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Greek-Yugoslav (con)federation[a] or Balkan Union was a political concept during World War II, sponsored by the United Kingdom, and involving the Yugoslav government-in-exile and Greek government-in-exile.
The Greek and Yugoslav governments-in-exile negotiated the conditions of the agreement until the end of 1941. The agreement was signed by Slobodan Jovanović and Emmanouil Tsouderos[4] on the ceremony held in British Foreign Office, presided by the British minister of foreign affairs Anthony Eden. It was explicitly stated in the agreement that both Yugoslav and Greek governments looked forward to accede other countries of the Balkans to the Union.,[5] quoted in Wheeler (1980, pp. 157–8) Although caution was advised with revealing the hope that Bulgaria and Romania would join this union, on 4 February 1942 Eden stated in the House of Commons that the treaty signed between Yugoslavia and Greece was definitively going to be a basis for the establishment of the Balkan confederation.
The Greek-Yugoslav Confederation was to have been a first step toward a larger Balkan Union, which would also have included Albania, Romania and Bulgaria.[1] Encouraged by the British Foreign Office, together with the Polish-Czechoslovak confederation, they were to form a West-aligned organization of states between Germany and the Soviet Union.[1][6][7] The Greek and Yugoslavian governments-in-exile signed an agreement on January 1942 in which they agreed to form a political, economic and military union, with the motto "The Balkans for the Balkan People". Their respective monarchies were to be unified with the marriage of King Peter of Yugoslavia to Princess Alexandra of Greece.[1] The union was to be finalized after the war.
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