Despite predictions to the contrary, the pro-European party of President Boris Tadic won the parliamentary election in Serbia, according to preliminary estimates. However, Tadic still lacks a clear majority to form a government. His opponent, Tomislav Nikolic, wants nationalist parties to join forces to govern.

Tadic declared victory for his Democratic Party (DS) on Sunday evening. "Serbs have undoubtedly confirmed a clear European path. This is a great victory," he said. At the same time, he warned: "The government we are building will not recognize Kosovo."

Ultranationalist Tomislav Nikolic of the Serbian Radical Party (SRS), which favors closer ties to Moscow, warned Tadic that the pro-Europe camp hadn't won yet. He said his party also had very clear possibilities for creating a coalition that would not include the Democratic Party.

This article is pure rhetoric; nationalists are also pro-European but they don't support a bureaucratic federation ruled by a small elite in Brussel. By addressing EU-supporters as "Pro-European," which sounds positive, and nationalists as "ultranationalists," which sounds negative, we're supposed to cheer the direction of Serbia - and, in extension, Kosovo. The "European future" German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier talks about is rather an entrance into "oligarchy future," led by the people who currently support the Kosovo independence. Hamburger restaurants, bureaucratic institutions, empire-controlled currency and cosmopolitan culture will enrich yet another nation.