But those friendly feelings may not last forever.

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Rather, the difference reflected the more open, cosmopolitan, "Europe-friendly" feelings of people in the capital city, compared to the more traditional values of the countryside, with its nostalgia for Sweden's "separate identity".

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Bulgaria's feelings for Serbia, however, are far from friendly.

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NATO's campaign and Mr Meciar, who has been notably friendly with both the Russians and Slobodan Milosevic of Serbia, an old hunting friend, is bound to stir fraternal feelings for fellow Slavs.

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