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North Macedonia

North Macedonia is an official candidate for membership of the European Union.

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  • Candidate country

Relationship with the EU

  1. March 2004Applied for membership
  2. December 2005Candidate status granted
  3. July 2022Accession negotiations opened

Data

GDP per capita in purchasing power standards43

Eurostat, 2025. Scale 0 to 260.

Milestones

  1. 1991Becomes independent. nato.int
  2. 8 April 1993Admitted to the United Nations. un.org
  3. 9 November 1995Joins the Council of Europe. archive.org
  4. December 2005Granted EU candidate status. enlargement.ec.europa.eu
  5. 15 February 2019Officially renamed Republic of North Macedonia after the Prespa Agreement with Greece. nato.int
  6. 27 March 2020Joins NATO. nato.int
  7. July 2022First intergovernmental conference on EU accession. enlargement.ec.europa.eu

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