The strategy of the World Bank for Partnership with the Republic of Macedonia over the next four years stipulates that the country receives 220 to 300 million euros depending on the rate at which reforms are conducted.

Fostering the economic growth and subduing unemployment are the crucial issues of the strategy for assistance from 2007 to 2010 that the Bank presented to the Government on Monday.

At the Monday meeting, the Macedonian negotiating team headed by Deputy Prime Minister Zoran Stavreski and the representatives of the World Bank's mission headed by the Director of the World Bank's Skopje-based headquarters, Sandra Bloemenkamp, jointly defined the priorities.