The EU's decision to analyse Serbia and Montenegro's progress towards European integration separately, has been welcomed in Belgrade.
According to Radio Free Europe the Serbian Deputy Prime Minister Miroljub Labus, a critic of the joint state, called this meeting "a historic one for Serbia".
In his opinion the decision removes a potential obstacle to Serbia's EU integration by recognizing that the Serbian and Montenegrin economies have little in common.
In Podgorica, pro-i...
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