EU warns Serbia Ratko Mladić’s funeral is 'important test' for future membership

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EU warns Serbia Ratko Mladić’s funeral is 'important test' for future membership  EU's enlargement chief Marta Kos says Belgrade's handling of the funeral of convicted war criminal Ratko Mladić, known as the Butcher of Bosnia, will be a test for Serbia’s EU path and could impact its membership bid.  READ MORE : http://www.euronews.com/2026/09/04/eu-warns-serbia-ratko-mladics-funeral-is-important-test-for-future-membership  Subscribe to our channel. Euronews is available on Dailymotion in 12 languages

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00:01Senor EU officials have issued a warning to the Serbian government over the funeral of war criminal Radko Mladic,

00:09with the bloc's enlargement chief saying that it will be a very important test in Belgrade's bid to join the

00:15European Union and its future path.

00:17European Commissioner for Enlargement Marta Koss said that the handling of Mladic's funeral will be considered in relation to Belgrade's

00:26alignment with the EU's foreign and security policy, a key requisite for joining the bloc.

00:32Ireland, which currently holds the six-month EU presidency, is moving in the same direction.

00:37A state funeral would be unacceptable. As I understand it, there's not actually a state funeral taking place, but there

00:43may well be senior figures from government memorializing that man, so that's not acceptable.

00:51Mladic died on August the 27th, aged 84, in a UN detention facility in The Hague, where he was serving

00:59a lifetime sentence for crimes against humanity related to the Srebrenica massacre and the siege of Sarajevo.

01:06His body was returned to Serbia in a government plane on Thursday with his coffin carried by soldiers and wrapped

01:13in a Serbian flag shown in images broadcasted on television.

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