EU foreign ministers will decide Tuesday whether Serbia should finally become a candidate for membership in the bloc, with influential officials saying signs looked good after the country reached a key agreement with its former province of Kosovo.
Serbian President Boris Tadic sounded a cautious note, describing himself as a “skeptical optimist,” and a handful of the country’s neighbors expressed opposition to the move.
Serbia had been widely expected to be made a formal EU candidate in December after it captured two top war crimes suspects, but was disappointed when Germany blocked its candidacy on the grounds that it wanted to see more progress in talks.
German Foreign Minister German Guido Westerwelle appeared optimistic Tuesday, saying he supported “a green light for Serbia’s candidacy.”
…Tadic said Romania, Serbia’s eastern neighbor, had raised objections during ministerial discussions to the status of the Vlach ethnic minority in eastern Serbia. Bucharest wants Belgrade to incorporate the Vlachs into the Romanian national minority in Serbia. But this is opposed by many of the Vlachs who don’t consider themselves to be of Romanian origin.
Tadic said Serbia could not force those people to join the Romanian national minority.
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