Sadly the evil of racism is growing in the EU and Europe. Our own (UK) BNP is bad enough, but Italy has passed openly racist laws against the Roma, and anti-Roma racism is commonplace elsewhere, particularly in the "new" EU members. And in Switzerland, the racist Swiss People's Party has widespread support.

Serbia should be an object lesson to everybody on the effects of racism; as a part of Yugoslavia, it was an advanced economy, just outside the Western European standard and way in advance of almost anything in the Warsaw Pact; after the civil war, it is a useless wreck, unable to crawl out of the mire of its own obsession and resentment, and living on pointless myth and the hope of Russian mischief- making.