Opposition Party: Regime Stops Serbia’s EU Accession

Borko Stefanovic (Beta/Milan Obradovic)

A deputy to the president of the Party of Freedom and Justice, Borko Stefanovic, said on Aug. 30 that the regime spearheaded by the Serbian People’s Party and the Socialist Party of Serbia brought to a halt Serbia’s accession to the European Union (EU), continuing the process of isolation and threatening the country’s economic and national interest.

“In the same week in which the EU voiced a necessity of quicker integration of the Western Balkans into the largest European family, to which we historically belong, the authorities in Serbia heralded a move to join the BRICS bloc. When the president of France, Emmanuel Macron, suggests that the existing visa regime might be reconsidered for Serbian nationals, our incompetent authorities and Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic demonstrate a ‘pub diplomacy’ during the Bled Forum,” Stefanovic said in a release.

“The BRICS is an informal, non-committal, conference-type organization, with no currency, no market, no rules, no decisions, no bodies and no structure, let alone how far it is from Serbia in terms of geography, economy and values,” Stefanovic added.