"We'll take countermeasures if EU can't cope with crisis"

If the EU proves unable to manage the refugee crisis Serbia will be forced to introduce "countermeasures," Ivica Dacic warned on Monday.

Izvor: Tanjug

Monday, 21.09.2015.

14:54

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"We'll take countermeasures if EU can't cope with crisis"

"Serbia cannot allow itself to become a concentration camp, fenced off and with shut down traffic, while nobody cares. Is Europe capable of managing an organization like the EU? If not, Serbia will be forced to introduce countermeasures," he told a news conference in Warsaw, Poland, where he opened an OSCE event.

Dacic added that Serbia and Hungary agreed to open a highway after border incidents last week, but that the country is now facing closed border crossings with Croatia.

"I have been trying to speak on the phone with (Croatian) colleague Vesna Pusic and ask why freight traffic has been shut down. Have we now, instead of a Europe without borders, once again gained a Europe with an iron curtain, where one EU country can ban traffic with its neighbors," asked the Serbian minister.

He warned that the migrant crisis, unless Europe reacts, will collapse EU's structures.

According to Dacic, "had European countries used as many soldiers against Islamic State as they are using on refugees, the crisis would have been solved by now."

He also asked whether tear gas, closure of reads and borders count among European values, and then underlined that "this cannot be EU's policy - Serbia is asking the EU to react urgently."

Dacic went on to say that European borders get closed only during wartime, describing EU's reaction to the crisis as being "as if this is happening on another planet."

Dacic asked "whether the solution is for Serbia to build an iron curtain toward the EU," and reminded the news conference of how much the peoples of Europe "rejoiced when the iron curtain collapsed."

The minister "stressed that Serbia does not accept the policy of iron curtains and shutting down of highways." According to him, the migrant situation "shows there's a security crisis, but also one of values, solidarity, and humanness in Europe."

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