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The more important questions posed by video-footage of Ratko Mladić may be about Boris Tadić's grip on the Serbian security services. For a fugitive with $5 million...

Serbian official says video footage of war-crimes suspect was leaked to weaken bid for closer ties with EU. New footage has surfaced that appears to show Ratko Mladić,...

The answer is perhaps that the term is pragmatic. And, in Kosovo, that may not be unreasonable. After months of uncertainty, the United Nations Security Council earlier...

And how it is playing on everyone's mind. It had long been foreseen that the major Western powers' decision to recognise Kosovo as a state would eventually be cited as a...

Visa requirements for Serbians ‘should be dropped; Serbian police capture war-crime fugitive. Serbia aims to become a European Union candidate by mid-December and wants...

Stojan Župljanin is one of four men still wanted by the UN war-crimes tribunal. Serbian security forces today arrested one of four Serbs still wanted by the...

Why there is sense in a link-up between the pro-EU victor of Serbia's elections and the party founded by Slobodan Milosevic. It seems the EU's strategy of bolstering...

The EU has taken a calculated gamble in taking its first contractual step with Serbia. It might just work. The Stabilisation and Association Agreement signed between the EU...

Young people in the former Yugoslavia are studying EU affairs to re-establish ties with western Europe, writes Alexander Monro In a trend symptomatic of their young...

In the coming weeks and months, a majority of EU member states, along with governments from the US to Switzerland, will recognise the independence of Kosovo. This will not...

There are two sorts of negotiations: those that aim to achieve an outcome and those that are held for the sake of holding them. Very few observers still believe that the...

The conclusion of technical talks between Serbia and the EU on a Stabilisation and Association Agreement (SAA) this week comes at a time when the EU remains divided on the...

EU negotiations with Serbia could be resumed next week and a Stabilisation and Association Agreement, a stepping stone to EU membership, could be concluded by the end of the...

At the United Nations Security Council in New York, the EU and US are struggling to prevent Russia from vetoing Kosovo's proposed independence from Serbia. But in the...

Given the widespread negativity about further EU enlargement, it is curious that the EU is poised to lower the bar for Serbia, which Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn said...

Slovak Foreign Minister Ján Kubis has said that time must be given to reach a negotiated solution on Kosovo's future, after the United Nations' chief negotiator said he...

Ask senior EU diplomats what the Plan B is and they laugh nervously. Then they say: “There is no Plan B!” Tomorrow (2 February), Martti Ahtisaari, the former Finnish...

Martti Ahtisaari, the UN special envoy, will present tomorrow (2 February) his plan for the future of Kosovo, intended to end almost eight years of political limbo in the...

The EU appears ready to relax its preconditions for Serbia to restart talks about EU membership. EU diplomats said the bloc wanted to send a message to the Serbian...

Serb leaders have ruled out a return of representatives of the Serbs to Kosovo's institutions, despite strong diplomatic pressure from the EU. Speaking in Brussels on...