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Support of Visegrad Group to European path of Serbia

Belgrade/Poznan, 5 July 2019

Prime Minister Ana Brnabic said tonight in Poznan, where the EU-Western Balkans Summit has ended, that she is very grateful to Poland, but also to other countries of the Visegrad Group on huge support to European integration of Serbia.

Brnabic told reporters after the closing of the meeting that was held within the framework of the Berlin Process that this process is extremely important and that without it, Serbia and the countries of the region would have no chance to talk to EU states and European leaders at least once a year about European integration and regional cooperation and networking.

Unfortunately, due to everything Pristina has done, we had to focus on some negative things instead on positive ones, she said, adding that since 2014, when the Berlin Process was launched, the regional trade has been bigger than ever.

Brnabic said that she spoke with Prime Minister of Great Britain Theresa Mey about the tariffs that Pristina introduced on products from central Serbia and that May told her that she would urge Kosovo Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj to abolish them.

Brnabic told reporters that she hopes that May will manage to explain to Haradinaj that these tariffs harm first of all the Albanians in Kosovo-Metohija.

She noted that since the introduction of tariffs retail prices have increased by 5.3 percent and that the Kosovo trade deficit has increased by 6.4 percent.

According to Brnabic, populism brought Haradinaj great popularity in the short term, but it is obvious that these measures lead Pristina to self-isolation.

Brnabic said that she spoke with May about the relations between Serbia and the United Kingdom and that May told her that an increasing number of British investors were interested in investing in Serbia, which is why they also discussed today a possible signing of a trade agreement between the two countries.