EU officials and Brammertz clash over Serbia

Serge Brammertz, Chief Prosecutor at the UN War Crimes Tribunal (ICTY) in The Hague, is entangled in a dispute over Serbia with EU enlargement commissioner Stefan Fuele and the bloc's foreign policy head Catherine Ashton.

The EU officials are willing to give, as soon as possible, a political reward to Serbian President Boris Tadic to compensate for Belgrade's last minute compromise on the text of a Kosovo resolution in the UN General Assembly last month. Ashton has promised Tadic to try...