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...yesterday, EU Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn pointed out the “turning point” in Serbian policy by allowing alleged war criminals from the 90s, Ratko Mladic and Radovan Karadzic, to be tried for crimes against humanity in The Hague. The EU’s stance on Kosovo??s independence is as clear as their insistence on prosecuting war criminals...
...were to be transformed into electrical energy, it would be enough to light an entire city,” Tadic said of past strife, quoting Nikola Tesla, whom Tadic called “the man Serbia and Croatia celebrate together.” Tadic argued that giving independence to Kosovo??a region in Serbia that underwent ethnic cleansing under the Slobodan Miloševic regime—is not a viable idea and is detrimental to democratic consolidation in the region. Mesic, in a lengthy speech about the history of Kosovo, insisted that a solution must be found...
...Coalition partners who put their reputation on the line. The matter is not simply one of fairness, as Powell phrased it. It’s a matter of vision. Just as it was inconceivable to let a Milosevic-sympathethizer have a say in the original stages of Kosovo??s reconstruction, allowing French diplomats who tacitly reinforced an oppressive Iraqi regime to control the new Iraq would be a political move made in bad faith...
...plot follows accordingly, setting peace-loving L.T. Hallam (a mountain man reminiscent of Jack London, played by Tommy Lee Jones) on the trail of Aaron Hallam (Benicio del Toro), when the latter—a Special Forces superman scarred by his service in Kosovo??goes on a killing rampage in the suburbs of Portland, Oregon. Violently stabbing and dissecting his victims, Hallam is motivated by “war stress” tinged with a strange sort of militant vegetarianism (“Do you know that 5 billion chickens will be slaughtered this year...
...characteristically optimistic style the hope that Serbs and ethnic Albanians can reach a maximum of common ground and build upon the common interest to join the E.U. If the countries of the Balkans choose the other path—chain disintegration of borders in the region starting with Kosovo??s independence—then they must suffer the consequences and say goodbye to Europe, warned the premier. Serbia needs reformists because they have the knowledge and ability to rebuild destroyed bridges and reconnect Serbia to her neighbors. For example, Djindjic’s team is working to build...