What about germans living in the eastern areas of the former German Empire? Join the EU and learn how Just don't care too much about greek mourning. Finally they will get some "incentives" from the EU to accept this name
I think that they want to avoid problems with Russia, as Putin had said that he don't like the NATO getting closer to Russia's borders. As far as I know president Bush agrees the idea of admitting Ukraine and Georgia, so the problem sits in the Europe. Let's not forget that Europe is dependent on russian gas. So that is a strong argument for not upseting Russia.