Serb extremist forms pro-EU party

Oct. 23, 2008
FORMER SERB ultra-nationalist leader Tomislav Nikolic, one of the fiercest critics of western support for Kosovo's independence, has stunned compatriots and erstwhile enemies alike in Brussels by forming a new, EU-friendly party.
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