Serbia was changed by capitalism, not EU pressure

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Ratko Mladic's capture might have come sooner if the EU had not put so much pressure on Serbia to face the past

Boris Begovic

guardian.co.uk, Friday 3 June 2011 10.31 BST

With Ratko Mladic in his Scheveningen cell, it is now a conventional wisdom to hail the pressure placed by the international community, primarily the EU, on Serbia as being decisive in bringing about this state of affairs. Without that pressure – the political condition of Serbia's possible accession to the EU – no such result could have been achieved....more...

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