EU hoping to boost pro-Europe Serbia vote

More than a dozen EU countries have offered to waive costly visafees for Serbian citizens in a thinly veiled attempt topersuade the country's voters to choose a future with the west,reports the Wall Street Journal.

The gesture by 17 EU nations came on the heels of another effortto boost pro-western parties in Sunday's tight parliamentaryvote, it says.

Last week, the EU signed a pre-membership agreement with Serbia,the first step in the long process toward joining the 27-nationbloc.

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