PM hails "most revolutionary day in recent history"

PM hails "most revolutionary day in recent history"

According to him, it is "a statement, clear and unambiguous - about the end of a road, which, in our case, lasted for two hundred years. About rediscovering something long lost. About Cadmus who, unlike in the myth, met with his sister. About Serbia, where it belongs. In Europe."

He mentioned various historical milestones in Serbia during the past two centuries, adding, "and as of today starts a new process, no less profound, but much faster because the whole world is faster, and because former divisions no longer apply."

Serbia is entering such a world today, observed Vucic, and argued that therefore it needs to be "faster, smarter, more diligent, more entrepreneurial, more imaginative, more prepared."

"Any ideological approach to what is progress, to what is development, must be rejected, because progress and development will be the most important words in the future of Serbia," Vucic wrote, noting there was "room in Europe for the right and for the center and for the left, but not for 'us' and 'you', for archenemies and hatred."

"That is why reforms are welcome in Europe, and Serbia must continue them," believes the prime minister, convinced that "this no longer needs to be a question of the country's economic or any other survival, but a matter of continuing rapid development, one that will allow us to catch up with those who have gained on us."

"Every day we must continue to get closer," he said, adding, "we must not forget that it was work - incessant and difficult - that brought us to this day, to Europe, and it must not stop."

The reason, he said, is that "work makes the difference between Serbia of the myth, in the sky, and Serbia of the reality, in Europe."

The prime minister then recalled "Victor Hugo's article 'For Serbia'," which he said the French novelist published on the eve of the Berlin Congress, writing about "the need to create the Federal States of Europe, the European Federation, fraternity, democracy, and all this almost a century before the father of all prime ministers, Winston Churchill, repeated the same aspiration in Geneva."

Vucic concluded by writing, "Victor Hugo is great. A maestro who says: 'The future is God, pulled by tigers.' I remember that. Now we can really get going. Into the Future. The one pulled by - Serbia."