They devised a new economic policy to ensure the profitability of the colonies as Europeans expanded their market reach into the colonial sphere. European perceptions of wealth from the 1500s to the late 1700s were shaped by the philosophy of mercantilism. Mercantilism held that there was only a limited amount of wealth in the world, as measured in gold and silver bullions. Nations had to amass wealth in order to gain power by mining these precious raw materials from their colonial possessions. Mercantilists did not believe in free trade, arguing instead that to create wealth and improve state power, the nation should control trade. Colonies existed to strengthen the colonizing nation in this view.
It did because the people were upset with the second back of the United Staes.
Serbia and Montenegro spit definitely in 2006, although the country was before called "Serbia and Montenegro", and there were clear boundaries between the territories.
Kosovo is, depending on the point of view, a independent country in the Balkans, with an Albanian population, or a part of Serbia.
The thing is that Serbia has no de facto power over Kosovo, and Kosovo is de facto independent, but on the international stage not every country recognizes Kosovo as an independent country.
Vicente Fox.
He won the presidential elections that year.
