Following months of refusal, right-wing Macedonian President Gjorge Ivanov has given the leader of the Social Democrat SDSM party, Zoran Zaev, a mandate to form a coalition government – a decision welcomed by the EU. Until now Ivanov has refused to give Zaev a mandate, believing that a government composed of the SDSM and Albanian parties would damage the national unity of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM).
"We welcome the decision of President Ivanov to give the...