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Ex-Bosnian Serb army leader Ratko Mladic could well escape prosecution. Mladic is wanted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia for genocide and crimes against humanity for his role in the massacre at Srebrenica (where about 8,000 Bosnian Muslims were executed in 1995), but his arrest might no longer be a prerequisite for Serbia's accession to the EU, reports De Volkskrant. On 14 June, member states’ foreign ministers are to deliberate on the ratification of the Stabilisation and Association Agreement between Serbia and the EU to officialise Belgrade’s candidacy for EU accession. Even the Netherlands, which has long held out alone in demanding that Mladic be brought to justice, has eased up on its stance. Two members of the NGO Democratization Policy Council explain in the daily that the Dutch government “has been under heavy pressure from a number of member states, EU institutions and Washington” to knuckle under.
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