2023-06-02 23:48:25
NATO soldiers in the town of Zvecan, Kosovo, June 1, 2023. -/AFP
ANALYSIS – Twenty-five years after the wars in the former Yugoslavia, the entire Western Balkan region has become a gray and unstable area.
Since the assassination of the Austrian Archduke François Ferdinand by a Serbian nationalist in 1914 in Sarajevo, which plunged the European continent into the First World War, the Balkans have remained the powder keg of Europe, a volcanic heart regularly shaken by lava surges. The latest eruption to date emerged this week from the badly extinguished embers of the last conflict of the wars in the former Yugoslavia, the one which at the end of the 1990s opposed the Serbia and the Kosovo. She did several dozen wounded among NATO forces which still serve as a buffer between the small Serbian minority in the North and the overwhelming Albanian majority in this former province of Serbia. Since the forces of the Atlantic Alliance helped the Kosovars free themselves from the repression of former Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic, nicknamed “the butcher of the Balkans”, and since the Albanians declared their independence in 2008, to the great dam from Belgrade who never recognized her…
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