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EU membership remains key priority for Serbia

Belgrade, 27 January 2023

Prime Minister Ana Brnabic met today with a delegation of the European Parliament, comprising permanent rapporteur of the EP for Serbia Vladimir Bilcik and representative of the EP in the Inter-Party Dialogue in Serbia Matjaz Nemec.

Although the MEPs came to Belgrade as part of the cooperation between the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia and the European Parliament, the discussion was dominated by the recent draft resolution of the European Parliament on the progress of Serbia for the year 2022 by rapporteur Bilcik, as well as the Resolution on the implementation of the Common Foreign and Security Policy of the EU, which the European adopted by the parliament on 18 January of this year.

In a very open discussion, the Prime Minister pointed out that the draft resolution, as well as the resolution that was recently adopted, are based on perceptions, not on facts, and that they avoid highlighting or diminishing the importance of what was actually done in Serbia.

Among the numerous examples in the draft resolution, she stated that the document does not mention the drafting and adoption of a set of judicial laws, the proposal of which was adopted by the government. Also, the fact that Serbia harmonised its visa policy with the EU in a very short period of time and to a significant extent is not properly evaluated.

Speaking about the Resolution on the implementation of the Common Foreign and Security Policy of the EU, Brnabic particularly pointed out that in that document, completely contrary to the facts, Belgrade and not Pristina is condemned for a series of "escalating moves", in the year in which the prime minister of the temporary institutions in Pristina denied to the Serbs the basic right to vote in Kosovo and Metohija twice, at the moment when, on Christmas Eve, Serbian children were shot in Kosovo and Metohija.

These documents, including the proposed resolution, have nothing to do with the facts, the Prime Minister emphasised and pointed out that, precisely because of this, they affect the attitude of Serbian citizens towards European institutions and the decline of support for EU membership in our country.

Regardless of the content of the documents, however, Serbia's membership in the EU remains our key priority. As the Prime Minister, I will continue to implement reforms on our European path because I believe that this is in the interest of all citizens and a better quality of life, Brnabic said.