2008 Bucharest NATO summit

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The 2008 Bucharest Summit was a NATO summit organized in the Palace of the Parliament, Bucharest, Romania on 2 – 4 April 2008. Among other business, Croatia and Albania were invited to join the Alliance. The Republic of Macedonia (now North Macedonia) was not invited to join NATO due to its ongoing naming dispute with Greece. Georgia and Ukraine had hoped to join the NATO Membership Action Plan, but, while welcoming the two countries’ aspirations for membership and agreeing that "these countries will become members of NATO", the NATO members decided to review their request in December 2008. The summit was also attended by the leaders of Austria, Cyprus, Finland, Ireland, Malta and Sweden countries that are members of the EU but not member of NATO as well as President of the European Commission José Manuel Barroso.

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