Daily: Prague will accept Serbia's application

The Czech EU presidency will accept Serbia's candidature bid even if the EU Council of Ministers fails to approve the ratification of the SAA. Novi Sad daily Dnevnik also writes on Sunday that the Czech presidency is prepared to accept the application on a state level that Belgrade requests, including the presidential level. Daily: Prague will accept Serbia's application The newspaper quotes its unnamed sources close to the Czech presidency and "well-informed Brussels sources". Czech Vice-Premier Aleksandar Vondra "indirectly confirmed" this, and commented "by using the diplomatic vocabulary", according to this daily. Vondra said that dialogue over this issue between Prague and Belgrade is already underway. "First, I would like to point out that it is up to Serbia to decide whether and when during the Czech presidency of the EU it will submit its membership application to the EU. We have spoken about this with our friends in Belgrade, but I would not like to make the details of our conversations public," said he. "What I can say is that we will not use any artificial means of discouraging Serbia during our presidency, and we will not use technical and procedural reasons to slow down Serbia's European integrations process," Vondra was quoted as saying.

Daily: Prague will accept Serbia's application

The newspaper quotes its unnamed sources close to the Czech presidency and "well-informed Brussels sources".

Czech Vice-Premier Aleksandar Vondra "indirectly confirmed" this, and commented "by using the diplomatic vocabulary", according to this daily.

Vondra said that dialogue over this issue between Prague and Belgrade is already underway.

"First, I would like to point out that it is up to Serbia to decide whether and when during the Czech presidency of the EU it will submit its membership application to the EU. We have spoken about this with our friends in Belgrade, but I would not like to make the details of our conversations public," said he.

"What I can say is that we will not use any artificial means of discouraging Serbia during our presidency, and we will not use technical and procedural reasons to slow down Serbia's European integrations process," Vondra was quoted as saying.