After 31 years --my whole life-- these two post Yugoslav states will get as close as possible to what used to be, sharing a currency and without borders. Yet we find ourselves further removed from the other former YU states, which are stuck in EU accession limbo, or worse.

Vlado Vince

@mejs

In 2 months Croatia will join the eurozone and Schengen, and after 31 years there will again be no border with Slovenia. This is all too little and too late, both the Euro and Schengen are deeply problematic, but I'm happy for that border to go away.

10/28/2022, 7:03:58 PM

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Vlado Vince

@mejs

After 31 years --my whole life-- these two post Yugoslav states will get as close as possible to what used to be, sharing a currency and without borders. Yet we find ourselves further removed from the other former YU states, which are stuck in EU accession limbo, or worse.

10/28/2022, 7:03:59 PM

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Vlado Vince

@mejs

It is so deeply wrong and absurd. While Slovenes and Croats enjoy all the privileges of the EU, former Yugoslavs from Kosovo can't even enter the EU without visas. Meanwhile, as the Schengen border widens, it is also reinforced at the expense of anyone trying to cross it.

10/28/2022, 7:03:59 PM

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Vlado Vince

@mejs

It is such a bizarre time to rejoice at something that I so strongly believed in growing up, as this European integration finally completes in my country, it is but a shadow of what was promised. For this to happen while another European war rages makes it seem pointless.

10/28/2022, 7:03:59 PM

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Vlado Vince

@mejs

31 wasted years of waiting at borders to see your neighbors. How many more years of waiting to see your neighbors across the wrong borders? It's all so despicable. I'm happy and sad at the same time.

10/28/2022, 7:04:00 PM

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