Senior EU officials have issued a warning to the Serbian government over the funeral of war criminal Ratko Mladić, with the bloc’s enlargement chief saying that it “will be a very important test” in Belgrade’s bid to join the European Union and its future path.

Mladić died on 27 August aged 84 in a UN detention facility in The Hague, where he was serving a lifetime sentence for crimes against humanity related to the Srebrenica massacre and the siege of Sarajevo.

His body was returned to Serbia in a government plane on Thursday, with his coffin carried by soldiers and wrapped in a Serbian flag, shown in images broadcasted on television.

While…

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