Rehn: SAA should come into force

BRUSSELS -- Olli Rehn says the EC believes that the SAA should enter into force with Serbia following the arrest of Radovan Karadžić. “Although the decision is up to the Council of Ministers, the European Commission’s (EC) view is that application of the Stabilization and Association (SAA) should begin,” the European enlargement commissioner told a joint press conference with Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremić. Rehn said that EU ambassadors would consider further steps at one of their future meetings. Before the meetings, Jeremić said that the arrest of Radovan Karadžić showed that Serbia was “very serious” about the issue of its future in the EU. “Serbia's new government has a rather ambitious European agenda. We are very serious about our future in the EU and we demonstrated it yesterday,” said Jeremić. “We want to become a... [read full story]