An association agreement with a proviso

"The Commission thinks that selling an agreement with no substance will help the pro-Europeans at the polls," explains Ramón Lobo. "This delusion is proof of a lack of information and realism: corruption and the economic crisis, even more than Kosovo, drive the radicals. There is an absence of any real European strategy... Serbia has not gone through its catharsis yet. Its people are unaware of the crimes committed in their name. However, they do believe that only the Serbs have paid so dearly for the Balkan wars in the 1990s. Their sense is that Croatia has been judged by different standards and that Bulgaria and Romania have been rewarded without really deserving to be. What is required to change that sentiment are brave leaders who will tell the people the truth; and an EU which does not engage in political zigzagging and lends its unconditional support to that section of the Serbian population that feels truly European."

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