11 January 2008

Remember that war?

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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