The Serbian government’s unwillingness to confront the past seriously as well as delays in undertaking legal and other reforms contributed to a still unsatisfactory human rights situation in 2006. The authorities’ failure to locate Bosnian Serb wartime general Ratko Mladic undermined relations with the European Union and United States, and destabilized the governing coalition, in turn setting back its reform agenda.
This document pretty effectively puts to rest the idea that Kosovo is in any position to govern itself or that it will be any time in the foreseeable future.To this day there are still 70k US military personnel in Germany and 11k in the UK.It should not be hard to understand that the EU will have to have a large presence in Kosovo for many decades to come and start pouring in billions of euros into the regional economies just as the US did with the Marshall Plan after WW2 in order to develop what is now a prosperous Western Europe.The time has come for the developed Europe to shoulder the responsibilities of security and economic development in the less developed parts of its continent.
(luciano, 17 January 2007 01:17)