The EU cancels talks with Serbia-Montenegro

"It was a real shock for the Serbian government, even though they had seen it coming for a long time," writes Peter Potocnik on the EU's cancellation of accession talks with Serbia. "It would have been surprising if the past few months of growing impatience in the hunt for the notorious general Ratko Mladic, both within Serbia and abroad, had been rewarded. Mr. Kostunica's government caved in to pressure because otherwise it would have lost the support of the Serbian parliament, where Milosevic's Socialists are bitter opponents of the tribunal in The Hague."

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