EU foreign ministers also acknowledge that the only way to prevent the Balkan tinderbox of Serbia, a newly independent Montenegro and a would-be independent Kosovo from exploding again is to hold out to the whole region the prospect of joining their club.

• 欧盟的外交部长们心知肚明：要想防止塞尔维亚的巴尔干火药桶（近独立的黑山共和国和可能独立的科索沃）度引燃，唯一的办法就是给予该地区“入盟”候选国资格。