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But such criticism is unfounded, given the potential of proposed drugs to cause serious illness or even death. Indeed, phase I trials also called first in man studies are extremely risky and ethically knotty, meaning that they must be handled with the utmost care.

Indeed, it is past time for the EU to take the diplomatic lead in fixing what Dayton left undone. While the new EU s governance structure seems, at least on paper, to lend itself to more robust efforts in the Balkans, diplomatic habits die hard, and the Union will need to overcome its continuing legacy of relying on carrots without sticks to deal with knotty Balkan problems.