Serbia cannot receive candidate status before 2011, writes WAZ.EUobserver in an article titled “Serbia’s great accession illusion”.

In the best case scenario, without political factors slowing down the process, accession talks could start in 2012 and be concluded in 2016, with actual entry in 2018. However, in view of likely complications down the road, 2020 is a much more realistic estimate, the article say.