[mark502inf]

So its OK for Kosovo but not for Spain?

First, the Catalan & Basque separatists were referring to Montenegro, not Kosovo.

Second, the Kosovars are saying almost the same thing: "Why is it OK for Montengego to vote to secede, but not us?" Both Kosovo and Montengro were incorporated into the entity most recently known as Serbia & Montenegro by force of arms ratified by Great Power fiat at the end of WWI. Both fought revolts for years that were brutally suppressed. However, Kosovo voted for independence in 1991 and then suffered through the Serb pogroms against the Albanians culminating in the ethnic cleansing campaigns of 1998-99. From their viewpoint, even more so than Montenegro, they deserve independence yesterday.

[GAB-1955]

Finally the Archduke Franz Ferdinand gets his payback!

[Lion in Winter]

LIES!! Kosovo was NEVER separate form Serbia and you know it!! How's your Albanian ISLAMICS MOBSTER pals doing today????

[PeteB570]

True, but I was referring to the part about the EU dealing with Kosovo next.

The whole "Vote for Independence" is such a crock. The same countries that back it in one part of the world denounce it in an other.

China and Taiwan, that's a good one. With the last election Bolivia could be next with a split off of the lowlands. The Basques? Thorn in the side of Spain for years.

No easy solution to any of them. Just messy.

[Jacob Kell]

"Second, the Kosovars are saying almost the same thing: "Why is it OK for Montengego to vote to secede, but not us?""

I have heard that the old Yugoslav Constitution has stated that while constituent Republics, which Montenegro was, had the right to secede, autonomous regions and provinces, such as Kosovo, didn't.