Politico: Leaders in Belgrade will have to swallow bitter pills

EU's new strategy "holds out the prospect that two countries could 'potentially' be ready to join the EU by 2025."

These are Serbia and Montenegro, writes the website Politico, in a piece dedicated to EU's enlargement strategy for the Western Balkans, unveiled on Tuesday.

The document "also offers increased support for the four other would-be members from the region that was engulfed by war and civil strife in the 1990s," the article continued.

However, the strategy makes clear to politicians "in all six countries - Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia" that they will "have to get much more serious about establishing the rule of law, cutting out corruption, cracking down on organized crime, settling bilateral disputes and undertaking a range of other democratic changes," the website said, and quotes the document as stating:

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