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BY ALAN OSBORN
AS recently as 1989 Yugoslavia was the richest and most westernised country in eastern and central Europe and arguably among the more politically stable of them. But then came the collapse. The ethnic fighting of the early 1990s led to breakaways by Slovenia, Croatia, Macedonia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina as independent states in 1992, leaving Serbia and Montenegro as the “Federal Republic of Yugoslavia” under Slobodan Milosevic.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN ANTIMONY mine in Macedonia will be a focus of an international effort to prevent cross-border environmental threats in south-eastern Europe. The Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), the UN Development Programme (UNDP) and the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) have agreed to cooperate on managing pollution risks from the Lojane Mine, which has also been a source of chromium.…

Keith Nuthall
GOVERNMENTS in south-eastern Europe have agreed it is “fundamentally important to increase and intensify interregional cooperation in air transport.” Such work, which would cover airport operations and air traffic control will be written into a detailed memorandum of understanding, with a detailed and timetabled work programme.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
MIGROS Turk AS, Turkey’s largest food retailer in Turkey, has received a US$8.3 million loan from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development to create a food hypermarket and mall in Macedonia.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
WHEN the European Union (EU) signed up to an Agreement on Textiles and Clothing at the World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) last Uruguay Round that foresaw the scrapping of import quotas at the start of 2005, it is hard to imagine it viewing the deal as a way to boost production in knitted products.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Agency for Reconstruction has released a plan to help Macedonia’s food industry seize western export markets by boosting quality, upgrading food industry “infrastructure” and toughening laws on “standardisation, food safety, and animal and plant inspection”.…

Keith Nuthall
THE 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 sector, tapping western export markets. The country has a wine-making tradition, still exhibits a (former) communist command economy inspired indifference to quality.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE 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.…

BY MARK ROWE
MENTION Albania and money, and the image that comes to mind is of the extraordinary pyramid schemes that gripped the country in the mid-1990s as the country stepped out into a post-Stalinist dawn. Albanians poured their assets into the schemes, with an enthusiasm that was as remarkable as it was misguided.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development is lending Macedonian baked-goods producer Zitoluks AD Euro 8 million to help it expand, refurbish its existing outlets.…