Serbia presenter candidacy Tuesday for the European Union

Yesterday - 10:54 Serbian President Boris Tadic will deposit in Stockholm next Tuesday his country's formal application for entry into the European Union. This was announced last night the Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt. Continue reading this news "is' clearly an important and historic step for Serbia," he wrote in a statement on the web minister, whose country has the rotating presidency of the EU until the end of the year. "President Tadic will be accepted Tuesday in Stockholm in order to submit a nomination official, "said Bildt. Boris Tadic and his Prime Minister Mirko Cvetkovic yesterday signed the document on Serbia's candidacy for EU integration. Although the filing of Apply a symbolic step, the European representatives stressed that Belgrade still has many hurdles to overcome to meet the standards of member countries. Serbia suffers particularly its incapacitated, so far, to capture the former Bosnian Serb general Ratko Mladic , accused by the International Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia for genocide for the massacre of 8,000 Bosnian Muslims in Srebrenica in 1995 and the siege of Sarajevo. The Netherlands therefore refuse to ratify the Stabilization and Association Agreement, the preliminary stage of negotiations formal membership until Mladic will not be delivered to the Tribunal. "Serbia has the intention and will, without ambiguity, to arrest the fugitives for the good of its citizens and for reconciliation in the Balkans," said Boris Tadic to sign the official document. "It 'a great day for Serbia. There is a milestone … Today we are entering a very difficult period that requires deep and painful reforms," added the Chief Serbian State. The process was delayed in 2008 for a series of obstructionist maneuvers by some national MPs, but the changes made to the Serbian parliamentary procedure made it possible to resume the process. Despite Belgrade should still be done to comply with standards EU legislative and policy has recently been a slight rapprochement. The EU has abolished the visa obligation for Serbian citizens in the majority of Member States and the text provides for the abolition of customs for six years was raised.