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Covers the whole range of EU-Western Balkans-Relations and the internal developments in the countries of the Western Balkans with implications for these relations and their possible accession to the EU.

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13.05.08: Serbia: EU hails victory of pro-Western camp

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more fromwww.euractiv.com
- Despite an unexpected 10 percent victory in Sunday's parliamentary elections in Serbia, the pro-European camp of President Boris Tadic is not able to govern alone and may depend on the Socialist Party of former dictator Slobodan Milosevic to form a government.
- With nearly 98% of votes counted, Tadic's "For a European Serbia" alliance gained 38.75% of the votes - which would translate into 102 out of 250 seats - followed by Tomislav Nikolic's Radicals with 29.2% (78 seats), the State Electoral Commission said. The clear vote comes as a surprise as polls just days before the elections showed Tadic's Democratic Party and the nationalists still neck-and-neck, if anything giving the latter a slight edge.
- Links
  
  European Union
  
  Presidency: EU Presidency Statement on General Elections in Serbia
  (13 May 2008)
  
  Council: Statement by High Representative for Foreign and Security Polics Javier Solana
  
  (12 May 2008)
  
  Commission: Overview EU-Serbia relations
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12.05.08: Serbia's pro-Europe forces claim election win

Tags: enlargement, enlargementpolicy_candidates, serbia, elections, westernbalkans on 2008-05-12 -All Annotations (0) -About

more fromeuobserver.com
- The Serbian Radical Party of Tomislav Nikolic took 29.1 percent and 77 seats, while outgoing prime minister Vojislav Kostunica and his nationalist Democratic Party of Serbia won 11.3 percent and 30 seats.
  
  The Socialists of the late Slobodan Milosevic with 7.9 percent of the votes and 20 seats in the parliament are set to play a decisive role, as parties need to have at least 126 MPs in order to put in place a stable government.
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11.05.08: Serbs face their toughest electoral decision yet

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more fromwww.sbpost.ie
- The Balkans country is engulfed in a bitter dispute over today’s election, which will determine whether it moves a step closer to EU membership, writes Tom Lynch.
- ronically, perhaps the only consensus between Serbia’s political parties is that they all agree Kosovo should remain part of Serbia.
  
  Serbia is classified as a Potential Candidate Country by the EU, meaning that the EU recognises that Serbia will eventually join, once it is ready.
  
  On April 29, 2008, the EU signed the Stability and Association Agreement (SAA) with Serbia. The SAA is the first step on the road to EU membership, and also guarantees certain benefits - in the form of EU funding and trade liberalisation.
  
  In an added incentive, 16EUmember states have also offered visa-free travel for Serbian people.
  
  The agreement was pushed through, despite some members’ opposition, to counter the growing popularity of the nationalist Serbian Radical Party and New Serbia Party, and the overarching fear that Serbia might turn its back on the EU.
  
  The SAA will not come into force until Serbia arrests and hands over Ratko Mladiæ , former chief of staff of the Bosnian Serb army - who is wanted over the 1995 Srebrenica massacre - to the UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague, so it does not represent much of a real breakthrough. This has long been a sticking point in the EU-Serbia negotiations.
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Wikipedia: Accession of Serbia to the European Union

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more fromen.wikipedia.org
- Accession of Serbia to the European Union depends on several factors. While both the Serbian government and the European Union agree that Serbia could eventually become a member of the EU, the need for internal reform both within Serbia and the EU means that Serbia will not join EU before 2012, and perhaps not before 2015.
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09.05.08: Serbs go to polls divided over EU path

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more fromeuobserver.com
- Serbian voters will go to the polls on Sunday (11 May) for what is being billed as decisive elections for the country's EU future.
  
  The main parties in the running are the pro-Western centrists of president Boris Tadic's Democratic Party (DS); the nationalist Serbian Radical Party (SRS) currently led by eurosceptic Tomislav Nikolic, and outgoing prime minister Vojislav Kostunica's conservative Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS).
- While this time the Democrats have excluded forming an alliance with the conservatives, a coalition between the conservatives and the radicals seems increasingly likely.
  
  The EU's fears
  
  This is just the political set-up the EU least favours. It has made no secret of its wish to see the pro-Western forces win Sunday's vote.
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21.02.08: Who really wants new EU member states?

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more fromwww.kakanien.ac.at
- Brussels is constantly promising money and EU accession to the Western Balkans. But which EU member state really wants new EU members, wonders H-J Schlamp in an opinion piece for the SPIEGEL (which I copy pasted below). The EU seems to be increasingly critical of Croatia's progress in accession negotiations, and does not seem to be willing to set a date for the start of negotiations with Macedonia (which has been waiting for more than two years (!!) after having been granted candidate status in December 2005). Albania, Montenegro, and Bosnia-Herzegovina could maybe start accession negotiations in 2015... and Serbia - well, it could be well on its way into the EU, if it had reacted differently to Kosovo's independence declaration. Read more below (only in German, unfortunately)...
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SEE-EU-Blog

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more fromwww.kakanien.ac.at
- This weblog is a forum for discussion on the political and social processes linked to EU integration in the Western Balkans. We would also like to use this space to create a virtual network of researchers on this topic. You are most welcome to contribute to this weblog with comments, postings, links, or photos. Please use the "add comment" function at the end of each posting!
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06.05.08: Serbia's EU course turns into question of life and death

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more fromwww.euractiv.com
- Just days before crucial parliamentary elections (11 May), the question of Serbia's future accession to the EU has become an issue of existential importance as the country's President Boris Tadic has received a death threat over his pro-EU stance.
- A threatening letter was sent to Tadic following his signature of a Stabilisation and Association Agreement (SAA) with the EU, considered to be the first step towards membership of the bloc (EurActiv 30/04/08). It accused the president of being a "proven traitor to the Serb nation" and threatens him with a "bullet to the forehead," the Belgrade daily Blic reports.
- Opposition between the country's pro-European politicians and hardline nationalist parties is currently at its highest since the breakaway Kosovar province unilaterally declared its independence from Serbia on 17 February 2008 - with the backing of several EU countries.
  
  A recent poll conducted by the Strategic Marketing agency showed Serbia's nationalist Radical Party slightly ahead of Tadic's pro-European bloc (33.2% to 31.5%), with the nationalist coalition of Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica ranked third (13.8%).
- Links
  
  European Union
  
  Commission: Overview EU-Serbia relations
  
  Press articles
  
  Balkan Insight: Serb Radicals Lead Opinion Poll
  
  Balkan Insight: Kosovo Serbs to Sue Leaders over EU Deal
  
  Balkan Insight: Russia's Putin backs Serbia PM
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06.05.08: Albania told to implement reforms before winning closer EU ties

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more fromeuobserver.com
- When the commission is "convinced that the reforms are consolidated, only then we will be in a position to guarantee the next step," he stressed.
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The Delegation of the European Commission to the Republic of Serbia

This web site is the focal point for information about the growing relations between the European Union and Serbia. The content of the site is a reflection of the richness of these relations. Since our first and largest target audience is the Serbian public, we are in the process of preparing a Serbian language version. The Delegation is preparing itself to take over responsibility for financial and economic assistance programmes in support of reforms in Serbia, currently managed by the European Agency for Reconstruction (EAR). From 2007 and the introduction of the EU's new financial Instrument of Pre-accession Assistance (IPA) this site will contain more information on assistance and specific programmes and projects supporting political and economic reforms in Serbia. You will also be notified about open tenders and calls for proposals.

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Mission of the European Union to the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia

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Delegation of the European Commission to the Republic of Croatia

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more fromwww.delhrv.ec.europa.eu
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European Union in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Links to\nEuropean Commission Delegation to BiH \nEuropean Union Special Representative in BiH\nEuropean Union Force in BiH \nEuropean Union Police Mission in BiH

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Delegation of the European Commission to the Republic of Albania

The Delegation of the European Commission in the Republic of Albania is a permanent diplomatic mission, which represents the European Commission, - the executive body of the European Union - in the framework of the implementation of the European Community's external relations. The Delegation was established in 1993, when the European Commission decided to upgrade its Office of the Special Envoy to a full Delegation in the light of the positive democratic development, which had took place.

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02.05.08: Serbia - Agreement with EU Deepens Rift

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more fromwww.ipsnews.net
- Serbia achieved a long proclaimed foreign policy goal earlier this week when it signed a pre-membership pact with the European Union in Luxembourg.
  
  But though this was declared a priority when the isolationist rule of Slobodan Milosevic ended in 2000, both the content and the timing of the Stabilisation and Association Agreement (SAA) has brought deep controversy.
- Some leaders have seen the agreement as triumph. "This is a historic moment for Serbia," foreign minister Vuk Jeremic said after deputy Prime Minister Bozidar Djelic signed the SAA with the EU's enlargement commissioner Olli Rehn and foreign ministers of all 27 EU nations.
  
  Jeremic and Djelic belong to the Democratic Party (DS) of Serbian President Boris Tadic, who also attended the ceremony. The DS was part of the coalition government led by conservative outgoing Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica from the Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS). The DSS wants all ties with nations that recognised Kosovo to be cut. Besides the 17 EU countries, that would mean also the United States and other countries.
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02.05.08: Kostunica: "EU deal signature will be annulled"

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more fromwww.b92.net
- Prime Minister Vojislav Koštunica, DSS, says the first move for the new parliament and government will be to annul "the Tadić-Đelić SAA signature".
- "This agreement has only one goal, to be interpreted as Serbia's signature to Kosovo's independence," Koštunica said.
  
  "Nothing will come out of this trick, because after the elections, the new government and parliament will annul the Tadić-Đelić signature," the leader of the DSS-NS coalition, running in the May 11 ballot, continued.
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02.05.08: We should stop trying to intervene in Serbia's elections

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more fromeuobserver.com
- Proud European though I am I would be sorely tempted to vote for Mr Kostunica's alliance of anti-EU radicals and nationalists were I Serbian and eligible to vote in their Parliamentary elections on 11 May.
- For with indelicate haste earlier this week the European Council agreed a Stabilisation and Association Agreement for Serbia which the pro-European Serbian President, Boris Tadic, was summoned to Luxembourg by telephone to receive. For him, of course, and his pro-European Parliamentary party that is facing Mr Kostunica in the 11 May elections, the SAA - the first step to joining the EU - is good news; something in fact that Mr Tadic has been long expecting, but of which he has been baulked by the International Criminal Tribunal, who judge that the Serbs have been lax about rounding up their indicted war criminals and delivering them to justice.
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30.04.08: Bosnia angered by signing of EU-Serbia deal

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30.04.08: Bosnia to Sign EU Deal on 26 May

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more frombalkaninsight.com
- 30 April 2008 Brussels_ Bosnia and Herzegovina will sign a key EU pre-membership deal on 26 May.
- To secure the
  signing of the deal, Bosnia
  had to pass a series of highly-contested police reforms which was a
  precondition for the country to advance in the EU integration process.
  
  The police
  reform laws were designed to bring a measure of harmony to the law-enforcement
  systems in Bosnia, whose
  functions and powers since the 1995 Dayton
  peace agreement have been split between the country’s two virtually independent
  entities, the Republika Srpska and the BiH Federation. The reforms were
  approved earlier this month following much deliberation by Bosnian politicians.
  
  The EU’s failure
  to sign the deal with Bosnia
  on Tuesday raised eyebrows among journalists since a deal was hastily signed
  with Serbia.
  Read more: http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/main/news/9742/
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29.04.08: EU attempts to woo Serbia with SAA

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more fromeuobserver.com
- The decision was taken on Tuesday morning after Belgium and the Netherlands agreed to sign the SAA.
- They yielded to the pressure of other EU states – who have been prepared to sign the agreement for weeks - on condition that Serbia will not get any concrete benefits from the agreement until Belgrade is judged as fully cooperating with the ICTY.
  
  Normally, ratification of such documents is launched immediately after they are signed.
- Meanwhile, the party of Serbia's prime minister, Vojislav Kostunica, has reiterated its opposition to signing the SAA and said the country's parliament would never ratify the document, according to Russian news agency Itar-Tass.

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