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Skopje - instability could negatively influence Macedonia's EU progress report in November (Photo: Wikipedia)

EU worried as Macedonia crisis looms

EU officials have expressed concern over looming instability in candidate state Macedonia, with ethnic Albanians set to challenge the newly-established government led by centre-right leader Nikola Gruevski.

EU diplomats said the bloc and its member states are watching the recent developments in the Western Balkan country "very closely," urging "all sides to behave constructively" and not provoke any escalation.

"It would be wrong to say that we [the EU] are not worried," the sourc...

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Skopje - instability could negatively influence Macedonia's EU progress report in November (Photo: Wikipedia)

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