Agreement on EU candidate status for Serbia reached

French Foreign Minister Allan Juppe said today in Brussels that the foreign ministers of EU member countries had reached an agreement to grant Serbia EU candidate status.

- The agreement was reached on Monday, and today there were finally no objections -Juppe told reporters during a break at the meeting of EU foreign ministers, AFP reported.

The formal decision will be adopted on Tuesday, and it needs to be confirmed during the EU summit, which would be held on March 1 and 2.