Friday 08 July 2011
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Captured Mladic in Serbian Court
Thursday 26 May 2011
For all the wrong reasons
Although Serbia’s eventual ‘decision’ to go and get Ratko Mladic is very welcome news, while 16 years too late, the event again highlights the European Union’s i. failure to respond to violent conflict by ‘enforcing’ peace on our doorstep and ii. its inability and unwillingness to attach ‘conditionality’ on the Union’s vast financial means disbursed as development assistance in countries in the Balkans seeking EU Membership.
EU has wasted a golden opportunity in the Balkans to not only use the carrot of EU Membership, but also use the stick (possible because of the desire to join EU), when development assistance recipient states do not fulfill contractual conditions to such assistance. The people of the Balkans deserve a lot more than what their politicians and EU beaurocrats have been able to offer to date.
Mladic has been arrested at last, but not for right reasons of justice and the Rule-of-Law and their international ‘obligation’ to arrest him, but because of the economic benefits that would accompany EU Candidate country status and eventual Ascescion to the European Union.
Our thoughts go out to all the people of BiH and the families of the victims of Milosevic’s state-sponsorship of operations during the Balkan conflict, Karazdic’s policies in Bosnia and Mladic’s brutality.
Better days are now ahead for the Western Balkans.