In March, the European Council should allow Skopje and Tirana to start negotiations, ex-Greek PM Alexis Tsipras urged during his address in the French Senate. He asked how it possible was for the EU to credibly support the prospect of the resolution of international disputes when it couldn’t support a European country like Macedonia that had already resolved a European dispute. “The cancelling, or even the postponing, of enlargement will have serious consequences on the stability of the region that also the EU will have to deal with. In 2014, when President Juncker announced the freezing of the accession process, the region fell into instability for years. One crisis followed another. In Albania, North Macedonia, Bosnia, and Montenegro,” Tsipras added.