The European Union should get on with admitting the better-run countries from the western Balkans

Jun 2nd 2011 | from the print edition

FOR Europe’s politicians, whose voters do not much like the idea of further expansion, Serbia’s failure to catch Ratko Mladic was convenient. With the country’s most egregious suspected war criminal at liberty, the European Union had a plausible reason to prevaricate about admitting it....more...