It would be a missed opportunity during George W. Bush's European trip if the US president did not spend a little time with his interlocutors on where the US and European Union have worked well together, not only on where we have disagreed.
The Balkans is a region where we have seen eye to eye and worked shoulder to shoulder. It was not ever thus. But since the end of the Kosovo war, we have been, as the Chinese would say, like lips and teeth. Our strategy has worked: drawing the countries of the western Balkans along the path of reform towards an eventual coupling with the Euro-express. It has not all been smooth. There are still a lot of problems. But remembering where we came from - Franjo Tudjman, Slobodan Milosevic, ethnic cleansing - the turnround has been remarkable.
