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North Macedonia’s new prime minister Hristijan Mickoski started his first day in office Monday following a late-night parliamentary vote, likely setting the country on a collision course with EU neighbours Greece and Bulgaria.

Mounting frustration over the lack of EU progress helped Mickoski’s tough-talking nationalist party, the VMRO-DPMNE, crush the more emollient centre-left coalition government in May’s national elections.

Following the win, new president Gordana Siljanovska-Davkova put the region on notice when she pointedly called the…