EU AND BALKANS

The EU must show the Balkans they still have a chance of joining 

By Charlemagne Source

I, personally, do not share the writer's opinion on the subject. As a representative of F.R. Yugoslavia I was in EC in 2001. At that time the policy of EU was that the countries of the Balkan's were to enter EU all at once. That was the 7th Region in EC, and the general idea was that countries of the Balkans were stimulated to helping each other. During a welcoming cocktail I was talking with a French guy, some official, from EC. I told him that in reality Croatia was gonna be the last Balkan's state that would be accepted into EU, and for the rest of us, particularly for Serbia, the door of EU would be closed forever. He told me that I was wrong etc., etc., however it was crystal clear at that time ... and still is, for anyone with the common sense. Nobody wants Serbia in EU. Firstly, EU itself. Serbia has no value for EU, no economic, nor strategic value. There is the only one strategic point they are interested in - the town of Niš, and that goes for Germans, not to elaborate here. Serbian political "elite" has no interest to join EU, because they couldn't continue to plunder and do whatever they want in Serbia. For that reason they publicly claim that "EU has no alternative", but under the radar they cunningly through media encourage anti-EU voices and movements in Serbia. Most portion of that "elite" are descendants of communist leaders. They have had the best starting point in taking power and robbing Serbia when "transition" came "to town". For them the best position is to be in a state of eternal waiting to enter EU. Than the political situation would be similar to one that was exploited by their communist fathers and grandfathers - suffer now, scarifies in Socialism (before EU membership time) to create a happy life for your offspring in the future in Communism (full EU membership).  So, my dear Charlemagne let's hear what you gotta say, but I'm telling you in advance - you are wrong! Nobody has interest for Serbia to join the EU ..... That goes for Bosnia and Herzegovina, too. Montenegro, Albania and F.Y.R. of Macedonia, are quite a different story. They are directly under American "protection" ... and they are "Can't touch this" for the EU. And not to forget one very important difference. I do not, as every honorable Serb, person, and honest state that obey and respect the International legislative, recognize "Kosovo" as an independent state. I, personally, as a descendant of a Serb officer at Thessaloniki Front during WWI, who fought shoulder to shoulder with French against injustice, I am very sorry that Charlemagne who is French recognize false "state" of Kosovo that is the result of a brute force, lies and injustice.

HOW DISTORTED COULD BE THE VIEW OF A POWERFUL OR WE ARE TALKING PURE INSOLENCE, HERE?

EWB Interview, Janusz Bugajski: Montenegro in NATO an example for Serbia

Interwiev  Janusz BUGAJSKI Source European Western Balkans

An interview aroused great attention, yesterday, in Serbian media. It was EWB interview with one Janusz Bugajski. At the glance, according to his name JB is a Polack! According to the interview, he is a lobbyist. He seems to be a NATO spokesman. If he was like another Polack, Zbigniew Kazimierz Brzezinski, could be an emphasized American wannabe, but Polack in the hearth, and not to forget, a political hawk. That is all knowledge of mine about this person. So, who's the guy?  Janusz Bugajski was born September 23, 1954, in Nantwich, Cheshire. He came to U.S. in 1986. JB is a Senior Fellow at the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA) in Washington DC and host of “Bugajski Hour” and “Bugajski Time” television shows broadcast in the Balkans. He is the former Director of New European Democracy Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). He has served as a consultant on East European affairs for various U.S. organizations and government agencies as for the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the United States Department of Defense, the International Republican Institute (IRI), the Free Trade Union Institute (AFL-CIO), the International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX), and BBC television in London. He testifies regularly before the U.S. Congress. He chairs the South-Central Europe area studies program at the Foreign Service Institute of the U.S. Department of State. Who want more, visit Wikipedia, for me the guy is spook, but a kind of a public spook, everybody knows about. Now, about the interview. JB is representing a typical approach of the mighty and primitive. A general idea is - "We, the people, are entitled by might and crude force to stick our nose in everybody's home. We, and nobody else. However, if somebody dared to do the same, he is meddling in the interior matters of all the countries of the Western Balkans"!   The other typical American view he is advocating is that everything is material. "We live in the material World, and I'm a material girl", as Madonna used to sing. For that matter JB has a firm view - "I cannot imagine any Serbian officer wanting to be more closely aligned with the Russian military – a lot of it is obsolete, and the funding now is really going to go down, you are going to see real problems in Russia – rather than to be a part of the most modern military organisation in the world. It does not make sense to me." Of course it doesn't make sense to you. But it does make sense for us. The general idea " if Montenegro becomes more successful and attracts more investments. The NATO membership itself is another stepping stone towards EU membership – I think all those things serve as a potential example to Serbian citizens" is wrong. JB you have learnt nothing. You know shit about Serbs. You are judging us according to our politicians, and they are, by far, the worst part of Serbia. You should know that. They have been handpicked by you people. Some of them trained and paid, as well. Do you really thing that the handful of dollars and an example of poor Montenegro gonna "motivate us by demonstrating its progress as a Western state, not long after regaining independence. That itself is a momentum for NATO in the Western Balkans because Montenegro can serve now as an example for other countries, that you too can join if you do the hard work, fulfill the conditions and meet the requirements.”  Meet more conditions and requirements? Get out of here! Unlike disoriented Montenegrins, we have roots, proudness, courage, self-confidence, to chose the side of freedom, justice, rightness. Learn from how we humiliated the whole NATO alliance in 1999, though it costed us dearly. Learn from history. We've never missed. You have bombed, occupied, harassed, and try to put down the wrong nation. Montenegro, or no Montenegro, we gonna never forget your terrorist attack on Serbs, both in Bosnia and in Serbia, and wherever else they were. Particularly, because up to that moment we've considered America as friendly country and an Ally from two World Wars. Your conduct at Western Balkans and wider will stay in infamy for ever, and ever. As one of our brilliant actors Zoran Radmilovic said: "When a man dies, he does not know that he had died and it was not difficult to him. It's hard to others. The same is true when a person is stupid!"