Balkan as anti-Europeanism

"Kathimerini"
Stavros Tzimas
 
If prior five-ten years asked to one Serbian, Albanian, Croat, Slav vision for the future of his and his children will tell us unequivocally within the European Union. Today things are different. More and more people appear frustrated and in disbelief facing the European perspective.

In Croatia, which in the recent referendum said the "big" yes "in E. E. », one in three people voted against membership, and went to the polls for a supposedly crucial fact, only 43.5% of voters, with the remaining 56.5% being indifferent. The anti-European party, Tomislav Nikolic in Serbia appears first and by far the polls on the eve of elections, threatening to overthrow the pro-Western Tadic's government blocks. In Kosovo, the anti-Europeans of motion "Self" rapidly increase their influence, especially among young people and unemployed Albanians. A constantly growing nationalist movement in Tirana with the flag of "Greater Albania" proclaims irredentism, "vision" foreign to the European idea, and the rulers in Skopje, through excessive patriotism, cultivate the public skilfully refined anti-Europeanism.

What do all these? That the European vision of the peoples in the Western Balkans begins to fade, giving way to the nationalisms. Not only is the crisis and introspection in EE caused Euroscepticism and make people wonder if under the circumstances remains the motivation for European enlargement to countries, which carry serious economic and ethnic problems. The relentless insistence of Germany to its knees to the point of humiliation Serbs on the Kosovo issue to the open (;) the way to Brussels pushes people around in a dead end of nationalism. And as the thermometer rises nationalist in Belgrade, the more we grow and the nationalist fever Albanians.

At the summit in Thessaloniki in 2003, European leaders had set a deadline for the integration of all countries of Western Balkans in EE 2014. They believed that the European dream will absorb up to then the problems of Balkan nationalism and will reinforce the unclouded harmony of the peoples of the region. Proved wrong and so I have responsibilities and the strong E. E.

Greece has shouldered a heavy and unbearable for her charge of promoting the "Agenda 2014" which right now it only as a joke can be heard. So I did a very good FM who never got to the meeting of foreign ministers of Western Balkan countries, scheduled to take place in Thessaloniki this issue in the coming days.