The Economist Intelligence Unit expects the re-elected governing coalition of
the VMRO—DPMNE and the ethnic Albanian DUI to serve its term to 2018．
Relations between ethnic(Slavic—speaking)Macedonians and ethnic A1-
banians are likely to remain problematic and liable to occasional rhetorical—
and sometimes physical-flare-ups，but areturn to armed conflict is unlikely．

Highlights 7

Political outlook 8

Economic policy outlook 10

Economic forecast 11

Annual data and forecast 14

Quarterly data 15

Monthly data 16

Annual trends charts 18

Monthly trends charts 19

Comparative economic indicators 20

Basic data 21

Political structure 22

Politics 23

Economy 28

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