Macedonia’s Bicycle

There was an old Bill Cosby bit about an uncle who promised him that he’d get a bicycle for Christmas if he’d just be good.  Bye and bye, the uncle would find some minor transgression as an excuse and tell him that he’d ruined his changes at the bicycle.  Eventually, it dawned on Bill that the uncle never had any intention of buying him a bicycle.

As I explain in my New Atlanticist piece “Macedonia Elections Last Chance for Slim EU Hopes,” Macedonia, or FYROM if you like, is now playing the part of young Cosby with the EU as the mean uncle.

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