Macedonia Premier to Step Down Under Western-brokered Deal

Macedonia's prime minister is due to step down Friday before an early election on April 24, under the timeline of last year's Western-brokered deal to solve a deep political crisis triggered by a wiretapping scandal. Nikola Gruevski has agreed to hand over to a candidate from his conservative VMRO-DPMNE party, who will head a caretaker government. Last July's deal with the country's social-democrat main opposition, following mediation from the European Union and the...

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