Despite current tensions in Serbia's ruling coalition over the handover of a war crimes suspect to the Hague, the country's finance minister argues that in terms of political and economic reforms, Belgrade will be ready to join the EU in about six years.
"After one more term in government, we will be ready. By 2012 we will have fulfilled all the reforms," Mladjan Dinkic told the Financial Times in an interview.
The optimistic remark comes at a time when Mr Dinkic's free-market-or...
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