Serbia not ready for the EU

It is still too early for Serbia to join the EU, writes the left-liberal Süddeutsche Zeitung: "The stability and association pact - that is the first step to accession negotiations - has not been implemented by the EU because Serbia has still not arrested the presumed war criminal Ratko Mladic. With it's application Serbia's government is taking the second step before the first. The scandalous thing is that a majority of Serbs still reject the idea of handing Mladic over to the UN Tribunal, and that parliament has never condemned the genocide in Srebrenica. Nevertheless Italy, Spain and Sweden have encouraged Belgrade - against the advice of other EU members - to file the application. The EU will have to speak with a single voice if it wants to bring peace to the region. That is the lesson we learn from history, old and new."

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