Ex-Yugoslavs Know Why EU Deserves a Nobel Prize
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Oct. 15 (Bloomberg) -- The bile that has poured from so-called euro-skeptics since the Nobel Committee awarded the PeacePrize to the European Union is not surprising. To a journalistwho has covered the Balkans for more than two decades, it isalso reminiscent of the nationalism that ripped apart the formerYugoslavia. Back then, though, no one spoke of Yugo-skeptics.
Today, if Serbs, Croats or Albanians used the language ofanti-Europeans further west, they would be labeled extremenationalists and a threat to stability, without so much as ablink of an eyelid.