The former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic was flown to the Netherlands to face trial before a U.N. war crimes tribunal in The Hague. Not everybody agrees, but I think this is a major event in Southeast Europe and it will help people turn to the future from the [...]

The arrest of Mr Karadzic seems to highlight a slight move in the former stallmate. The new, European oriented government is a strange coalition of the Mr Tadic’s (right) Pro Europe Bloc that had won the last elections but did not receive a majority and the Socialists, who had been the war party in 1990s. Mr Milosevic, the most wanted war crime suspect before Mr Karadzic has died in March 2006 during his trial in the Hague - he had been the long-time boss of the Socialist party. This party had previously belonged, and even governed with the nationalist and populist parties who are opposed to Serbia’s European integration.