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EU expansion 1952 - 2007

Serbia
The union of Serbia and Montenegro opened talks on a Stability and Association Agreement (SAA) with the EU - the first step on the path to membership - in October 2005.

But the EU called off the talks in May 2006 because of Belgrade's failure to arrest former Bosnian Serb general Ratko Mladic. Later in the year, Montenegro voted for independence.

The EU says talks with Serbia can resume as soon as Gen Mladic is handed over to the international war crimes tribunal in The Hague. But the country is unlikely to join the EU until at least 2015.

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