Former Yugoslavia patches itself together. Entering the Yugosphere

Almost 20 years after political bonds in the former Yugoslavia were severed by war, day-to-day links between companies, professions and individuals in the former republics are quietly being restored. The article concludes 'The trick over the next few years will be to consolidate what people have in common, keep their governments focused on that, and try to bring the region’s politics and business more closely aligned both throughout the Yugosphere and, ideally, with the rest of Europe, too. The European Union was founded to cement peace on the continent and in the Yugosphere that job is not yet finished'.

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