EU gives Serbia "clear timetable" instead of date
EU foreign ministers will recommend to the European Council to open accession talks with Serbia during the Irish presidency, "if it continues making progress".
Tuesday, 11.12.2012.
11:49
BRUSSELS EU foreign ministers will recommend to the European Council to open accession talks with Serbia during the Irish presidency, "if it continues making progress". The Cypriot presidency said in Brussels late on Tuesday that the EU ministers lauded Serbia's progress and recommended the possibility for the negotiations with Serbia to start during the Irish presidency, which starts on January 1 and will last six months. EU gives Serbia "clear timetable" instead of date The Council will debate this in the spring of next year, and if it appraises that progress had been made, Serbia will be given a date by the end of June. The Council made the same decision when it comes to start Stabilization and Association Agreement the (SAA) talks with Kosovo, it has been reported. Asked whether this meant that the talks would begin in June, or at any other concrete time, Swedish FM Carl Bildt told reporters in Brussels that "this is not about a date, but about a timetable". EU Enlargement Commissioner Stefan Fule wrote on his Twitter account after today's meeting that lasted almost five hours that there was "a clear timetable forSerbia", and specified that "if progress continues opening ofEU accession negotiations (will be) possible in next EU presidency". Bildt also took to Twitter to comment on the session on Tuesday, saying that "Cyprus presidency, Stefan Fule and Cathy (Catherine) Ashton moved all EU enlargement issues successfully forward". According to sources close to today's meeting, "an overwhelming majority of ministers were in favor of setting a date for negotiations with Serbia". According to reports, Germany remains the country that has "the greatest reservations" about giving Serbia a date for the start of its EU membership talks, and wants to see "more tangible results in arranging Belgrade's relations with Pristina", and in particular, this country would like to see the Serbian authorities "start withdrawing their presence" from the northern, Serb part of Kosovo. Meanwhile, Spain and four other EU members who have not recognized the ethnic Albanians' unilateral declaration of independence made in early 2008 today insisted that the ministerial conclusions "take note of, instead of welcome" the European Commission's feasibility study regarding the possibility of launching SAA talks with Pristina. The EU five did not wish the conclusions to contain anything that might refer to an acceptance of Kosovo's "statehood", according to reports. B92 Beta Tanjug
EU gives Serbia "clear timetable" instead of date
The Council will debate this in the spring of next year, and if it appraises that progress had been made,Serbia will be given a date by the end of June.
The Council made the same decision when it comes to start Stabilization and Association Agreement the (SAA) talks with Kosovo, it has been reported.
Asked whether this meant that the talks would begin in June, or at any other concrete time, Swedish FM Carl Bildt told reporters in Brussels that "this is not about a date, but about a timetable".
EU Enlargement Commissioner Stefan Fule wrote on his Twitter account after today's meeting that lasted almost five hours that there was "a clear timetable forSerbia", and specified that "if progress continues opening ofEU accession negotiations (will be) possible in next EU presidency".
Bildt also took to Twitter to comment on the session on Tuesday, saying that "Cyprus presidency, Stefan Fule and Cathy (Catherine) Ashton moved all EU enlargement issues successfully forward".
According to sources close to today's meeting, "an overwhelming majority of ministers were in favor of setting a date for negotiations with Serbia".
According to reports, Germany remains the country that has "the greatest reservations" about giving Serbia a date for the start of its EU membership talks, and wants to see "more tangible results in arranging Belgrade's relations with Priština", and in particular, this country would like to see the Serbian authorities "start withdrawing their presence" from the northern, Serb part of Kosovo.
Meanwhile, Spain and four other EU members who have not recognized the ethnic Albanians' unilateral declaration of independence made in early 2008 today insisted that the ministerial conclusions "take note of, instead of welcome" the European Commission's feasibility study regarding the possibility of launching SAA talks with Priština.
The EU five did not wish the conclusions to contain anything that might refer to an acceptance of Kosovo's "statehood", according to reports.
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