The European Union has taken a significant step towards deploying a 1,800-strong police and civilian mission in Serbia's breakaway province of Kosovo following a meeting of EU diplomats in Brussels on Monday.
The move - to be officially announced on Friday (9 February) - came only hours after Serbia's pro-Western president Boris Tadic narrowly won the country's presidential race. He defeated his radical rival Tomislav Nikolic by some 100,000 votes.
According to one EU diplomat,...
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