The European Union has signed a long-delayed pact that brings Serbia closer to EU membership, despite Belgrade's failure to deliver war crimes suspects to a UN tribunal.
EU foreign ministers meeting in Luxembourg have said, however, they would not implement Serbia's text until Belgrade showed full cooperation with the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague. The signing of the Stabilisation and Association Agreement comes ahead of May 11 parliamentary elections in Serbia. EU officials hope that the agreement will boost the chances of President Boris Tadic and other pro-European forces in the polls. An agreement for Bosnia-Herzegovina has to wait until it is translated into all 23 EU languages, a process likely to take several Divided EU Seeks to Boost Pro-European Parties in Serbia ...
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(Deutsche Welle)
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