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The Government of the Republic of Serbia

In the service of citizens

EU integration is guarantee for future investors

Belgrade, 9 May 2005

Serbian Deputy Prime Minister Miroljub Labus said today that the year 2012 is a very realistic date for Serbia’s joining the EU, adding that it represents a big project for which this government, as well as every new government, must fight.

Promotional booth on Belgrade’s Knez Mihajlova Street

Author: Fonet

During his visit to a promotional booth on Belgrade’s Knez Mihajlova Street, set up by the Serbian EU Integration Office to mark Europe Day, Labus stressed the importance of this office in the process of EU integration and added that this day represents an attempt to reach a consensus on EU accession.

EU Integration Office Secretary Tanja Miscevic said that EU integration is the only ticket to a modern Serbia or the state union as well as the only right way to obtain guarantees for future foreign investment.

Minister of Public Administration and Local Self-Government Zoran Loncar has welcomed the fact that the Serbian government has finally started towards EU integration and he expressed the hope that a stabilisation and association agreement will be signed by the end of the year.

Parliament Speaker Predrag Markovic said that everyone must abide by the Resolution on EU Accession but also that every initiative leading to unity in the country is welcome.

Markovic said that an agreement on stabilisation and association calls for the passing of a few hundred laws, but that it is also necessary to build institutions to implement these laws.

On the occasion of Europe Day, the European Commission’s Delegation in Belgrade, the UK Embassy, and the Friedrich Ebert Foundation have set a “Eurostarbus” on Belgrade’s Republic Square and organised a quiz for elementary school students.

The British Council, which also marked its 65th anniversary in Serbia, has set up a stand on Terazije.

Europe Day marks the day when in 1950, French Foreign Minister Robert Schumann read out a declaration in Paris inviting France, Germany and other European countries to unite their steel industries into the first concrete European federation.