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).
