YUGOSLAV-GREEK NEGOTIATIONS FOR CREATION OF THE BALKAN UNION Cover Image

ЈУГОСЛОВЕНСКО-ГРЧКИТЕ ПРЕГОВОРИ ЗА СОЗДАВАЊЕ БАЛКАНСКА УНИЈА
YUGOSLAV-GREEK NEGOTIATIONS FOR CREATION OF THE BALKAN UNION

Author(s): Aleksandar Manojlovski
Subject(s): Local History / Microhistory, Political history
Published by: Институт за национална историја
Keywords: United Kingdom; Yugoslavia; Greece; Balkan union; federation; confederation

Summary/Abstract: In its political plans for post-war settlement, the British government attempted since the Second World War to secure its own influence in South East Europe and the Balkans. Based on this strategy, the British political leadership began to encourage the creation and implementation of specific kinds of interesting spheres by creating federations, confederations and unions between Eastern and Southeastern Europe. Besides the anti-Soviet character such forms of regional grouping during the war had to secure and strengthen the British domination and control in Europe and in the Balkan after the war. The treaty establishing a Balkan union between Yugoslavia and Greece was signed on 15 January 1942 in London at the official ceremony organized in one of the halls of the British Foreign Office, though with obvious intention to all to be clear that behind this deed stands the United Kingdom government.

  • Issue Year: 56/2012
  • Issue No: 1-2
  • Page Range: 143-161
  • Page Count: 19
  • Language: Macedonian