Vucic: Serbia Needs to Stay On European Path

Aleksandar Vucic (BETAPHOTO/MILOS MISKOV)

Serbia needs to continue its journey to the European Union (EU), because the successes that it has made would have been impossible without its European surroundings, but it will not give up its friendships in the East either, President Aleksandar Vucic said in Belgrade, on May 6.

In a speech on the challenges that Serbia is facing, Vucic said that Serbia “would have never become the fastest-growing European economy without its European surroundings, European investments and the entire political and legal framework that it has gone through.”

“Serbia must continue along its path to the EU and I do not mind if MPs want to motion for a vote of no confidence in me – that requires a two-thirds majority,” Vucic explained, added that staying on the path to the Union did not mean that Serbia would not protect its national interests, or lose its identity, pride and dignity.

The president said that the policy that Serbia had defined after the conflict in Ukraine broke out “is well-thought-out, credible and mindful of the future,” and that the fact that it had not “changed” after 70 days of war confirmed its validity.