European Movement in Serbia: Operational Team for EU Accession Set up to Keep up Pretense of Serbia’s EU Accession

Vladimir Medjak (BetaPhoto/Amir Hamzagic)

Vladimir Medjak, vice president of the European Movement in Serbia, said Jan. 30 that opening Cluster 6 (foreign policy), one of the goals that the newly established Operational Team for Serbia’s Accession to the European Union will work on, meant introducing sanctions against Russia.

He told the BETA News Agency’s European Service that it was a political issue, which had nothing to do with the coordinating team. Cluster 6 consists of two negotiating chapters - Chapter 30 (external economic relations) and Chapter 31 (foreign, security and defense policy), and the Operational Team has included preparations for the latter in its set of goals.

The Operational Team of the Government of Serbia, set up at the initiative of President Aleksandar Vucic, met for the first time on Jan. 30 and reviewed priorities and working methodology, as well as an activity plan for meeting obligations within the negotiating process with the EU. “I believe this is just to keep up the pretense of Serbia’s EU accession,” Medjak said for BETA.