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Ugh. I can't think straight about this anymore....
As do Spain (Basque country, Catalonia, Galicia, Ceuta and Melilla, the Canary Islands, Olivenza...) and Greece (Northern Cyprus, Macedonia), of course. We have met the enemy, and he is us — Pogo
In Macedonia there is no significant area in which seperatist Macedonian Slavs are even a substantial minority, let alone a majority.
Note also that various areas in S. Albania have a Greek majority/significant minority (despite the fact that most of them left for Greece they retain citizenship and property there). Although the only people advocating seccession of "Northern Epirus" (as it is called in Greece) are a few ultranationalist wingnuts, given the new situation that has developed, I'm betting on their resurgence... The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom - William Blake
From the words of those two IDIOTS the German foreign minister and the CDU's foreign policy guy, it appears the pro-independence majority in the Council wants to push the minority to also agree so that there is EU unity on the matter. *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
Sometimes secession can be good. After all, my own country seceded from England in 1776. In Kosovo's case, I think at the very least, the timing was quite bad.
DoDo, where in what-would-become-Croatia were you and when? I didn't realize you had actually lived there.
We also had one post-war greeting card exchange with a Bosnian-Muslim family from the Croatian-Bosnian border, who once pre-war gave us shelter on a travel; how they made it, I'd be curious. *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
Italy, Austria, Germany and a huge chunk of the ex-Yugoslavia.
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