Without knowing Mr. Chrysostomidis' reasons, I'd say it's pretty obvious that the recognition of Kosovo as an independent state is against international law...and a transparent land-grab by NATO. The countries not supporting this criminal act all have very good reasons.Spain doesn't want any precedents set for the Basque separatists....Greece, Cyprus & Romania are Orthodox Christian nations on the front line of aggressive Muslim hegemony...Slovakia remembers the foreign policy of Germany the last time the Nazis ruled the EU & used.all Slavs as a subhuman labor pool...Just like WWII, The Germans are occupying Yugoslavia again..Only this time it's 'legal' .

EU is getting nervous, because they know that the project of independent Kosovo will soon officially become illegal. So called institutions in Pristina are getting even more nervous with their intention to send special police forces to deal with the rest of Serbs who stayed in the north and who don't recognize the independence. There is great chance that we will soon have a serious conflict there because USA and EU decided to solve the problem in an illegal way. Larry, you are wrong about Greece, Cyprus, Romania and Slovakia. Each of them has problems with separatism. Greece also has problems with Albanians in the border area, since Albanians consider it a part of future "great Albania". Cyprus has the same problems as Serbia with break away Turkish Northern Cyprus. Romania and Slovakia have a problem with Hungarian population who dream about "great Hungary", that includes great percentage of their territories. It aims at Serbian territory too, but Serbian government tolerates it for the sake of good neighbor relations.

Yes that makes more sense that the Hungarians are pushing for a 'greater' Hungary. They still have Austro-Hungarian aspirations. I didn't know they had sizable populations in Slovakia & Romania. The Hungarians I've encountered politically are very, very right wing like the Croatians & the Baltic people. Like the Croatians these Hungarians don't seem to understand that the Nazis lost WWII...and the cold war is over. I also agree that the Turks & especially the Albanians are very militant since they've been given blank checks by NATO.....but unlike you, Kolosus, I think all of this has given the EU a false sense of confidence that they can crush any Serbian resistance to Kosovo independence.

@Larry I don't agree with you that "Croatians, Hungarians don't seem to understand that the Nazis lost WWII" Be cause their victory is at full swing today. Example - revisionism "soft" version is on. Like saying Soviets were the same as NAZI or Serbs are guilty for starting WWI, or commemoration of NAZI SS in Baltic's,Hungary ,Croatia etc. is PUBLIC and supported often by gov. officials even newspapers. No they didn't lose WWII be cause today Yugoslavia is destroyed and Balkans are under full German control Those newly created (traditional German satellites) countries (Slovenia,Croatia,Bosnia) were recognized by Germany FIRST before USA. Kosovo Albanian and Bosnian Muslims are old German (Waffen SS) friends and they have full German support in depraving Serbs who live there of all rights to punish them for their anti-German policy since WWI Destroying Serbia (only true German opponent in Balkans) completely (taking Vojvodina) is not so far away EU is also every day more under German dominance (trough control of euro) So Germany needs just new depression (like in 1929) to spring up new leader (new Hitler) for 4th Reich to come as final victory of Germany with EU under their control as cherry on the top... " (Deutschland) Europe uber alles" All what they ever wanted but this time without war, for free falls in their hands... a victory over Europe. No they didn't lose WWII....not yet

Jako, I see what you're saying & I completely agree....The Germans are building the 4th Reich with different tools. The Germans lost two wars so now they are using the economy as a weapon...modeled on the US system...to achieve their expansionist goals...Leave it to the Germans to misuse their new tools for aggressive purposes every single time..The methods are different & politically correct..but we are seeing the same old motives since the time of the Teutonic Knights...

Jako777, I can see you are full with wishful thinking when you say Croatian and Hungs victory is at the full swing today! You don’t seem to understand the reality of today’s World, because it is 180 degrees different from what it was in 1999 when Croatia’s seemingly allies were in their pick of dominance with Madeline Korbel Albright demanding uninterrupted access to Russian’s Siberia’s natural recourses for American and British companies. Well, those times are gone forever and Croatia and Huns have reached their pick on the Serbian and Russian skeleton, but right now the World structure is reconfiguring dramatically with changes taking place every hour of every day and these two countries are on the losing side. America and Europe are bankrupt sustaining life on life support infusion with Chinese and Russians loans, when only 10 years ago Russia was in this situation when the wolves pack were buying Russia’s mineral wealth for a few dollars. Mikhail Khodorkovsky bought Yukos with George Soros’s money for $300 million while the real value was $50 billion hoping to achieve their goal by soft power. But, guess what? Putin came to power and their fortune changed dramatically, and with theirs Croatians, Huns and Kosovars. The centre of power has shifted comrade from the West to the East and Serbia is in the right equation.

Was Russia wrong when she said that any recognition of Kosovo will open a flood gate in separatist movement demand for recognition? Of course she was right. Do you think that despite the invasion of South Ossetia, that Russia would have agreed to the demands of South Ossetia and Abkhazia to recognise them? Not likely, more likely Russians would have pushed the Georgians out and returned the situation to the pre war status. Many countries within the EU and outside the EU have their own separatist problem and that includes even the USA and Russia. Some countries see the bigger picture like Spain who has a large basque minority that want out and are going about it violently.. Others do not, I wonder how the USA will handle its own separatists, taking in account that some of them are getting louder.Take Hawaii and Alaska for example.Both are claiming they were forced into the union.These are just two of the dozens of movements in that country.Granted that some of them do seem silly like the Christian Exodus and Republic of New Afrika but there are a lot of them. Britain if its not careful will fragment, the Irish, welsh, English and Scot could never stand each and already have their own parliaments,money and laws and will not require much to walk away.After all In the city of York, it is legal to murder a Scotsman within the ancient city walls, but only if he is carrying a bow and arrow.This law was never removed.I wonder how the Scots feel about it. The truth is that there will always be people who want to leave a country and start their own.If its done illegally, the world will be thrown into chaos.Kosovo already has its own separatist movement.

It is a contradiction: yes to Kosovo and no to South Ossetia and Abkhazia. Larry, NATO is led by the U.S., not by Germany which spends less on Defense than France, the U.K. or Russia and doesn´t have nuclear weapons.

Of course the Serbs in Kosovo which is their ancient homeland, do not exist and are not entitled to so called "human" or "civil" rights. At least that is what Western Europe would like us to believe. Maybe crime does pay in the case of the Albanians who have illegally migrated to part of Serbia when they have their own country Albania..

My friend, as always in the history, might makes right, period. Have you for just one split second thought otherwise? Come on, man! International law, what is that? Never heard of it! Historic background, who cares? Fair treatment for all parties involved, are you nuts? This is just hypocrisy in the worst degree! All hail to Mr. Herman Van Rompuy, the new Emperor!

Enrique...How do you explain Germany's occupation of parts of former Yugoslavia then? Obviously, Germany doesn't contribute to its own military as much as it does to the maintenance of NATO...NATO is Germany's mercenary proxy...In return for generous land grants to US military bases and other forms of financial support, NATO carries out Germany's Cold War prerogatives which more & more resemble those of WWII....