The Experts aren't always right

EXPECT the unexpected. That has long been a useful guide to the Balkans, as the election in Serbia on Sunday May 11th proved. Preliminary results show a big swing in favour of parties campaigning to continue on the path of European integration.

This was totally unforeseen.

Analysts relying on usually accurate polling data had predicted that Serbs would vote for a government which would halt or even reverse Serbia's efforts to join the European Union (EU).

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