The President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, said today, regarding the evaluations from the European Commission's report on Serbia's non-compliance with the foreign policy of the European Union (EU), that European officials are right and "congratulated them for noticing it".
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"People are right. I congratulate them for noticing it," Vučić told reporters during a tour of the National Food Festival in Belgrade, not wanting to go into details.
Asked about the statement of former MEP Viola von Kramon, who compared the "electoral fraud" in Georgia to the one in Serbia, he said that he was "shaking at everything she says."
Vučić did not want to comment on the different views of the president of the Socialist Party of Serbia, Ivica Dačić, and the official of that party, Branko Ružić, regarding cooperation with the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS), of which he is a member and former president for many years, stating that he does not want to talk about political issues at the National Food Festival. topics.
The European Commission again recommended the opening of cluster 3 in accession negotiations with Serbia, called on Belgrade to comply with restrictive measures against Russia and pointed out that the overall pace of accession negotiations will continue to depend on reforms in the area of the rule of law and the normalization of relations with Kosovo.
In the annual Report on Serbia, which is part of the Enlargement Package, the European Commission called on Serbia to improve alignment with the EU's common foreign and security policy, including restrictive measures, and to avoid activities and statements that contradict the EU's foreign policy positions.
After the Russian aggression against Ukraine, Serbia aligned itself with some of the EU's positions in international forums, including the UN General Assembly, and continued to cooperate with the EU in preventing the circumvention of sanctions and in providing financial and humanitarian aid to Ukraine.
"However, it still does not comply with any restrictive measures against the Russian Federation and has not complied with most of the High Representative's statements on the issue. It has maintained high-level relations with Russia and intensified relations with China, which raises the question of strategic direction of Serbia," the report states.
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