Success for EU advocates

For the daily La Repubblica the arrest of the alleged war criminal Radovan Karadžić "was probably achieved thanks to the persistence of Boris Tadić: Serb president and one of the most convincing advocates of EU membership, one of the few Serb politicians who was never on friendly terms with Karadžić." The daily notes that all the others, whether they belonged to the opposition or the government, maintained optimal relations with the Bosnian-Serb headquarters in Pale. It adds that as temporary president of the "Serb mini-republic" Karadžić also had numerous contacts with Western governments. "If Karadžić does indeed give testimony before the court in The Hague, there will no doubt be quite a few people in the West who will be forced to explain their conduct. This is probably one of the reasons why certain contingents at NATO did not seem overly keen to arrest him, even though his hiding place was initially known. The man knows a lot, enough at least to rob many of their sleep - and not only among his former Serb comrades."

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