The baleful phantom of border changes haunts the Balkans

Tony Barber, The Financial Times (USA)
Changing state borders in the western Balkans is usually considered one of the most dangerous ideas in contemporary European politics. So why has a mysterious document been circulating in Brussels this month that proposes far-reaching changes to the borders established following the wars of the Yugoslav succession in the 1990s and their aftermath? The fundamental reason is that the western Balkans has been trapped in a strategic no man’s land for a quarter of a century.