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Mural of ancient Balkan king, Alexander the Great - ethnic Albanians call the nationalist Mr Gruevski "Alexander the II" (Photo: Wikipedia)

EU unfazed by Macedonia ethnic tensions

Former ethnic-Albanian guerrillas are telling the EU that a power grab by the Macedonian majority is threatening the country's stability. But Brussels believes the warning should be taken with a big pinch of salt.

"I am afraid we are heading back to the 1990s when we had hundreds of problems and the EU said Macedonia is an oasis of peace," Agron Buxhaku - the foreign affairs secretary of the largest ethnic-Albanian party, the DUI - told EUobserver during a visit to Brussels last week. <...

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Andrew Rettman is EUobserver's Foreign Affairs Editor. He has been writing about foreign and security affairs for EUobserver since 2005. He is Polish but grew up in the UK. He has also written for The Guardian, The Telegraph, and The Times of London.

Mural of ancient Balkan king, Alexander the Great - ethnic Albanians call the nationalist Mr Gruevski "Alexander the II" (Photo: Wikipedia)

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Andrew Rettman is EUobserver's Foreign Affairs Editor. He has been writing about foreign and security affairs for EUobserver since 2005. He is Polish but grew up in the UK. He has also written for The Guardian, The Telegraph, and The Times of London.

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