Politics:

Europe seriously fears "Balkanization" of the continent

Brussels' announcement about the intentions of contributing to the development of the sovereign Kosovo, gave rise to big apprehensions among a number of EU member countries about intensified separatist dispositions.

March 29, 2008
It seems that the US President George Bush has decided to resolve all the conflicts during his last days of Presidency. These intentions concern all the conflicts around the world, where the USA directly or indirectly has its share of "responsibility". And if the Kosovo conflict is chronologically one of the latest ones, the Near-Eastern conflict is already 60 years old, and the conflicts in the post-Soviet area are 20 years old.
 
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