Barbed wire and bridges
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1761316,00.html
The Balkans will continue to fragment unless the EU makes cooperation a
condition of membership
Gyula Hegyi
Wednesday April 26, 2006
The Guardian
Dolce Vita is a small cafe in Kosovska Mitrovica, on the Serbian side
of the city. It is on the river bank, in front of the bridge leading to
the Albanian part. Sometimes the bridge is opened to traffic, other
times it is barricaded with barbed wire and tanks of the French
gendarmerie. After decades of the cold war, Berlin is now united, but
those with nostalgia for its wall have only to travel to Kosovska
Mitrovica. It is a city divided into two hostile parts.
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