It is certainly not a question of geography, for in those terms we are already in it and need make no effort to reach it. It is something distant, something to be attained, to be deserved. It is also something expensive and fine: good clothes, the certain look and smell of its people. Europe is plenitude: food, cars, light, everything - a kind of festival of colours, diversity, opulence, beauty.

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It is certainly not a question of geography, for in those terms we are already in it and need make no effort to reach it. It is something distant, something to be attained, to be deserved. It is also something expensive and fine: good clothes, the certain look and smell of its people.
Europe is plenitude: food, cars, light, everything - a kind of festival of colours, diversity, opulence, beauty. It offers choice: from shampoo to "So, what does Europe mean in the Eastern European imagination? It offers choice: from shampoo to political parties. It represents freedom of expression.
It is a promised land, a new Utopia, a lollipop. And through television, that Europe is right there, in your apartment, often in colours much too bright to be real. Every time someone at an airport or border crossing checks her passport, unlike her husband, there is always a cold look. In a supple and felicitous manner, Drakulic suggests how far she and her countrymen have yet to go to create a society like their Western European neighbours.
There is rage in the eyes of people who seem to still want to smash all remnants of the Enver Hoxha regime. But this particular shop had not heard of such a trick, and being looked at like criminals they went elsewhere.
He was by turns an opponent of fascism, a partisan, and a high-ranking officer in the Yugoslav National Army, which marks against him in Croatia today.
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