Macedonia [FYROM]
No significant geopolitical news flagged for Macedonia [FYROM] today.
Country basics
- Population
- 1.8M
- Capital
- Skopje
- Currency
- MKD
- Head of state
- Gordana Siljanovska-Davkova
- Government
- parliamentary republic
North Macedonia is a small, landlocked Balkan state that sits at a regional crossroads bordering Greece, Bulgaria, Serbia, Kosovo, and Albania. After resolving its long-running name dispute with Greece via the 2018 Prespa Agreement, it joined NATO in 2020 and remains an EU candidate, though accession has been slowed by bilateral disputes—most recently Bulgarian objections tied to history, language, and minority issues. It is a parliamentary republic with a largely ceremonial president (Gordana Siljanovska-Davkova) and an executive prime minister (Hristijan Mickoski of the VMRO-DPMNE party); a significant ethnic Albanian minority makes inter-ethnic power-sharing and the legacy of the 2001 Ohrid Framework Agreement enduring fault lines for any news reader to track.