MACEDONIA FACTORY
October 1st, 2003
BY MARK ROWEA FORMER tobacco factory is embroiled in a dispute over the expansion of a university in Macedonia. A processing plant formerly owned by the country's tobacco major Makedonica Tabak, had been brought by two businessmen who subsequently offered it for free to the Albanian language University of Tetovo, (of Tetovo city). The institution indicated it was keen to take up the offer but has been dissuaded from doing so by an intervention from the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe and the local offices of NATO and the European Union. They ...
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