EU makes military debut in shadow of Iraq war SKOPJE, Macedonia (Reuters) - The European Union launched its first military operation Monday, taking over NATO's small peacekeeping mission in Macedonia in a ground-breaking venture overshadowed by the U.S.-led war in Iraq. EU officials have hailed the operation in the ex-Yugoslav republic, where government forces fought Albanian rebels in 2001, as a bright spot in the development of the bloc's common foreign and security policy, at a time of division over Iraq. But the launch of Operation Concordia may draw little international attention because of the massive military action in the...