Daily: Serbia won’t get EU talks date in 2012

Serbia will not get a date for the beginning of the EU accession talks by the end of the year, daily Večernje novosti writes.

Izvor: Veèernje novosti

Thursday, 09.08.2012.

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BELGRADE Serbia will not get a date for the beginning of the EU accession talks by the end of the year, daily Vecernje novosti writes. The daily has learnt that the Serbian authorities will be told in December that the decision will be postponed for 2013. Daily: Serbia won’t get EU talks date in 2012 Aside from the Kosovo conditions, which were listed in the European Commission’s opinion from last year, the EU will closely monitor the independent bodies in Serbia. Serbian Parliament’s European Integrations Committee member Laslo Varga has confirmed the information. “The most important thing now is that a new report of the European Commission awaits us in October, which will certainly be negative, at least in the part referring to the Law on the National Bank of Serbia (NBS). This is an additional problem aside from the Kosovo issue. Europe will again request establishment of independence in some institutions,” he explained. Brussels will also closely monitor the justice reform in Serbia. According to Democratic Party (DS) MP and formed Belgrade team chief Borislav Stefanovic, the biggest obstacle on the EU pathway is the unresolved Kosovo issue. He stressed that Europe had set conditions that Serbia needed to fulfill and that there were no new, secret conditions. “It would be enough to solve the issue of energy and telecommunications and to find a joint modus for the functioning of the Serbian institutions in northern Kosovo, and the EU primarily means the security structures, in order to get a date (for the beginning of the EU talks). However, time is going by and I do not see that the new regime has a clear idea as to how to solve the Kosovo challenges,” he pointed out. Foreign Ministry’s Foreign Policy Council member Vladimir Todoric also believes that the Kosovo issue is the primary one and that everything else is on the backburner. “Just like they have been cutting us slack when it comes to privatization and judicial reform, I am afraid that they would maybe forgive us for various other steps back for the sake of what the majority of the EU members consider pragmatism regarding the Kosovo issue,” he stressed. (Tanjug, file) Vecernje novosti

Daily: Serbia won’t get EU talks date in 2012

Aside from the Kosovo conditions, which were listed in the European Commission’s opinion from last year, the EU will closely monitor the independent bodies in Serbia.

Serbian Parliament’s European Integrations Committee member Laslo Varga has confirmed the information.

“The most important thing now is that a new report of the European Commission awaits us in October, which will certainly be negative, at least in the part referring to the Law on the National Bank of Serbia (NBS). This is an additional problem aside from the Kosovo issue. Europe will again request establishment of independence in some institutions,” he explained.

Brussels will also closely monitor the justice reform in Serbia. According to Democratic Party (DS) MP and formed Belgrade team chief Borislav Stefanović, the biggest obstacle on the EU pathway is the unresolved Kosovo issue. He stressed that Europe had set conditions that Serbia needed to fulfill and that there were no new, secret conditions.

“It would be enough to solve the issue of energy and telecommunications and to find a joint modus for the functioning of the Serbian institutions in northern Kosovo, and the EU primarily means the security structures, in order to get a date (for the beginning of the EU talks). However, time is going by and I do not see that the new regime has a clear idea as to how to solve the Kosovo challenges,” he pointed out.

Foreign Ministry’s Foreign Policy Council member Vladimir Todorić also believes that the Kosovo issue is the primary one and that everything else is on the backburner.

“Just like they have been cutting us slack when it comes to privatization and judicial reform, I am afraid that they would maybe forgive us for various other steps back for the sake of what the majority of the EU members consider pragmatism regarding the Kosovo issue,” he stressed.

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