EUROPEAN UNION LOOKS LIKE YUGOSLAVIA BEFORE IT FELL APART: This is how Slovenia sees the current situation in Europe

Slovenian business daily "Finance", said today that the European Union is now reminiscent of the eve of the dissolution of Yugoslavia. 

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Ljubljana newspaper in an editorial image of the EU is "ahead of the forthcoming referendum on Britain departure from that block, the rise of radical political forces, more or less violent changes of borders in the neighborhood and perfectly peaceful reintroduction of borders in the European zone once open," reports STA.

"It seems that no one believes in such EU. Even the president Borut Pahor as the eternal optimist, does not hide the suspicion that the EU can survive the way it is", the paper said, a Slovenian agency reminds that Pahor last week spoke at the gathering dedicated to the deepening of European integration.

Pahor, however, spoke of his vision of a "united European countries" for which Slovenian magazine estimates that today sounds feasible as much as it did in 1989 that the plan on the reform of the Yugoslav Federation, which was made by her last Prime Minister Ante Markovic.

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Another thing reminds Ljubljana's diary at the time that preceded the brake down of Yugoslavia, and that is the debate on fiscal union.

Just as the Slovenian taxpayers once reasonably questioned the benefit of separating money for Kosovo and other poorer parts of the Federation, many rich EU member states are now asking why they should set aside money for some poor countries, and that do not even know where they are, according to STA.

"One of them is adjacent to Austria, where Chancellor Werner Faymann yesterday resigned because of poor election results, while the far right is in favor of such a situation. I doubt that anyone who remembers the time in Slovenia 25 years ago, might well envy the British, the Germans or the Austrians in their pragmatic self-love", reads the text.

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If Slovenian companies can survive farce government of Miro Cerar, they will survive the exit of Britain from the EU, the Slovenian magazine estimated completion comments under the heading "Who can survive Cerar, is not afraid to Bregzita", says STA.

(Telegraf.uk.co / Tanjug)