Posted on 10/16/2012 6:26:01 AM PDT by kronos77
Belgrade (dpa) - If the European Union sets the recognition of Kosovo as a condition for membership, then Serbia "will abandon the European path," President Tomislav Nikolic said in an interview published Tuesday.
Nikolic told the Vecernje Novosti daily that Serbia has met the conditions previously set and that new terms would be unacceptable.
"We reached a level where we can count on EU membership and now it keeps us at a distance only because of Kosovo," he said. "But it can keep us there the next 100 years and we will not change our position."
"If they start adding new rules which did not apply on other countries, then they can reject us. In that case it is better if they say: we don‘t want you," Nikolic said in the interview.
Serbia has EU candidate status, but a key condition for its progress is to normalize ties with Kosovo - as opposed to recognizing it - through talks brokered by Brussels.
Nikolic has been president since May elections when he defeated his pro-Western rival Boris Tadic.
A former nationalist, he has toned down his anti-Western rhetoric in the past four years. However, along with his strong pro-Russia position, it has re-emerged since his election.
Kosovo is a former Serbian province with a mostly ethnic Albanian population which declared independence in 2008. It was recognized by the big Western powers and 22 out of the 27 EU countries.
Belgrade insists on sovereignty over what it says belongs to its heartland. Serbia‘s superpower ally Russia has blocked Kosovo‘s membership in the United Nations. dpa bb hl Author Boris Babic
Ping!
But we’ve reaped such goodwill by creating an islamic nation beloved by Al qeida in Kosovo. And sure, they are the epicented of organized crime, sex slavery, you name it, but it’s all for the greater good. And ethnic cleansing isn’t wrong when the EU does it.
Americans need its Central European Islamic Drug Distribution Republic.
all that money spent to influence american public education which came from foreign governments is going to pay off if this junk continues.
Good! Abandon the EU, the sooner the better, no matter what they say about the bogus “independent Kosovo”!!!!
The EU is POISON for all Orthodox Christian nations, and for others like the Czech Republic and Slovakia!
PHOOEY to the EU, and PHOOEY to the Norwegian Nobel Committee that gave both the EU and obama the Nobel Peace Prize!!!!
by http://hesperado.blogspot.com/ Deconstructing the Myth of Milosevic and the Serbs Digging around in my ongoing excavation project of hundreds of dusty, old artifacts buried in my files from my years of autodidactic pedagogy about the horrors of Islam, I found this excellent critical analysis of the demonization of Milosevic — and by extension, of the Serbs. Written crisply, clearly, sharply and with copious documentation by Francisco Gil-White, and published back in March of 2006, it should be required reading. How to lie with (or without) statistics: An examination of Patrick Ball’s indictment of Milosevic ( http://www.hirhome.com/yugo/ball.htm ) Just to tantalize the reader with one quote from Gil-White: “As this piece will show, Patrick Ball’s own data directly contradict the hypothesis that Milosevic’s government carried out an ethnic cleansing campaign against Albanian civilians in Kosovo. In other words, when Mr. Ball concludes that there was such an ethnic cleansing campaign, he is doing so in defiance of his own analysis. This does not inspire confidence in the various ongoing efforts to assign blame around the world (listed above), and which feature Mr. Ball’s work rather prominently.” Previous installments of my H-Files series: Episode 1: The Al Aqsa Mosque: Architectural Supremacism and Insult Against Christianity Episode 2: Algeria in the 90s — a premonition of the “Arab Spring” Episode 3: 60s sexpot actress Brigitte Bardot grew up, condemns Muslims in France Episode 4: Paul Berman: Another “expert” who thinks “Islamism” is the problem, not Islam Episode 5: Black Widows and Basayev: Some random notes on the Jihad in Russia Postscript: The Serbian-American film critic, John Simon, tells me that Ivo Andric’s famous book title (which I used for my essay pic up top) should be more accurately translated, On the Drina, a Bridge. As I wrote back to him: That more accurate title (“On the Drina, a Bridge”) is much better. The other one (“The Bridge on the Drina”) has the feel of a fixture, historical furniture, a museum piece; while this one, aside from implying hope as you suggest, also implies accident, suddenness, and/or the felicitous or tragic concurrence of humans doing what they have to do under adventitious or adverse — or both — circumstance. But I have grown to dislike the word “bridge” in its hopeful connotation — what with all the “bridge-building” going on these days among Western Amnesiacs of History with a people who throughout history have only used bridges to invade, plunder, slaughter and, if anyone’s left, subjugate (all, of course, after an initial “invitation” to take the Shahada…) ~~Worth the time guys!
by http://hesperado.blogspot.com/ Deconstructing the Myth of Milosevic and the Serbs Digging around in my ongoing excavation project of hundreds of dusty, old artifacts buried in my files from my years of autodidactic pedagogy about the horrors of Islam, I found this excellent critical analysis of the demonization of Milosevic — and by extension, of the Serbs. Written crisply, clearly, sharply and with copious documentation by Francisco Gil-White, and published back in March of 2006, it should be required reading. How to lie with (or without) statistics: An examination of Patrick Ball’s indictment of Milosevic ( http://www.hirhome.com/yugo/ball.htm ) Just to tantalize the reader with one quote from Gil-White: “As this piece will show, Patrick Ball’s own data directly contradict the hypothesis that Milosevic’s government carried out an ethnic cleansing campaign against Albanian civilians in Kosovo. In other words, when Mr. Ball concludes that there was such an ethnic cleansing campaign, he is doing so in defiance of his own analysis. This does not inspire confidence in the various ongoing efforts to assign blame around the world (listed above), and which feature Mr. Ball’s work rather prominently.” Previous installments of my H-Files series: Episode 1: The Al Aqsa Mosque: Architectural Supremacism and Insult Against Christianity Episode 2: Algeria in the 90s — a premonition of the “Arab Spring” Episode 3: 60s sexpot actress Brigitte Bardot grew up, condemns Muslims in France Episode 4: Paul Berman: Another “expert” who thinks “Islamism” is the problem, not Islam Episode 5: Black Widows and Basayev: Some random notes on the Jihad in Russia Postscript: The Serbian-American film critic, John Simon, tells me that Ivo Andric’s famous book title (which I used for my essay pic up top) should be more accurately translated, On the Drina, a Bridge. As I wrote back to him: That more accurate title (“On the Drina, a Bridge”) is much better. The other one (“The Bridge on the Drina”) has the feel of a fixture, historical furniture, a museum piece; while this one, aside from implying hope as you suggest, also implies accident, suddenness, and/or the felicitous or tragic concurrence of humans doing what they have to do under adventitious or adverse — or both — circumstance. But I have grown to dislike the word “bridge” in its hopeful connotation — what with all the “bridge-building” going on these days among Western Amnesiacs of History with a people who throughout history have only used bridges to invade, plunder, slaughter and, if anyone’s left, subjugate (all, of course, after an initial “invitation” to take the Shahada…) ~~Worth the time guys!
:) True. Great work too.
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