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The EU's 27 foreign ministers have decided to open Serbia’s path to membership, overriding objections from the Netherlands which is pressuring Belgrade to help arrest Ratko Mladic, (pictured) a former Bosnian Serb general accused of genocide.
The EU wants to be flexible with Serbia to bring stability to the Balkans but its membership is still many years away.
“The European Union should not give in to Serbia’s half-hearted cooperation with The Hague,” says Kenneth Roth of Human Rights Watch. “The E.U. needs to go beyond lip service to accountability, or the victims of Srebrenica will never get the justice they deserve.”
Serbian deputy prime minister Bozidar Djeli, said his country was determined to track down Mladic. “If we find him today, we will arrest him today,” he said.
NEW: The Serbian government has raised to 10m euros ($13.8m) its reward for information leading to the capture of war crimes suspect Ratko Mladic.
Serbia says it is raising the reward tenfold it showed a clear commitment to removing the final obstacle to itsentry into the European Union.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11647390
