Serbia's Socialist Party has broken off coalition talks with the nationalist bloc because their differences over the path to European Union membership cannot be reconciled, its leader said today.
Socialist leader Ivica Dacic told state news agency Tanjug there was "no common view regarding the key issues".
Options for the country now were a new election, a Socialist coalition with the pro-European bloc, or a government without the Socialists.
The development formally paves the way for a pact with the pro-EU Democratic Party. Serbian media and political sources have said the Democrats and Socialists had been in secret talks for weeks.