Serbia, Mladic and the EU

According to editorial writer Jean-François Verdonnet, "the protection network, it seems, is slowly succombing to foreign pressure: true or not, the rumours of the past few days have not arisen by mere chance. While they do not allow us to declare the date and hour of arrest, they underscore a growing fragility, an accelerated transition to a new phase of political action. This newly hostile environment at once favours a new balance of forces in Serbia and the greater effectiveness of outside intervention -reminders to abide by TPIY rules, a greater coordination between Western intelligence agencies, a stepped-up determination by the powers involved and an end to their hedging and equivocation. For Mladic, playing the game has become all the more difficult as the rules have changed in Belgrade."

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