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The bid comes days after citizens of Serbia, Montenegro and Macedonia won the right to travel without visas to E.U. countries for the first time since the bloody Balkan wars of the early 1990s - a move that some low-cost airlines had already anticipated by adding Belgrade and other airports...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Pariah No More: Serbia Bids to Join the E.U. | 12/23/2009 | See Source »

Belgrade is already working closely with Brussels to make the necessary economic, legal and constitutional reforms to join the E.U. The government is also closely monitoring the European Commission's "progress reports" on its efforts, the latest of which underlined privatization and fighting organized crime as priorities for the government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Pariah No More: Serbia Bids to Join the E.U. | 12/23/2009 | See Source »

But despite Serbia's newfound enthusiasm for the rest of Europe, officials caution against expecting any swift E.U. accession. Slovenia is the only former Yugoslav republic that has managed to join the bloc; Serbia now joins Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Albania, Turkey and Iceland in an ever-lengthening line of aspiring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Pariah No More: Serbia Bids to Join the E.U. | 12/23/2009 | See Source »

Yet the biggest obstacle to Serbia's membership is the past -specifically Belgrade's inability to face up to the baleful legacy of the Balkan wars. The E.U. has made the capture of war fugitives Ratko Mladic and Goran Hadzic a precondition to even starting membership negotiations. The two men...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Pariah No More: Serbia Bids to Join the E.U. | 12/23/2009 | See Source »

Another barrier to membership is Serbia's continuing belligerence toward Kosovo, where about 10,000 people were killed and 850,000 driven from their homes during the war. Although NATO ousted Belgrade's tanks from the territory in 1999, Serbia still refuses to accept the loss of its province. Indeed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Pariah No More: Serbia Bids to Join the E.U. | 12/23/2009 | See Source »

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