Macedonia welcomes minority rights plan
President Trajkovski says conditions are now right for fair and democratic elections in Macedonia after a minority rights deal is reached.

Macedonia: Step back from the abyss
Doubts hang over a donors' conference for Macedonia after the parliament in Skopje fails to pass reforms on local government.

Macedonia's landscape of fear
Foreign aid-workers bringing relief to Macedonia's rural north find shattered communities living in fear of the future, whatever their allegiances.

The Kosovo legacy
As Nato curbs ethnic Albanian extremism around Kosovo, Jonathan Eyal argues that it will be unable to stop the political source of the rebellion.