[mschuster91]

Serbia won't become an EU member anytime soon.

1) its economy is far too screwed up for the EU to include

2) there's still the Kosovo problem, that won't go away soon

3) Croatia and Slovenia will veto an EU membership of Serbia.

It is more than likely that Serbia will turn to Putin instead - and when Putin says "shut them down", Serbia will comply.

[icebraining]

Why do you say that? The negotiations seem to have been progressing since 2011, and Slovenia ratified Serbia's Stabilisation and Association Agreement without delay; they only seemed to have faced opposition from Lithuania.

[mschuster91]

Negotiations went on with Turkey for years, too, and in the end nothing happened.