The government in Belgrade does not recognize Kosovo as an independent state and was not asked to do so as a condition of gaining candidate status by the bloc, which is itself divided on the issue.
Serbia, which failed to gain candidate status in December, could do so in March.
Serbia, the best-run and biggest, deserves to gain candidate status in December, especially if it can show more flexibility over its former province of Kosovo.
Though it is one of the few European countries not to have experienced a recession in recent years, worries about crime and corruption have helped to slow Albania's integration into the European Union: after three years of failed attempts, it may gain candidate status in December.
Serbia has made some progress towards EU membership, signing a Stabilization and Association Agreement with Brussels in May 2008, and with full implementation of the Interim Trade Agreement with the EU in February 2010, gained candidate status in March 2012.
In agreement with the CGH findings of 12q gain, candidates within this chromosomal region, such as sarcoma amplification sequence (SAS), human homologue of murine double minutes 2 (MDM2), cyclin-dependent kinase 4 (CDK4), and high-mobility group protein IC (HMGIC) have been shown to be amplified in MFH by molecular analyses (Nilbert et al, 1995).
Serbia and Kosovo, its former province, reached an agreement Friday that helps pave the way for Serbia's gaining official "candidate" status to join the European Union.
They're gaining the candidate's ear.
Not only did they lose all of their seats on the mainland, but 25 candidates lost their deposits (candidates gaining less than five per cent of the vote).
