Opposition on Meeting with Kallas: Authorities Do Not Want Serbia in EU

Borko Stefanovic (BETAPHOTO/MILOS MISKOV)

The deputy president of the Freedom and Justice Party, Borko Stefanovic, stated on May 22 that the parliamentary opposition told the EU high representative for foreign policy and security that the Serbian authorities did not want Serbia to join the EU.

“Serbia wants it, but the regime does not,” Stefanovic said at a news conference in the Assembly of Serbia, where the opposition met with Kallas. He stated that Serbia was not its regime, going on to say that the country was an EU candidate in which “top state officials ridicule the EU.”

“It is a good sign that Kallas did not allow to be part of the regime’s propaganda activities, in view of the absence of a joint news conference with Aleksandar Vucic, because, based on previous examples, I believe it to be quite clear that their meeting would have been presented by the regime in a way that depicted Europe as allegedly supporting this regime and not Serbia,” he stated.

In his words, Serbia is not its regime, Vucic is not Serbia and the Freedom and Justice Party has been proving that everywhere, including abroad, for years now. He believes that any act of Serbia’s coming closer to the EU would mean the end of Vucic’s regime.