Vučić: Picula speaks often, which is short and stupid, Margetić is a local jerk

Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić said today, regarding the statement by the European Parliament rapporteur for Serbia, Tonino Picula, that Vučić's regime is "the main source of instability in Serbia and the region", that it was enough for him to see "a picture of Picula with a Kalashnikov in his hands" to understand his message.

"I didn't understand his message. He speaks often, and it's short and stupid. They think we should flatter them so they change their language about Serbia. You know how much I care about that," Vučić told reporters from Serbia accompanying him in Chantilly, France, where he is participating in the International Global Politics Conference (WPC).

He said that "officials like Picula are making things up" about his stay during the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) and the wartime "Sarajevo safari" - paying to shoot people.

Journalist Domagoj Margetić wrote about this, whom Vučić said was "a local jerk who was used by the Croatian service to do this."

Vučić said that the media in Serbia "acted professionally" in publishing Picula's statement "even though it is not news," and that the reporter's "sole goal is to destroy Serbia."

"They know that I am always here to defend Sbija and I have no need to flatter and flatter them," he added.

Vučić also stated that Serbia is part of Europe and that it will never be different, and that this is not only a geographical, but also a political and economic determinant.

He told reporters from Serbia that he was talking about "us as Europeans, it will never be different. We are not from Mars. It is not just a geographical, but also a political, geostrategic, economic determinant."

He stated that in Chantilly he spoke with WPC founder Thierry de Montbrial and "many other officials, from Romania to Kazakhstan."

Vučić said that, based on the statements of French President Emmanuel Macron, "it is clearer in which direction Europe will move."

"There are more and more identity issues and issues, holding only foreign affairs, defense and security, and I believe that everything else will go in the direction of further federalization or confederalization, not centralization of Europe," he said.

Vučić added that compared to the United States (US) and China, but also Russia and Turkey, Europe lags behind in artificial intelligence (AI), robotics, the automotive industry and other industries.

"China, America, Turkey and Russia are advancing and becoming more and more powerful, and Europe is losing its influence," he said.

Vučić said he hopes that the WPC conference will be held in Belgrade in the coming years.