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"en.20020905.6.4-106"2
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EU Member States caused much damage in the former Yugoslavia through their participation in the war in 1999. It is therefore their duty to contribute to its restoration. Not only in Kosovo but also in Serbia. This has now been proposed, and rightly so. In 1999 there were good grounds for suspecting that the war was not only about Kosovo. The deep loathing that the inhabitants of Kosovo had developed against Yugoslavia looked as if it would be misused as a crowbar with which to achieve a whole different set of objectives. The coercive proposals made to Milosevic before the outbreak of the war did not, oddly enough, provide for independence for Kosovo, but rather for foreign influence on the government and the economy of Serbia and Montenegro. If it is now being proposed that the European Agency for Reconstruction, which was originally intended for Kosovo, now be extended to include Serbia and Montenegro and if there are also calls for Kosovo, Serbia and Montenegro to be made more dependent on one another by creating a common energy supply, this raises the question as to whether Serbia has been promised that it will get Kosovo back in exchange for adapting to and integrating into the EU. If this is the case, it will not only evoke a lot of resistance within Serbia but will in particular cause uncontrollable anger on the part of the deceived inhabitants of Kosovo. The EU is playing with fire."@en1
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