European Commission Recommends Serbian EU Membership Talks

Note: I am Serbian-American and all advances in their political situation is of great interest to myself.

With the completion of an European Union negotiated deal between Serbia and Kosovo to normalize relations and grant ethnic Serbs in Northern Kosovo greater autonomy, the European Commission has recommended talks be started for potential Serbian membership in the European Union.

The European Union, which currently consists of twenty-seven nations tied together on economic lines, doesn't have one member from the Balkan States - which are ravaged by ethnic nationalism, economic poverty and the scars of genocidal warfare in the nineties - until the accession of Croatia this July.

Few Balkan nations are even under consideration and only Croatia is set to join the Union

But the Balkans exclusion isn't exactly surprising, considering they have been the main cause of European disharmony the past two decades, although I believe their treatment of Serbia in regards to Kosovo is by every honorable account unjust. However, with the past the past, it is time to welcome Europe's bastard child into the family and where better to begin then normalizing relations with my great grand-father's home.

What say you?