Tema destacado del Miércoles, 30. Abril 2008

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An association agreement with a proviso

The EU and Serbia have signed a stabilisation and association agreement. However it will only take effect if Serbia cooperates with the war crimes tribunal in The Hague. The EU hopes this will serve to bolster the pro-European forces in Serbia's parliamentary elections on May 11.

Berliner Zeitung - Alemania

"Just over a week before Serbia's parliamentary elections take place, the European Union has forged a bridge with the Balkan state but blocked off access for the present," Frank Herold writes. "The association agreement which the foreign ministers have hesitantly signed after much deliberation is tied to a condition. No one says this openly, but the agreement will only take effect if the 'right', pro-Western forces rallied around President Boris Tadic win. If the nationalists win, which seems highly probable at present, access to that bridge will be blocked. ... Serbia faces its most important elections since the fall of Slobodan Milosevic. The decision it faces is not between the EU and Kosovo, because Belgrade has already lost Kosovo forever. It must choose between joining Europe and isolating itself. The partnership agreement is the EU's belated attempt to make this decision easier for the Serbs." (30/04/2008)

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Más de la revista de prensa sobre el tema » Ampliación de la UE, » Política de la UE, » Europa, » Serbia
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El País - España

"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." (30/04/2008)

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Más de la revista de prensa sobre el tema » Relaciones internacionales, » Ampliación de la UE, » Política de la UE, » Europa, » Serbia
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The Irish Times - Irlanda

The daily comments on the consequences of the agreement the EU has signed with Serbia. "The EU thereby hopes to influence the elections by encouraging Serbian voters to support parties favouring a European vocation for their country, in which eventual EU accession is envisaged. This agreement would allow greater freedom of travel to EU states, and increasing economic and trade relations with them in an effort to stimulate employment opportunities. Given the deep isolation experienced by Serbia's 7.5 million people since the violent break-up of Yugoslavia, this is potentially a very attractive package. ... But the anti-EU Radical Party and the extreme nationalist Democratic Party of Serbia of outgoing prime minister Vojislav Kostunica both denounced yesterday's agreement, accusing President Boris Tadic ... of high treason for doing so. The scene is therefore set for an intensely emotional final stage of the election campaign." (30/04/2008)

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Más de la revista de prensa sobre el tema » Relaciones internacionales, » Ampliación de la UE, » Política de la UE, » Europa, » Serbia

Neue Zürcher Zeitung - Suiza

The EU has dropped one of the most important requirements for an agreement for opportunistic reasons, Cyrill Stieger points out. "They can say whatever they like to justify it, but Brussels is putting rebellious Serbia on the fast lane and rewarding it for not handing over General Ratko Mladic, the man chiefly responsible for the genocide in Srebrenica, to the UN tribunal in The Hague. ... The EU has given up its most important instrument for exerting pressure on Belgrade. This makes it even more unlikely that Mladic and Karadzic, the two men chiefly responsible for the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina, will ever be called to account for their crimes before the Hague tribunal. Who will want to hand them over now? The EU's decision is a slap in the face for the victims." (30/04/2008)

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