The Balkan bad boy's warning
Vilified by the west in the 1990s as the bad boy of Europe, Serbia says the boot is on the other foot these days.
According to Belgrade, it is the US, Britain and France who now endanger stability in the western Balkans by rashly backing Kosovo's independence. Their policy is irresponsible, illegal, and self-defeating, Serb officials claim.
Non-partisan observers are blunter still: they say independence simply will not work.
Speaking at the House of Commons today, Vuk Jeremic, Serbia's foreign minister, warned that seven years of domestic reforms and political good behaviour since Slobodan Milosevic's fall would be undermined if Serbia were forcibly partitioned.… Seguir leyendo »