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EU/NATO/SERBIA : BELGRADE FACES INTEGRATION DILEMMA'.

Publication: Europe-East
Publication Date: 22-OCT-09 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
The expected lifting of EU visa restrictions on Serbians in 2010 is eagerly anticipated by many in Belgrade as a tangible sign that their country is finally emerging from years of isolation following the wars of the 1990s. However, while Serbs can now look forward to hassle-free holidays, business trips and student exchanges in the Schengen area if the final hurdles to visa liberalisation are cleared, other ongoing developments in the Balkans serve to show how far Serbia has fallen behind its neighbours on the road to integration with the Euro-Atlantic mainstream.

The expectation that Montenegro and Bosnia-Herzegovina will apply soon for a membership action plan to join NATO will leave Serbia as the only nation in the Balkans that is neither in the alliance nor well along the path to joining. Croatia and Albania entered NATO earlier this year and their flags now fly outside alliance headquarters in Brussels. Macedonia has completed its road map for membership and entry should be...

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