Serbia asks EU to step up ties amid crisis

Article reports that Serbia’s pro-European government fears a backlash as the global economic downturn begins to bite in the country. Vuk Jeremic, Serbia Foreign Minister, told the Financial Times that hardline nationalist forces beaten in elections earlier in 2008 could soon rise again unless the European Union moved fast to implement its conditional pre-accession agreement with Belgrade.

Deutsche Welle, 17.11.08: Serbia Under Increasing EU Pressure Over Mladic Manhunt http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,3800515,00.html

Serbia: Government: News, 15.11.08: Government takes measures to mitigate effects of global financial crisis http://www.srbija.gov.rs/vesti/vest.php?id=50765

ESO: Background information: Prod for Serbia on EU membership http://www.europeansources.info/record/prod-for-serbia-on-eu-membership/

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