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"A decision on whether to open E.U. membership talks with Serbia is scheduled for the autumn, and European leaders are now much more likely to give the green light. Last October, at the insistence of the Netherlands, E.U. foreign ministers declared that new steps would be approved only if all 27 member countries agreed that Belgrade was cooperating fully with war crime investigations.
The issue is particularly sensitive in the Netherlands; lightly armed Dutch peacekeepers failed to prevent the slaughter of some 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys at Srebrenica in 1995.
“This day is a good day for justice and the victims of General Mladic,” the Dutch prime minister, Mark Rutte, said in a statement.
Though the Balkan countries were told eight years ago that they could join the process of European integration, Serbia was prevented from even starting membership talks because of its failure to arrest Mr. Mladic.
Yet, without the prospect of Serbia joining the European family, there was a gaping hole in the West’s strategy for regional reconciliation — one that could begin to close.
In the past, European integration helped France and Germany put aside centuries of enmities after World War II, and eased other historical tensions among neighbors, including issues between Britain and Ireland.
Now, despite a series of continuing problems in the region, that prospect finally opens for the Balkans, too."
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/27/world/europe/27union.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha22
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