Ratko Mladić funeral exposes gap between Serbia’s EU ambitions and political reality

BELGRADE — Serbia’s hopes of joining the EU were further threatened Monday by the funeral of a notorious army commander convicted of war crimes and the Srebrenica genocide. Ratko Mladić’s send-off — attended by thousands of people in Belgrade on a balmy September afternoon — drew condemnation from Brussels, which is already at odds with Serbia over its democratic decline, its crackdown on press and judicial freedoms and failure to sanction Russia for the war against Ukraine. “Any glorification o