Macedonian community development organizations help many Romani youngsters like this girl attend preschool. Photo courtesy of the Sumnal Association, www.sumnal.org.

In Macedonia, Dividends on Efforts to Keep Roma in School

By Daniel Petrovski on March 4, 2013

Progress is slow but steady as the government puts an overdue emphasis on Roma advancement.

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Ethnic Albanian organizations announce demonstration; in the background a smaller item from the 'Skopje 2014' project.

Fear & Loathing in Macedonia

By Uffe Andersen on November 23, 2012

Today, there´s no war in Macedonia, and there hasn´t been for more than eleven years. So why do the people who fled their homes a few kilometers from the capital during the armed conflict between ethnic Albanian insurgents and government forces in 2001 still live in ‘temporary housing’? The refugees themselves and the people who today live in Aracinovo [...]

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A Macedonian army reservists tank crew at the battle for the village of Aracinovo. Photo by Military Journal/Wikimedia Commons.

Macedonia’s Cooling-Off Period

By Ljubica Grozdanovska Dimishkovska on November 7, 2012

The country tries again to devise a single history curriculum for its different ethnicities, but one subject remains too hot to handle.

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Macedonia

Macedonia has been a candidate country for EU membership since 2005. The country signed a Stabilisation and Association Agreement (SAA) with the EU already in 2001. The agreement entered into force in April 2004. Macedonia applied for EU membership in 2004 and was granted a candidate status in 2005. In October 2009, the European Commission recommended the opening of accession negotiations with Macedonia. Since December 2009, Macedonian citizens have been able to travel to the countries of the Schengen area visa-free.

Macedonia’s EU bid has been hampered by a dispute with Greece over the country’s name. Athens argues that the name “Macedonia” implies a territorial claim over the northern Greek province of the same name. Macedonia became a member of the United Nations in 1993 under the temporary name of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM), which the EU still uses in all official reference to the country.

In Macedonia, Dividends on Efforts to Keep Roma in School

Fear & Loathing in Macedonia

Macedonia’s Cooling-Off Period

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