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EU Representative in Belgrade: Serbia Would Be Getting 10 Times More Money After Joining EU

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Archive / News | 07.04.22 | access_time 18:02

Nicola Bertolini (BETAPHOTO/MILOS MISKOV)

A representative of the EU Delegation in Serbia, Nicola Bertolini, stated in Belgrade on April 7 that political leaders in the Western Balkans did not have enough vision about the region's integration into the Union and that they needed to be more courageous.

While opening the two-day conference "(Wrong) Perception of the European Union in the Western Balkans," Bertolini, who is the chief of the Department for Cooperation in the EU Delegation in Belgrade, said that people in the Western Balkans believed in the process of EU enlargement, and that "the leaders have to be clearer and take more courageous steps" on the path to the Union.

Bertolini underscored the enormous difference in funding intended for members of the Union and for membership candidates. "When Serbia enters the EU, I hope that would be in five years, but don't take my word for it, it will be getting ten times more funding (from the Union) than it is getting nowadays," Bertolini has stated.

Bertolini, who joined the EU Delegation in Serbia in September, has stated that "it is not very clear" which side the citizens of Serbia wish to lean towards, unlike the people in other countries of the region. "We see the differences in the region's countries. In Serbia, around 50 percent of the people are in favor of the EU, and it is not very clear where the people want to go. In other countries of the region, support to EU membership in much greater," Bertolini added.

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