Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte will visit Macedonia on Wednesday. The unusual announcement comes a day before the scheduled vote of no confidence in Zoran Zaev.

Zaev’s officials and supporters in the media were publicly calling on international officials to come to his aid in the growing political crisis. Dutch diplomacy supported Zaev’s Colored Revolution he used to to grab power, to the extent that a former Dutch Ambassador to Macedonia was guest of honor on Zaev’s rallies. But it is also highly skeptical of bringing new countries to the EU. Zaev’s failed bet that the humiliating concessions with national identity issues will open Macedonia’s EU accession talks is a big part of the drop in support for his SDSM party, that brought him Government on the verge of collapse.