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| EU to grant Serbia candidate status in February 2012 |
| EU, 10.12.2011 |
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| The European Union (EU) aims to grant Serbia the status of candidate country in February 2012, European Council President Herman Van Rompuy said on Friday.
"We will continue to assess the situation and Serbia's commitment to shared objectives, with the clear aim to grant Serbia the status of candidate country in February 2012 by the Council and to be confirmed by the European Council in the beginning of March 2012," Van Rompuy said at a press conference following the two-day EU summit.
"Serbia has made considerable progress," he said. "It has taken bold steps to bring Europe's most wanted war criminals to international justice. The Belgrade-Pristina dialogue has brought about first results and the implementation of those agreements is moving forward."
Serbia and Kosovo reached an agreement on the EU-developed concept of integrated management for crossing points last Friday at a meeting in Brussels.
Outcomes of the EU-facilitated negotiation and the implementation of the reached agreements are seen as a key issue for Serbia to get the EU candidate status.
According to a conclusion adopted by 27 EU leaders, the European Council would examine and confirm that Serbia has continued to show credible commitment and achieved further progress in moving forward with the implementation in good faith of agreements reached in the dialogue with Kosovo.
Kosovo unilaterally declared independence in 2008, but Belgrade still considers the territory to be a Serbian province.
Tensions in northern Kosovo rose over the summer when Kosovo authorities ordered special police units to take over two border crossings with Serbia, only to meet strong resistance of local Serbs who set a security border post on fire and blocked the roads.
Meanwhile on Friday, Croatia signed here its EU accession treaty and is set to become the bloc's 28th member on July 1, 2013.
"We reconfirmed also the European perspective of the Western Balkans. Not only we officially opened the door for the Croatians, but we also made clear that this door will not close behind them," Van Rompuy said
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