Go to the Content Thursday, 9 February 2012
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| 1. Divisive Macedonian | July 28, 2011 |
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Macedonians either love him or loathe him. To his detractors, Nikola Gruevski, who was today (28 July) scheduled to be confirmed as prime minister for a third term, is... |
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| 2. Not a routine election | June 4, 2011 |
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As Macedonians go to the polls - again - this weekend, the EU has to be prepared for a range of outcomes. Macedonia is bracing itself for elections tomorrow (5 June) -... |
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| 3. Commission support likely to be ignored | November 4, 2010 |
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Next week, the European Commission will recommend that the member states begin membership talks with Macedonia. The Commission did the same last year without success, and... |
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| 4. More than a Macedonian name-game | July 29, 2010 |
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There is more at stake for Macedonia than just its name. Macedonia has been a candidate for membership of the European Union since December 2005, but has been prevented by... |
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| 5. Tread softly, for you tread on my eggshells | April 22, 2010 |
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Persecution, prosperity, paranoia and provocation – a last word on the Greece-Macedonia name dispute. A useful test for an outsider trying to analyse an argument is to... | |
| 6. Time to end the Balkans' most tedious dispute | April 1, 2010 |
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The ‘Country That Needs Help' should, finally, reach an agreement with the ‘Country That Can't Be Named'. In the headlines about Europe's economic woes, one country... | |
| 7. Untying the Macedonian knot | December 10, 2009 |
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A proposal good enough to end the dispute over the name of the 'former Yugoslav republic of Macedonia'? In October the European Commission recommended opening negotiations... | |
| 8. A needless addition to an encyclopaedia of tensions | October 15, 2009 |
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A book sends identity politics in south-eastern Europe into overdrive and treads roughly on sensitive toes. It is normally hard to get excited about encyclopaedias. Indeed,... | |
| 9. Meeting the benchmarks, bogged down in semantics | October 8, 2009 |
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It may take a name change to get Macedonia closer to EU membership. Macedonia – known as “the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia” to European Union bureaucrats, for... |
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| 10. An overly comfortable limbo | October 24, 2008 |
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Like Greece and Macedonia itself, the EU is too willing to accept Macedonia's state of limbo. To be ‘the Republic of Macedonia' and continue a decades-long dispute with... | |
| 11. Gruevksi's gamble | June 23, 2008 |
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The shadow cast by the violence of Macedonia's elections is not as deep as some think – but the country's prospects for EU membership are darkening.
Macedonia's prime... |
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| 12. Greece threatens to veto Macedonia's NATO bid | March 27, 2008 |
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NATO leaders meeting in Bucharest next week (2-4 April) will offer membership to Albania and Croatia. But Macedonia will receive the same offer only if it meets Greek... | |
| 13. FYROM here to eternity | February 7, 2008 |
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Is a name a precondition for becoming a member of the EU or NATO? What about a name that is a legal formulation almost like a number, or a negative along the lines of ‘the... | |
| 14. Greece's pink unicorns threaten Balkan prosperity | November 29, 2007 |
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For anyone who cares about peace in the Balkans, few things matter more than keeping intact the country most of the world calls the ‘Republic of Macedonia'. Its perilous... | |
| 15. The Integrator | October 19, 2006 |
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A few years ago the Macedonian government realised that being a small, poor, Balkan country with serious ethnic problems was not exactly a winning ticket in the race for... | |
| 16. Macedonia waits in the wings | December 21, 2005 |
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Pity the poor Macedonians. Government ministers were gathered on Friday evening (16 December) at the home of the prime minister ready to celebrate the EU's decision to grant... | |
| 17. Macedonia's EU entry rests on mayors | November 17, 2005 |
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Last week the European Commission produced a favourable opinion on the application for EU membership from Macedonia. Yet it seemed in no hurry for negotiations to begin,... | |
| 18. Commission positive on Macedonia's EU bid | November 3, 2005 |
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The Commission is to give next Wednesday (9 November) a largely positive assessment of Macedonia's readiness to start membership talks with the EU. Following the country's... | |
| 19. Greeks should lay off Macedonia (and the raki) | May 26, 2005 |
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The Eurovision Song Contest is a rare chance for ordinary Europeans to show their shared appreciation of cheesy music and tinselly smiles. There were some nice notes of... | |
| 20. Skopje attacks Commission's Balkans plan | November 25, 1999 |
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THE Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) is warning that its reform efforts could be jeopardised if EU governments insist that the Balkan states must meet new... | |
