Surviving Yugoslavia joins EU?

Is there any POD that would result in Yugoslavia not disintegrating and instead surviving and (relatively) thriving in comparison to its other Eastern European neighbors and consequently being invited into the EU (maybe in the late 90s or sometime in the 00s?).

I'm imagining the POD would involve preventing Milosivec from getting into power to let Yugoslavia become more democratic. Unfortunately i don't know much about the details of Yugoslav politics at the end of the cold war. Anyone got any ideas how this could happen and what a yugoslavia in the EU would be like and what an EU with yugoslavia would be like?

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Personally I've always thought Yugoslavia could have only worked in a world where it was an equal democracy from the get-go, and in some way avoided the partisan warfare of WW2. The Croats and Serbs were simply too embittered to each other due to Serb domination in the 20s and 30s and the Utasche in the 40s. If democracy had returned to Yugoslavia after WW2 Im pretty much convinced it would have collapsed there and then. Only a figure of Tito's stature with a repressive anti-nationalist system could have kept it together.

The best hope IMO is a divided Yugoslavia that doesn't suffer the ethnic warfare of OTL
 

Cook

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If the various republics had been broken down into smaller Cantons of the Swiss style with a very weak central government responsible only for foreign policy and preventing the Cantons from reforming along nationalist lines you may have stood a chance.
 

yourworstnightmare

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Personally I've always thought Yugoslavia could have only worked in a world where it was an equal democracy from the get-go, and in some way avoided the partisan warfare of WW2. The Croats and Serbs were simply too embittered to each other due to Serb domination in the 20s and 30s and the Utasche in the 40s. If democracy had returned to Yugoslavia after WW2 Im pretty much convinced it would have collapsed there and then. Only a figure of Tito's stature with a repressive anti-nationalist system could have kept it together.

The best hope IMO is a divided Yugoslavia that doesn't suffer the ethnic warfare of OTL

But if Yugoslavia had become a democracy the breakup might have been slightly easier.
 
If the various republics had been broken down into smaller Cantons of the Swiss style with a very weak central government responsible only for foreign policy and preventing the Cantons from reforming along nationalist lines you may have stood a chance.

Well, this basically is the description of 1986's Yugoslavia.:D
 
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