Ex-Milosevic ally to be Serbia PM

As Serbia’s parliament prepared to elect Ivica Dacic as prime minister, the former wartime spokesman for Slobodan Milosevic tried to dispel concern that his government could push this country back into the nationalism of the late strongman’s era.

Ivica Dacic, who had earned the nickname “Little Sloba” in the past for his admiration of the former Yugoslav president, pledged once again in his speech to the lawmakers yesterday that he would press on with Serbia’s bid to join the European Union and promote peace and stability in the Balkans.