Word: vojvodina
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...which came only two weeks after the country joined the alliance, Hungarians opened their airspace and air bases to NATO planes. The decision wasn't easy; Hungary was at that time the only NATO member bordering Yugoslavia, and a large population of ethnic Hungarians live in that country's Vojvodina region. "That was a big tick on the positive side of the ledger," says a Western diplomat in Budapest. But then Hungary's brilliance began to fade. Among the criticisms: the sorry state of the country's troops and matériel, the lack of transparency in the way military...
...undermines the Montenegrin independence movement. Although these secessionists constitute a marginal number of the 600,000 Montenegrins in the former Republic of Yugoslavia, they are, nevertheless, an incendiary force. And increasingly the West has feared that they might start a fire in the Balkans, particularly among the Hungarians in Vojvodina or the ethnic Albanians in Kosovo, who have twice the ethnic representation of the Montenegrins. By aligning Montenegro once again with Serbia, the EU can maintain the status quo—a fate much preferred to separation, which would come only with war and further hand-wringing...