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Today, Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić condemned the dismissal of the European Parliament report, which calls on his country to fight corruption and organized crime and work for the rule of law if it wants to join the Union. European. , Writes AP.
Photo: FoNet TVAccording to the US agency, Vučić, using “extremely undiplomatic language”, said that the report was a “blatant lie” and that MEPs were “lost in time and space”.
When asked if the report, adopted yesterday in the European Parliament, could slow down Serbia’s accession to the European Union by pressuring the country to recognize Kosovo’s independence, Vucic said “sarcastically” that he couldn’t sleep out of fear, according to the AP. .
The AP also writes that Vučić cited parts of the report on Serbia’s health and praised his own actions in the crisis due to the coronavirus and the procurement of vaccines, mainly from China, which made Serbia one of the top EU countries. in terms of vaccination. population.
Although officially seeking membership in the EU, Serbia is building ever closer ties with China and Russia under the increasingly autocratic Vučić rule, according to the AP.
The agency notes that the European Parliament report warned of the deterioration of press freedom in Serbia and the increase in intimidation and hate speech towards the opposition, independent intellectuals, non-governmental organizations and journalists.
The agency cites a statement from the opposition Freedom and Justice Party, which asserts that Vučić’s words against MEPs are on the “frontier of hate speech”, and that it is now completely clear to everyone that he never cared about the EU.
The AP recalls that before Vučić’s “populist” Serbian Progressive Party came to power in 2012, he was “an ultranationalist who was also Minister of Information during the NATO intervention in 1999” when “the bloody repression of Vučić stopped. separatists in Kosovo. “
The AP agency also recalls that Serbia and its allies Russia and China do not recognize Kosovo’s declaration of independence in 2008, while the United States and most Western countries recognize it.
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