European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso (R) speaks next to Macedonian Prime Minister Vlado Buckovski(C) and Commissioner Olli Rehn (L) during a news conference in Skopje February 17, 2006. The tour of Croatia, Serbia-Montenegro, Macedonia, Albania and Bosnia is Barroso's first official visit to the region and precedes a key March 10 assessment by EU foreign ministers of the pace of political and economic reforms there. REUTERS/Ognen Teofilovski