EU to offer Serbia fast track to candidacy: draft
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European Union leaders are set to offer Serbia a fast track to candidacy for membership in the bloc and pledge to step up preparations for a police mission to stabilize Kosovo, a draft statement for Friday's EU summit said.
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BLED, Slovenia  - The European Union could change the Balkans at a stroke by giving membership candidate status to countries still uncertain whether the bloc really wants them, Serb Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremic said on Monday.
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The European Union welcomed a Serbian &amp;quot;action plan&amp;quot; to achieve full cooperation with UN prosecutors seeking to try war crimes suspect Ratko Mladic and urged Belgrade to put it into practice.
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European Union leaders agreed early Saturday on guidelines for drafting a new EU treaty to replace the bloc's aborted EU constitution, officials said.
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Days before presidential polls in  Serbia pitting a pro-EU liberal against a nationalist, the  European Union announced on Friday it would launch discussions  on offering Serbs visa-free access to the bloc.
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The European Union has welcomed the re-election of Serbia's pro-Western president.  Will it get Serbia an early EU entry?
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BRUSSELS, Belgium  - The European Parliament gave its overwhelming endorsement to the European Union's first-ever constitution Wednesday and urged EU governments to quickly follow suit.
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"We have seen what happened in former Yugoslavia when the European Union did not take things in hand."  European Union leaders, worried that Kosovo's push for independence could trigger instability in the Balkans, were set to offer Serbia a fast-track route to joining the bloc at a summit on Friday. via Reuters
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The European Union is to adopt a new "twin track" approach to its dealings with the two officially united Balkan republics of Serbia and Montenegro, in an attempt to speed up their preparations for EU ...
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BELGRADE, Serbia, Jan. 4 The European Union is to decide whether to accept Serbia along with its mainly ethnic-Albanian Kosovo province or recognize an independent Kosovo. via Earth Times
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European Union leaders will offer  Serbia a fast-track route to joining the bloc in a bid to  soothe Balkan tensions over Kosovo's push for independence, a  summit draft showed on Friday.
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EU foreign ministers will debate on Monday whether to sign an interim trade agreement with Serbia -- a move seen as boosting pro-European President Boris Tadic ahead of a February 3 presidential run-off.
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Serbia's threat to turn its back on  EU membership over Kosovo probably has more to do with  electioneering than political reality, incoming EU president  Slovenia said on Thursday.
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The European Union is set to approve a  first step toward closer ties with Serbia and Montenegro Monday  after a Bosnian Serb war crimes suspect turned himself in to  the U.N. tribunal for former Yugoslavia, diplomats said Sunday.
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Serbia's threat to turn its back on EU membership over Kosovo probably has more to do with electioneering than political reality, incoming EU president Slovenia said on Thursday.
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The European Union Monday offered Serbia a political cooperation deal, as Dutch objections held up the signing of a wider-ranging agreement on closer ties.
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European Union foreign ministers set mid-October as the deadline to complete negotiations on the final draft of a treaty aimed at replacing the aborted EU constitution.