There were just 12 teams willing to enter this competition including four domestic sides. Neither Russia, the titleholders, nor Germany, bronze medal winners from 2006, arrived to Serbia. The championship drew six IMs and no GM and the top player was Prohászka of Hungary (Elo 2486). Hungary were certain of gold. Potential podium position winners list included Serbia, Croatia, Bulgaria and Slovakia. As it happened, the underestimated Turkish team, who appeared after four year long gap, creeped between the big wigs to grab silver medals behind Hungary to keep Croatia back in third. The Turks took 10 match points out of possible 14 despite very poor start (one draw and one loss). Hungary took easy win even though they lost 3-1 to Bulgaria on day three.

Hungary's success relied mostly on Bánusz's excellent performance at top board (5½/6, Elo 2712) to compensate excepionaly bad shape of IM Bérczes (2450) at board #3 (1/4, Elo performed 1940!). Other notable individual results were scored by FM Roganović (Serbia), Yılmazyerli (Turkey) and Räisänen (Finland) - 6/7 each, interestingly all of them were put at board #3.

Curiously, top two teams, Hungary and Turkey did not meet each other although as much as 7 rounds were played in a twelve team Swiss. Also, none of 28 games played by Slovak juniors ended up with a draw.