EU welcomes Serb apology

An apology passed by the Serbian parliament for the 1995 Srebrenica massacre was received favourably by the European Union but met with some reservation in the European Parliament for not going far enough.

Catherine Ashton and Stefan Fuele, the EU's foreign policy chief and enlargement commissioner respectively, welcomed the move in a joint statement. "This is an important step for the country in facing its recent past, a process which is difficult but essential for Serbian society to ...