REGIONAL COOPERATION AND ECONOMIC INTEGRATION

debts present the factors that will not make the “production wheel” stir in the near future.
As long as there is no adequate production, there can be no successful export offer.
The process of European integration is a complex mission for the countries from the
Western Balkan. Therefore they should use the given opportunities within the CEFTA-
2006 in order to facilitate their economic cooperation and integration, and consequently
to this to improve their economic performances and speed up their economic growth. This
is the only way how the countries of the region can achieve their utmost goal to become a
full member into the EU.
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Report on foreign trade of Macedonia 2008
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