Friday, January 4, 2008

Many in Slovenia yearn for old Yugoslavia - Telegraph

"Marco Sporar, a 21-year-old business student who studies in the capital Ljubljana, said he understood why posters of Yugoslavia's founding leader and Second World War hero Marshal Josip Broz Tito are appearing again on the walls of many Slovene homes.

'I have a picture of Tito at home, my mother worships him,' he said. 'It was easier to get a job then, now everything is about money.'

Doubts remain about whether the EU will bring Balkans countries, such as Slovenia and Serbia, together or heal the wounds of past conflicts in the former Yugoslavia.

'The EU is not united like Yugoslavia. Then every country, under Tito, had a voice. In the EU the biggest countries have the biggest say,' said Mr Sporar."

Source: Telegraph

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