MACEDONIA REFORM
April 1st, 2004
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE EUROPEAN Union (EU) organisation tasked with reviving the war-damaged south-eastern Balkans has released a plan to move Macedonia's wine industry from a bulk producer of cheap wine towards a higher-end standards, tapping western export markets. The country has a wine-making tradition, but since the rise (and fall) of communism, it has been characterised by a command economy inspired indifference to quality. The plan, issued by the European Agency for Reconstruction (EAR), aims to change this, enabling Macedonia to exploit tariff-free access to ...
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