Serbia - Tadic Faces a Close Vote, With Serbia's Pro-EU Course at Stake - by James G. Neuger and Aleksandra Nenadovic
Serbia's pro-western president, Boris Tadic, is fighting a nationalist challenger in a Feb. 3 election that may determine whether the former Yugoslav republic moves closer to the European Union or retreats into isolationism. Tadic is clinging to a slim lead in polls over Tomislav Nikolic, an opponent of hitching Serbia's fate to the EU. To sway voters, the EU this week dangled the prospect of visa-free travel and eventual membership. ``This is a choice about the future, or rather between the future and the past, or between the future and some slow stagnation,'' said Ivan Vejvoda, a former Serb foreign policy adviser who now heads the Balkan Trust for Democracy in Belgrade.
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