The Chinese herbalist has not yet arrive in the cell being made ready for him. Not only did Radovan Karadzic have the gall to appear on video at alternative medicine conferences, he even had his own website. I don't know for sure this is genuine, but check it out - and check out the title: some things are beyond irony. healingwounds@dragandabic.com Behind the jutting-out razor wire and high walls on the outskirts of the Dutch capital are 37 prisoners, all accused or convicted war criminals. Eight TV trucks and many fellow hacks wait to see when a helicopter may fly over those sturdy walls and deliver a 38th. It probably won't be today: his lawyer says Karadzic has three days to appeal, and he's going to leave it to the very last moment. The prison is a ten-minute drive away from the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia . It is where Karadzic's eventual fate will be pronounced, but it is also where Serbs should turn their ears to hear more immediate news of their country's future. It will come from a man who should understand the complexity of ethnic disputes - he is from Belgium's German-speaking minority. Serge Brammertz took over at the beginning of this year from Carla del Ponte as the tribunal's chief prosecutor. The European Union will take its cue from him. If he says Serbia is "co-operating fully" then it will be rewarded by the EU. So far the EU's foreign ministers have been cautious. They've praised t ...