ABSTRACT
This is the hour of Europe. -Jacques Poos, Luxembourg’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, 27 June 1991.
A. Yugoslavia Disintegrates, EPC Mediates and Greece Cooperates
The end of the Second World War found Marshall Tito and his communist partisans in control of Yugoslavia, which consisted of six republics: BosniaHercegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, and Slovenia.1 In addi tion to outright suppression and propaganda, Tito attempted to bridge ethnic differences by creating a state with a strong centralised government (until 1974, when more powers passed to the republics), and by allowing a somewhat liberalised economy. His break with Stalin and the subsequent pursuit of a high profile non-aligned foreign policy made him popular at home, and won sympathy (and financial aid) from the West. Yugoslavia became particularly prosperous (by socialist standards), ‘with an average annual economic growth [for the years 1965-89] of 6.3 percent.’2
