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...accession process because of a border dispute with its neighbor, Slovenia. Montenegro, another flourishing Balkan state, is currently trying to apply for EU membership, but the current global economic state has made the EU leadership cautious about further expansion. Macedonia’s bid, although weaker than Croatia??€™s or Montenegro’s, cannot move forward because Greece argues that Macedonia’s name suggests an aspiration to the Greek province of the same name...

Author: By Ellen C. Bryson | Title: Give the Balkans a Chance | 3/11/2009 | See Source »

...they call themselves Croats) began singing loud Catholic folk music, waving red-and-white checkerboard flags, wearing shirts of the same colors, passing close to Serb military men who didn’t look at all amused by these outbursts. The same flag remembered largely as the symbol of Croatia??€™s fascist regime during World War II, under which proper Croats made refugees out of some 300,000 Serbs less than 100 miles away, was now being waved in the faces of Bosnian Serbs, whose reputation is well-publicized in America and elsewhere courtesy of Slobodan Milosevic, Radovan...

Author: By Travis R. Kavulla, | Title: The Pilgrimage | 7/11/2003 | See Source »

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