>vuk's a close friend, so i'll vouch for him on this.
>
>not that most of you know me from two bags of flour, of course.
>
>cheers,
>t
well i'd prefer you to even three bags of flour ted but could someone please tell me where to find, subscribe to, observe, steal, nettime??
catherine
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>
>Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 12:17:39 +0200
>From: "www.vuk.org" <vuk at ljudmila.org>
>To: nettime-l at Desk.nl
>Subject: <nettime> green paper
>
>ho,
>I have recieved a document entitled "A System for Post-War South-East
>Europe" (Plan for Reconstruction, Opennes, Developement and
>Integration), also called the green paper.
>It was compiled at the Centre for European Policy Studies at Brussels on
>May 3rd 99 (4th revision), and is basically regarded as an important
>strategic study for a post-milosevic balkans (from the EU angle
>obviously).
>
>With respect to listserv limitations I am quoting the Summary here, and
>would like to point you at:
>http://www.vuk.org/test/green.doc for PC and
>http://www.vuk.org/test/green.mcw for the mac
>where you can pick up the whole 30 pages document (just over 110Kb).
>
>bingo
>vuk
>
> +
>
>Summary
>
>The war in Kosovo may become the final dreadful catharsis of the Balkan
>tragedy. The end of the second world war led to reconciliation and the
>institutions of the new European order (from Council of Europe to the
>EEC etc.). So now, after the latest Balkan war, definitive foundations
>for the inclusion of the region into the European civil order have to be
>conceived and negotiated. The design of these foundations should build
>on the fact that several states of the Balkan region or the former
>Yugoslavia are already on the road towards accession to the European
>Union. While many of the policies of the EU are or can be extended to
>neighbouring countries, the EU cannot simply open all its political
>institutions immediately to numerous more small states, especially those
>without tested experience in meeting European political norms.
>
>Therefore a new political solution needs to be devised, to motivate the
>countries of the former Yugoslavia and Albania to converge on modern
>European norms, and to perceive, in relation to the EU, their own
>inclusion rather than exclusion. For this purpose new categories of EU
>membership are advocated, to which all states or regions of South-East
>Europe could aspire quite soon. The progressive inclusion of these
>states or regions in the policies and institutions of the EU is sketched
>out. The present EU enlargement negotiations would in no way be
>retarded, but elements of the “pre-accession” strategies would be
>extended to the former Yugoslavia and Albania so as to reduce the
>differentiation between them and the present accession candidates. The
>cost of a strategic initiative for these “5” states (Albania, Bosnia,
>Croatia, FYR Macedonia and FR Yugoslavia), on a similar scale to the
>cost of policies envisaged in Agenda 2000 for the accession candidates,
>would in normal circumstances be moderate (about 5 billion euro per
>annum), even supposing that all countries including FR Yugoslavia became
>eligible, since the region is small in economic terms. This would be
>well within the margin of available budgetary resources of the EU,
>following the European Council’s Berlin agreement of Agenda 2000.
>However exceptional post-war reconstruction costs will raise the total
>bill substantially, calling for the combined resources of the
>international financial institutions as well as the EU.
>
>NATO has been performing an indispensable task, deploying military force
>to try to stop the crimes against humanity. But as the military action
>ends the civilian order will have to be built up, and here the European
>Union must assume its responsibilities. Indeed the European Council
>adopted guidelines in this sense at its meeting on 14th April. The
>present paper offers a fresh set of ideas for a comprehensive strategic
>initiative by the EU, putting together economic, monetary, political,
>security and institutional components of a long-term system for post-war
>South-East Europe, which should see the region become fully integrated
>into the modern European order.
>
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