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9/2/05

Pushing the boundaries

FT.com / Arts & Weekend

"Pushing the boundaries
By Daniel Dombey
Published: September 2 2005 11:06 | Last updated: September 2 2005 11:06

EU enlargementThe man from Brussels fidgets in the back of the car as the mountain road straightens out before us. To our right, just a few kilometres from the convoy we are travelling in, is the last known hide-out of Europe’s most notorious war criminal. And a few hours beyond the pine forests is the site of the continent’s worst massacre since the second world war. Green cliffs hang above us. The four-car convoy motors past cows and sheep that wander from tiny patches of land into the road. Occasionally we glimpse buildings abandoned after the “ethnic cleansing” of a decade ago."

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