The Macedonian doomsday machine
By Edward Lucas - 21.02.2013 / 03:50 CET
Macedonia's problems are festering, in part because the EU is failing to take a tougher line with Greece and Bulgaria
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THE OPEN-ENDED CANDIDACY Štefan Füle (left), the European commissioner for enlargement, pictured with Nikola Gruevski, Macedonia's prime minister, in Skopje in somewhat more optimistic times last September. REUTERS
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