Opposition Coalition: Foreign Investors Not to Leave Serbia if it Refuses Plan for Kosovo

Vojislav Mihajlovic (BETAPHOTO/AMIR HAMZAGIC)

The NADA opposition coalition has described as “entirely groundless” the argument that foreign investors would leave the country if Serbia refused to accept the Franco-German framework for an agreement to normalize relations between Kosovo and Serbia.

The coalition composed of the New Democratic Party of Serbia and the Movement for the Restoration of the Kingdom of Serbia went on to say on Feb. 22 that the arguments like that were designed to “manipulate and intimidate people,” providing “a flimsy justification for capitulation and unworthy trade in national interests.”

The alliance also said that “only 120 out of 1,404 firms left Russia – a mere 8.5 percent of foreign investors whose home countries had introduced sanctions against Russia.” “If a mere 8.5 percent of foreign investors have left Russia, which the West considers an enemy and has imposed sanctions against, the number can only be incomparably lower, if not nil, in Serbia, where no one even discusses sanctions,” says Milos Jovanovic, leader of the New Democratic Party of Serbia.

The leader of the Movement, Vojislav Mihajlovic, said that “capital knows no boundaries or politics,” adding that foreign investors had come to Serbia because of cheap labor and enormous government subsidies.