Well, the list of the "important" topics of NATO summit in Bucharest is too similar to phone book of small town. For my country, Czechia, it is deal about antimissile radar, for French new troops going to Afghanistan and for small Macedonia - well, the answer is very hard.
Macedonian delegation has left summit earlier, small country in the mountains is very disappointed. Croatia and Albania have got invitation, Macedonia, which has sent its soldiers to Irak and Afghanistan, which paid huge amount of money for publicity in western press, not.
This is very dangerous for all Balkans. I am not writing about stupidity of Greeks or about stubborness of Macedonias in their dispute about name of two-milion country. It is about internal stability of Macedonia, which is under constant pressure of its Albanian minority. Macedonian Albanians have been pacified by peace agreement in 2001. But they have seen since the development in neighbouring Kosovo, where even harder stubborness of their cousins resulted in independence - fragile, but real.
Extremists on both sides (Kosovo and Macedonia) do not have big support for the moment. But after NATO rejection there will be many more arguments for them to point at unsuccesful policy of government in Skopje and say: let's try something else. Situation in Kosovo is tense, international community is consumed by nonvisible struggle between Albanians and Serbs, snow is melting, mountains are going to blossom. In the shadow there can again rose to prominence some new group trying to secure its interests in smuggling or other illegal activity and couflage it by independence call.
Well, we should watch Balkans again closely. Spring offensives are not only the speciality of Taliban.
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