The third of the week's talks by Robert Wistrich. 3: Back to Sarajevo
"Bismarck once said that the Balkans were not worth the bones of a single
Pomeranian grenadier. But within a few decades this powder-keg had dragged the whole continent into a devastating world war.
Future historians may well ask if the European dream of a harmonious supranational order was not finally laid to rest in the killing fields of ex-Yugoslavia."