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Macedonians/Citizens of North Macedonia: c. 2.0 million [345] Citizens of the Republic of North Macedonia irrespective of ethnicity Macedonians (Greeks) c. 2.6 million plus diaspora [352] An ethnic Greek regional group, also referred to as Greek Macedonians. Ancient Macedonians: Unknown: A tribe of antiquity on the periphery of the Greek world
North Macedonia (then named Macedonia) has been a candidate to join the European Union (EU) since 2005. The use of the country name "Macedonia" was the object of a dispute with neighbouring Greece between 1991 and 2019, resulting in a Greek veto against EU and NATO accession talks, which lasted from 2008 to 2019.
North Macedonia (/ ˌ m æ s ɪ ˈ d oʊ n i ə / MASS-ih-DOH-nee-ə), [c] officially the Republic of North Macedonia, [d] is a landlocked country in Southeast Europe.It shares land borders with Greece to the south, Albania to the west, Bulgaria to the east, Kosovo [e] to the northwest and Serbia to the north. [8]
Parliamentary elections were held in North Macedonia on 8 May 2024. The slow pace of EU integration and corruption were the main issues during the campaign. [1]The right-wing opposition coalition led by the nationalist VMRO-DPMNE party decisively won the election receiving 45% of the vote and 58 seats which were three short of an outright majority.
23 January – A court in Skopje orders the release of four VMRO-DPMNE officials, namely former Assembly of North Macedonia speaker Trajko Veljanovski, former ministers Spiro Ristovski and Mile Janakieski and former Administration for Security and Counterintelligence chief Vladimir Atanasovski, who were convicted in 2021 and imprisoned for their role in organizing the 2017 storming of the ...
The flags of the European Union and North Macedonia. North Macedonia began its formal process of rapprochement with the European Union in 2000, by initiating negotiations about the EU's Stabilisation and Association Process, and it became the first non-EU country in the Balkans to sign the Stabilisation and Association Agreement (SAA), on 9 April 2001 in Luxembourg.
A large part of Macedonia became southern Serbia, including the territory of what today is the Republic of North Macedonia, and southern Macedonia became northern Greece. Greece almost doubled its territory and population size and its northern frontiers remain today, more or less the same since the Balkan Wars.
The denar (Macedonian: денар; paucal: [clarification needed] denari / денари; abbreviation: den / ден; ISO code: MKD) is the currency of North Macedonia.Though subdivided into one hundred deni (дени), coins with a denomination of less than one denar have not been in use since 2013.