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...YUGOSLAVIA Uranium Traces U.N. scientists said they had found areas in Serbia and Montenegro where the soil and air is still contaminated by depleted uranium, three years after nato bombing in the region. The U.N. Environment Program said there was a risk of groundwater contamination from five sites in the Presevo Valley and at Cape Arza...
After ten years of often violent and convulsive episodes, Yugoslavia appears set to quietly slip away ? almost as if the country died in its sleep. On 14 March, representatives of Yugoslavia and its two republics, Serbia and Montenegro, announced that they had agreed to a new, looser structure for Yugoslavia along with a new name for the federation ? Serbia and Montenegro. The decision must now be ratified by the Yugoslav, Serbian, and Montenegrin parliaments. the whole story...
Apparently, it is no secret that there has not been any real “end” of Yugoslavia. This change just recasts yesterday’s Yugoslavia as today’s dual-republic—recognizing the differences between its peoples in name only. Of course, this begs the question as to why the West, particularly the EU, is so overjoyed at the recent turn of events...
...EU’s enthusiasm for the new confederation is simple: a “united” Serbia and Montenegro 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?...
...what does the end of Yugoslavia actually mean? Above all, it highlights the increasing power of the EU. For now, the union and its Western allies have temporarily avoided the costs of a war. The EU is buying itself time by promising the Montenegrins that a new era is upon them. But this most recent move is just fanning latent flames toward independence. After all, the confederation is an impossible project, built upon the much-touted idea that Montenegro, a “separate” republic, would have “equal powers with Serbia.” This...