"Serbia doesn't meet EU requirements"

German Chancellor Angela Merkel stated on Friday that Serbia did not meet the conditions for obtaining the EU candidate status at the moment.

Izvor: Tanjug

Friday, 02.12.2011.

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German Chancellor Angela Merkel stated on Friday that Serbia did not meet the conditions for obtaining the EU candidate status at the moment. She called on the Serbian government to shift its orientation. "Serbia doesn't meet EU requirements" “At the moment Serbia does not meet the conditions of the EU accession process,” Merkel said in a release issued by the German government ahead of the forthcoming EU summit, which is due on Friday, December 9. According to Deutsche Welle, the German chancellor qualified the recent conflicts in northern Kosovo as unacceptable and recalled that good cooperation with neighbors was also one of the criteria for the EU enlargement. “Good neighborly relations and regional cooperation are a part of the European Union enlargement policy according to the Copenhagen criteria. In the long term we do not want only Serbia but also Kosovo in the European Union and to maintain European Union’s ability to function. Therefore, Serbia’s path to the European Union leads only through normalization of relations with Kosovo,” she stressed. Merkel repeated that the EU and the German government had formulated their expectations and concrete steps in time. “I am very sorry that Serbia has not met those expectations so far and therefore has not fulfilled the preconditions for obtaining of the candidate status,” she explained. The German chancellor pointed out that “Serbia contributed to an atmosphere in which German KFOR troops were attacked and wounded with firearms in the previous days”. “I say it is unacceptable,” Merkel stressed. German media report that clashes between Kosovo Serbs and KFOR troops have been going on for weeks at the administrative crossings between Kosovo and central Serbia and that two German soldiers were shot at on Monday. Serbia is hoping to get the EU candidate status at the EU summit on December 9. Angela Merkel (Beta/AP)

"Serbia doesn't meet EU requirements"

“At the moment Serbia does not meet the conditions of the EU accession process,” Merkel said in a release issued by the German government ahead of the forthcoming EU summit, which is due on Friday, December 9.

According to Deutsche Welle, the German chancellor qualified the recent conflicts in northern Kosovo as unacceptable and recalled that good cooperation with neighbors was also one of the criteria for the EU enlargement.

“Good neighborly relations and regional cooperation are a part of the European Union enlargement policy according to the Copenhagen criteria. In the long term we do not want only Serbia but also Kosovo in the European Union and to maintain European Union’s ability to function. Therefore, Serbia’s path to the European Union leads only through normalization of relations with Kosovo,” she stressed.

Merkel repeated that the EU and the German government had formulated their expectations and concrete steps in time.

“I am very sorry that Serbia has not met those expectations so far and therefore has not fulfilled the preconditions for obtaining of the candidate status,” she explained.

The German chancellor pointed out that “Serbia contributed to an atmosphere in which German KFOR troops were attacked and wounded with firearms in the previous days”.

“I say it is unacceptable,” Merkel stressed.

German media report that clashes between Kosovo Serbs and KFOR troops have been going on for weeks at the administrative crossings between Kosovo and central Serbia and that two German soldiers were shot at on Monday.

Serbia is hoping to get the EU candidate status at the EU summit on December 9.

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