Germany, France, Great Britain and Austria would make up "Old Europe"
"New Europe" would include Estonia, Latvia, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Slovenia -- "The Catholic Zone". They suggest that Croatia belongs here, too.
The Balkan Federation is referred to as "The Orthodox Zone" and would include Greece, Serbia, Kosovo, Albania, Bosnia, Bulgaria, and Macedonia".
If that were to happen, can you imagine what they would be sticking the Orthodox with? Muslims, who the West has newly empowered -- a perpetual bloodbath!
Yeah, that CIA article seems totally ridiculous to me. If anything, culturally (and economically) speaking, the main bloc of nations that’s forming is sort of a fusion of Old and New Europe— a sort of “North/Northeast Europe” (Finland, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, Austria, Belgium, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia despite it being in the Balkans, Czech Republic) vs. a “South/Southeast Europe” (Spain, France, Portugal, Italy, Romania, Bulgaria, Greece) with the Balkan nations and Britain each doing their own thing.
The North/Northeast Europe group is distinguished by their response to the economic crisis— they’re thrifty and avoiding excess government debt, culturally with a lot of interrelation and intermarriage (and German as a sort intellectual/academic language among them) and mainly, their focus is high-tech and manufacturing. Whereas, the French-led South/Southeast Europe is distinguished by their much higher debt levels (Spain, Greece have very high deficit-spending) and less focus on high tech/manufacturing— they’re more of a French “civil service model.” (Although it’s interesting, France’s President Nicholas Sarkozy is very conservative, much more so than the other leaders— and he’s been the staunchest opponent of Turkey anywhere near the EU.)
What’ll happen in the Balkans— who knows. One of the many ironies about the Kosovo blunder— those Kosovo Muslims largely aren’t staying in Kosovo anymore, they’re flooding out into Britain (in particular) and also out to Australia and even here in the States, where the Kosovo Albanian mafia is leading the heroin trade and trying to muscle in on the turf of the Italian and Russian mafias. There was a report by an ethnic Albanian (who’s no friend of the Kosovars), who pointed out that the Kosovars don’t buy into the NWO crap of Britain and the United States— they see us as naive suckers who are ripe to be taken advantage of, which frankly we are, considering our governments’ policies. So they’re immigrating here in droves to take control of the drug and gun-running trades. Yet another example of our governments’ mind-numbing idiocy.