Macedonia
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Macedonia is a landlocked country in southeastern Europe, to the north of Greece, with a population of two million and capital city of Skopje.[1] The country resulted from the breakup of Yugoslavia in the early 1990s, the other countries from the breakup being Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Slovenia, and Croatia. [2]
In 2005, European leaders agreed that the country should be a candidate for membership to the European Union. In 2006, NATO said that the country can expect to be invited to join NATO in 2008. [3]
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Media
The BBC says of the country's media:
- The constitution guarantees freedom of speech and access to information. State television, which has three national channels, faces competition from private networks.
- Some journalists reacted to the 2001 uprising by ethnic Albanian guerrillas by using what Radio Free Europe described as less-than-responsible language and words of outright hate. But the media reported fairly responsibly overall, according to the OSCE [Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe] representative on media freedom.[3][4]
Leaders
- Branko Crvenkovski, President, a former centre-left prime minister and leader of the Social Democratic Union
- Nikola Gruevski, Prime minister, leader of the centre-right VMRO-DPMNE
Resources
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References
External articles
- Oana Lungescu, "EU warns Macedonia over entry", BBC, February 9, 2007.
External resources
- Timeline: Macedonia, BBC, accessed March 2008.
