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The Serbian parliament approved the new government with 127 votes in favour to 27 against (Photo: Konrad Zielinski)

Pro-EU government approved in Serbia

Serbia's parliament on Monday (7 July) approved the country's new government which will be led by prime minister Mirko Cvetkovic and favouring prompt EU membership– but which remains opposed to Kosovo's independence.

The government coalition will be made up of a pro-EU alliance – led by current president Boris Tadic's Democrats (DS) – who won the elections in May, but did not get a big enough majority to form a government on its own, and the reformed Socialists (SPS) of late president S...

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The Serbian parliament approved the new government with 127 votes in favour to 27 against (Photo: Konrad Zielinski)

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