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...face of the European Union's nascent common foreign policy is High Representative Javier Solana, the former NATO Secretary-General. Before heading off to Macedonia for more troubleshooting last Friday, he spoke about transatlantic relations with Brussels bureau chief James Graff...
...measure of the turmoil in Macedonia's government that every new proposal to bring an end to the country's three-month-old insurgency ends up triggering more problems. Last week, E.U. foreign policy chief Javier Solana thought he had worked out a way to hold Macedonia's fragile "national unity" government together. But shortly after he left the capital, Skopje, a key ethnic Albanian party backed out of the deal...
...Short of war, there is not much deeper it can go. Despite continuing diplomatic efforts by Solana and others, Macedonia's political parties seem no closer to settling their differences. The longer the fighting lasts, the less the chance of compromise...
...government formulated a plan and as TV cameras watched from a distance. In that vacuum, events spilled easily into farce. Loyalists, mostly elderly socialists for whom Milosevic represents patriotic Serbian ideals, built themselves a bonfire to ward off the chill, scrawling the names of their imagined enemies--Solana (Javier, the NATO Secretary-General), Klark (Wesley Clark, the retired U.S. general) and Monika (Lewinsky, presumably)--on logs before hurling them into the blaze. The supporters "love him with their heart and soul, not with Western money like these new leaders," hissed a spokeswoman--dressed in leopard coat and tight jeans...
...Macedonia the lead actor for now is the European Union. The full panoply of the E.U.'s unwieldy foreign policy apparatus was funneled into Skopje last week: High Representative Javier Solana, Commissioner Chris Patten, Swedish Foreign Minister Anna Lindh and Bodo Hombach, special coordiNATOr of the Stability Pact. All left behind strong messages of support for the Macedonian government, while urging it to speed up its desultory efforts to meet longstanding Albanian demands for better political and economic standing in the country...