with Turkey and the Cyprus issue, but it also has to be active about problems with Russia and the Ukrainian crisis, military hotspots in Syria, Iraq and the problems with Libya.