European Union and FYROM   The way the sentence is now makes no logical sense It literally says  The Former Yugoslav Republic of MacedoniaFYROM has been given official candidate status as of December  under the name Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia If you keep it as Republic of Macedonia as the wiki article is called the sentence makes more logical sense since it would state the EU is using a certain name for the country known as Macedonia And to repeat again the sentence right now makes no logical sense and FYROM should be changed to something that is not the same as Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia