The comedy of Greece's so-called Balkan policy must end at some point. Balkan policy is non-existent. Greece, which until a few years ago was the "engine of the Balkans", in terms of their approach to Euro-Atlantic structures, is completely absent and disreputable.

On the other hand, Turkey has found space and dominates the Balkans, as last week it organized, under Hakan Fidan, a Conference of the Western Balkan Countries in Turkey.

The latest example of this farce that is characterized as "Balkan politics" was the visit of the Skopje Foreign Minister to Athens. Mr. Gerapetritis mentioned at one point in his statement the need to implement the Prespa Agreement - and that was all.

The government, with its own sole responsibility and due to its inability to develop a comprehensive Balkan strategy, is contributing to the amplification of the negative consequences of the Prespa Agreement and instead of utilizing the potential advantages, it is annihilating them.

It would be more honest for Mr. gerapetritis to declare that the government is no longer interested in preventing skopje and Its leadership from Registering the name "Macedonia", rather than pretending to be the opposite.

Now, the entire leadership of the neighboring country refers to "Macedonia" and the "Macedonian nation" and no one reacts, except, perhaps, for a "friendly remark" by Mr. Gerapetritis to his Skopje counterpart.

What credibility can Greece have in the Balkans when, after a 33-year diplomatic struggle, in which enormous political and diplomatic capital was wasted, it ends up accepting Skopje's fait accompli?

It accepts its defeat on the issue of using the term "Macedonia", while at the same time Edi Rama mocks the Greek government on all the open issues.

Ministry of Outrage newspaper THE PRESENT