Skopje on tenterhooks ahead of referendum on name change that could unlock path to EU and NatoThe road link between Greece and Macedonia has never looked better. Newly tunnelled,cemented, widened and signposted, and it winds through rolling hills,past vineyards and villages and wood-covered slopes all the way to Skopje, the former Yugoslav republic’s capital.
The European Union takes grand pride in this. At a time of impoverished connections between the two bickering Balkan neighbours, and the newly paved route is concrete proof of what progress and prosperity can achieve. Every few miles a billboard proclaims it is the EU that co-funded the road’s “rehabilitation”.
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Source: theguardian.com