- Macedonia is one of the first countries to benefit from the investment fund of 10 billion dollars for Central and Eastern Europe that the Chinese government announced last year, said Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski before the heads of government attending the summit “Central and Eastern Europe and China” that took place in Bucharest, Romania, Tuesday. Gruevski and the other 15 prime ministers of the countries of this part of Europe clearly said that China had open doors to capture the European market through this region. While Serbia requested a loan for building a water channel from Belgrade to Thessaloniki, and Romania for a nuclear power plant, Macedonia has already been approved a loan of 580 million euros from the Chinese Exim Bank for building the two highways from Skopje and Stip and from Kicevo to Ohrid.