Seems the Kosovo situation is morphing again, with the province intending to secede from the rump state of Serbia. This time, it seems, there won't be a war. But politics is driven by economics, and the EU is pushing for the fractured states to join them: "Serbia's per-capita gross domestic product of $3,000 had hardly improved since 1989, while Slovenia, which joined the EU in 2004, had seen its per-capita GDP jump from $5,000 in 1989 to $23,000 last year."Rico says it only took them eighty years to get back to the same place, ignoring the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the First World War, the Second World War, and the Cold War...
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