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LUXEMBOURG — The European Union decided to open Serbia’s path to membership Monday, despite some nations’ suspicions that the country could do more to bring Europe’s most-wanted war-crimes suspect to justice.
The decision asks the European Commission to formally assess Serbia’s suitability for membership, the opening of a process that takes years. But it was an important symbolic moment for Serbia, coming in the face of some members’ objections that Belgrade should continue to be pressed to secure the arrest of Ratko Mladic, a former Bosnian Serb general accused of genocide.
Serbia’s ambitions to join the bloc will remain complicated and politically sensitive as long as Mladic is at large.
