paste text reprinted Gadzinowskiego Peter, very interesting for all lovers of the Balkans:
(Text can be found at Gadzinowskiego, click here )
Incomplete Europe
Once in a lifetime I agreed to the first page of the weekly "No" with President Lech Kaczynski. It was February 28, 2008. Then praised him as a cooling zapałów Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski to immediately recognize the "independence" of Kosovo. The Minister stood his ground and Poland, the sheep rush for the American Big Brother, the fiction of Kosovo's independence recognized.
on Kosovo was in 2003. As a delegate of the Council of Europe observer was correct on Kosovo's local elections. I watched them in the area Kosovska Mitrovica Serb-Albanian city, where, as in a lens focuses all the problems of Kosovo. Serbs boycotted the elections then. I remember the near the Serbian village Świniary boycotting in solidarity. A year later, when provoked by the Albanian majority of the riots, the whole village was burned.
mandate of the Council of Europe observer opened all the doors. I had the opportunity to talk with the then leaders of Albanian: Hashim Thacim, Ramush Haradinajim and the late Ibrahim Rugova. Also the leader of Kosovo Serbs, Oliver Ivanovich. Albanian leaders asked about the economic basis of sovereign Kosovo. Not got any real response.
Today, Kosovo is still the center of the Balkan drug trafficking, women and stolen goods. This is a benefit of this "independence."
in Belgrade for the first time was in May 1999. During the NATO bombing. We traveled in a delegation led by the SLD tears Sierakowski, to protest against this, the military ways to resolve conflict, the Serbian-Albanian. Declaring that earlier ethnic cleansing carried out by the Serbs on the Albanians do not condone it. Delegation later proved the presence in the Albanian camp refugees in Macedonia. Then I saw the Serb war united, full of optimism. A year later I saw a state of peace, but also feelings of degradation, despair. Karłowacenia thriving once Yugoslavia. Is also noticed during numerous subsequent trip to the Balkans. Not only in Serbia, including Macedonia, Montenegro. Only Croatia was revived as a tourist basin of unifying Europe.
Just looking at the map of Europe can not fail to recognize that without the region, the European Union is incomplete. Kaleka. Just adding the remaining population outside the EU, the former Yugoslav republics and Albania's population get little more than that of the recently adopted Romanian. And yet they still absent in the EU countries in terms of development of Romania and Bulgaria do not disappear.
Balkan accession depends primarily on the will of the rich, the old EU. This "first rate". Countries which will grant Kosovo Pristina fictional "independence" and not a member of the Union. European family.
And only the adoption of these countries into the EU offers the only realistic chance solution to ethnic conflicts in the region. And their modernization.
Peter Gadzinowski
PS. That was close, and Belgrade, would be the last military expedition. In 2006, Zoran Nowakowić dying, a former deputy foreign minister of Serbia and Serbia and Montenegro's ambassador in Poland, told me that when driving in a darkened car, we were almost hit by American "smart" missile. Walnęła about 100 meters behind us, the slope on the bridge abutment. She hesitated, feeling the country's citizens to the newly accepted NATO?
