Djilas: Visit by EP’s Foreign Policy Committee Mission Proves EU Not Forgetting Serbian Citizens

Dragan Djilas (BETAPHOTO/EMIL VAS/EV)

The president of the Freedom and Justice Party, Dragan Djilas, announced on Dec. 10 that a mission of the European Parliament’s (EP) Committee on Foreign Affairs (AFET) would visit Serbia from Jan. 22 to 24, adding that this proved that the European Union had not forgotten the citizens of Serbia.

In the announcement, Djilas thanked “the social democratic caucus and all other caucuses in the European Parliament which support a European Serbia and fight for the value without which there can be no freedom and justice.” “This is one more proof that the European Union has not forgotten the Serbian citizens and that we are witnessing a situation in which Europe is not leaving us behind,” Djilas stated.

The Friends of Western Balkans network, rallying the representatives of the European social democratic community, including some members of the European Parliament, announced on Dec. 8 that the stance toward Serbia was a test of the European Union’s credibility and that this 27-state bloc had to stop looking away from the way President Aleksandar Vucic ruled.

In a statement commenting on the meeting in Belgrade on Nov. 21, the Friends of Western Balkans stated, among other things, that they stood “by the citizens and students of Serbia who demand a country that serves its people and not an autocracy evolving into a dictatorship.”