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Applications for "Europe for Everyone" open until November 25

Belgrade, 23 November 2009

Serbian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Science and Technological Development Bozidar Djelic said today that there are two more days left for citizens to apply for the "Europe for Everyone" project, as part of which 50 candidates will have an opportunity to travel to the EU.

Speaking at a lecture about the importance of visa liberalisation, held at the Faculty of Political Sciences, Djelic called on students to submit applications for people they know who have never had an opportunity to travel to the EU, and who did something important for their community.

The First Deputy Prime Minister said that the 50 selected candidates will travel to the EU on the first day of the abolishment of visas and will also visit Rome, Berlin, Paris and Brussels.

He reiterated that Serbia's strategic priority is EU membership and that Serbia will never recognise the independence of Kosovo, against which it will fight with all legal means. According to polls, this is also the position of 75% of Serbia's citizens.

Speaking about consensus on the unfreezing of the interim trade agreement and the Dutch position on that issue, Djelic said that Serbia is doing its level best to complete cooperation with the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY).

According to Djelic, Dutch Foreign Minister Maxime Verhagen will, after receiving a report from ICTY Chief Prosecutor Serge Brammertz, evaluate Serbia's cooperation with the tribunal, and not the Dutch parliament, as has been the case so far.