French daily: Belgium and Balkanization

Le Figaro urged Europe to "open the issue of its internal borders" in an editorial Friday.

Izvor: Tanjug

Friday, 09.11.2007.

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Le Figaro urged Europe to "open the issue of its internal borders" in an editorial Friday. "At the moment when there is increasing talk about Kosovo's independence Europe has to open the issue of its internal borders," the newspaper said. French daily: Belgium and Balkanization "Separatists in Europe should not have the feeling that their actions go unpunished and think that they can enjoy the benefits of the European Union, no matter what happens," the article, entitled Belgium and Balkanization, said. The piece looked at the institutional crisis in Belgium and possibility of its partition to Flanders and Francophone Wallonia. The author assesses that the disintegration of the country where the European institutions are seated would “open the door for the Balkanization of Europe,” adding that the paradox is that the logic of “to everyone their own” is being developed at the time when the European construction is being built. “Flemish aspiration towards autonomy - and sometimes towards independence - has the same element of historical revanchism we find in Spain, with the claims of Catalonia and Basque." "Although less advanced, the similar process is underway in other European countries, such as the one in northern Italy or in Great Britain with the devolution of authority to Scotland and Wells,” the daily said.

French daily: Belgium and Balkanization

"Separatists in Europe should not have the feeling that their actions go unpunished and think that they can enjoy the benefits of the European Union, no matter what happens," the article, entitled Belgium and Balkanization, said.

The piece looked at the institutional crisis in Belgium and possibility of its partition to Flanders and Francophone Wallonia.

The author assesses that the disintegration of the country where the European institutions are seated would “open the door for the Balkanization of Europe,” adding that the paradox is that the logic of “to everyone their own” is being developed at the time when the European construction is being built.

“Flemish aspiration towards autonomy - and sometimes towards independence - has the same element of historical revanchism we find in Spain, with the claims of Catalonia and Basque."

"Although less advanced, the similar process is underway in other European countries, such as the one in northern Italy or in Great Britain with the devolution of authority to Scotland and Wells,” the daily said.

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