Kosovo - A fully fledged EU colony?
WORKERS, MAY 2007 ISSUE
The UN mediator on Kosovo has called for Kosovo to be given "independence under international supervision", saying, "independence is the only viable option for Kosovo". He said it should be governed by an EU official who would have the power to veto laws and sack elected politicians. He said it should be occupied by substantial NATO military forces, which would be both its army and its police force. Strange independence!
Since the 1990s, the US and German states and the EU have schemed to achieve Kosovo's secession, against massive opposition from the peoples of Europe. Kosovo's previous German governor had decreed a new "independent" legal order for Kosovo; Kosovo's present German governor sold off all the country's state enterprises to foreign buyers without even a nod to their rightful owner, the Serbian government in Belgrade. Strange independence!
The Bush government welcomed the idea, and the German presidency of the EU declared its "strong support". NATO demanded a solution "which is acceptable to the population of Kosovo", with no reference to the need for Serbia's consent.
A Basque separatist seized on the precedent: "On the day on which Catalonia and the Basque country raise their hands and say, 'We are going independent' ... the Spanish government ... will no longer be able to raise its finger and say 'Yes, but only with Spain's consent'." How soon before a Scottish separatist demands the same?