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The mood in Helsinki towards enlargement has not changed. Your article entitled “German veto threat to Serbia's EU candidacy” (1-7 December) has an anonymous reference...

Two weeks after the fall of Srebrenica in 1995, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague charged Mladic with genocide, crimes against...

Serbia expects reward for capturing Mladic. ● A timely capture with time-limited effects ● The Dutch angle ● The charge sheet Many uncertainties...

Arrest of Bosnian Serb former general expected to unblock Serbia's bid to join EU. Ratko Mladić, who is wanted by a United Nations tribunal on genocide charges, has been...

Move paves way for Serbia to gain EU candidate status later this year. European Union officials have welcomed today's arrest of Ratko Mladić, the wartime commander of the...

Should the slaughter of ‘social and political groups' be considered genocide? There is a controversial addition to the debate. Stanford University historian Norman Naimark...

Three books examine the complex system of war-crimes tribunals in the Balkans and further afield. Last June, the European Union's member states decided to proceed with...

Serbia's bid for membership in the European Union has long been held back by member states' insistence that Belgrade demonstrate full co-operation with a United Nations...

Commission to propose opening Montenegro talks, but crime and corruption hold back Albania's EU bid The European Commission will next month recommend that member states open...

EU ministers insist on full war crimes co-operation The European Union's member states have referred Serbia's application for membership in the EU to the European...

Netherlands wants Serbian membership bid delayed to wait for war-crimes court report due in November. Uri Rosenthal, the new foreign minister of the Netherlands, is facing...

Dutch refuse to give green light for membership talks and say there will be no fast-track without better war-crime co-operation. Serbia's expectation of a fast track to...

Meetings with Van Rompuy and Ashton to focus on next steps in region Hillary Clinton, the US secretary of state, is to discuss Pakistan and the Balkans during talks with...

As ratification of Serbia's pre-accession deal with the EU gathers momentum, catching war-crime fugitives could become harder. On Sunday (11 July), Boris Tadic, Serbia's...

Balkan country aims to start talks on last chapters. Croatia is ready later this month to open all three of the policy chapters that it still has to start discussions on in...

Dutch drop objections to starting accession talks with Serbia after presentation by the UN's war-crimes prosecutor. EU foreign ministers in Luxembourg today gave the green...

ICTY report 'supportive' of Serb co-operation. The Dutch government will drop its objections to the ratification of a pre-accession agreement between the European Union and...

Parliament to debate crimes against Serbs. The Serbian parliament has adopted a resolution that apologises for the killing of 8,000 Bosniaks (Bosnian Muslims) at Srebrenica...

Slovenia and the Netherlands drop opposition to accession talks with Balkan country. Croatia's prospects of joining the European Union have improved after Slovenia and the...

Dutch government cites Croatia's improved co-operation with war-crimes court. The Dutch government has lifted its reservations to the EU starting negotiations with Croatia...