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Wednesday, 08.03.2017.

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EP official regrets Serbia is ignoring anti-Russia sanctions

"The European Union needs to be more visible in the western Balkans to counter Russian attempts to destabilize the region," says David McAllister.

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EU Dude

pre 7 godina

I find one thing funny. According to Kosovo newspaper "Koha" (that B92 sometimes likes to mention) from 2007 to 2014 Serbia got from EU 1.4 billion dollars in aid,
---

So what? Just about every Balkan country that is not in the EU got IPA/IPA II funds, Albania €595m IPA & €649 IPA II:

Current beneficiaries are: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Kosovo*, Montenegro, Serbia, and Turkey.

https://ec.europa.eu/neighbourhood-enlargement/instruments/overview_en

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrument_for_Pre-Accession_Assistance

sj

pre 7 godina

I find one thing funny. According to Kosovo newspaper "Koha" (that B92 sometimes likes to mention) from 2007 to 2014 Serbia got from EU 1.4 billion dollars in aid, according to David McAllister. Serbs want to join EU by not doing what EU says, plus some Serbian politicians have even said "Serbia won't join Russia sanctions even when Serbia joins EU".
We have a saying "if you can find a better place tell us and we'll go together". If Serbs can "play" EU then they deserve to join EU without joining Russia sanctions.
(Avni, 8 March 2017 21:09)
The “EU aid” is actually closer to 1.5 billion since it works out at about 220,000,000 per annum. However, this “aid” is to grease political and bureaucratic palms to sing the praises of the EU. This is not enough to buy each citizen a cup of cappuccino.
The EU is already in taters since Hungary and many others have constructed a fence to keep refugees out and Budapest has approved automatic detention of all asylum seekers. Note that this breaks not one but several of EU sacred laws starting with the Schengen agreement.
The EU will in future have to accept changes otherwise it will rip apart. The EU will buckle to Serbia’s demands of no sanctions against Russia, no recognition of Kosovo and all free trade agreements Serbia has signed stays as is. I repeat, EU representatives have been saying no talks until Kosovo is recognised, but hey they are into 5 articles so far and will finish up 10 or maybe even 15 by the end of 2017.

Joni

pre 7 godina

Europe will lose the patience with Serbia.
And when that will happen Europe will say : Ok !
Visa regime for Serbs, No more financial aid, different and difficult trade agreement, oil embargo.. - out of Europe.
I wonder how many Serbs would leave the hateful Europe and migrate in Russia?
I think UK will propose that, soon or later they are not to patient in general.
Serbia is known for sucking - Is the only nation which should not support Russia over Crimea - because is like not support herself over Kosovo.

АЛБАНЕЦ

pre 7 godina

I find nothing heroic in Serbia's behavior over the sanctions. Because it's a quite natural attitude if we are brothers. We cannot trade our relations like Ari Gold offers as it's not the Serbian way nor the Russian. Besides without Russia behind Serbia will become helpless in or outside the EU. To say nothing that the membership idea is becoming a personal idea fix of Vucic only. In the German block there will be discipline and order but little of the national states I think. To say nothing of the destroyed economics like in Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Bulgaria. Romania and partly Hungaria. They destroy your plants long before you are let in. Look at the Ukraine, Croatia, Moldova, Georgia and other idiots. So Russia is the insurance sertificate for Serbia.

Bullwinkle

pre 7 godina

"The European Union needs to be more visible in the western Balkans to counter Russian attempts to destabilize the region," says David McAllister.

Make sure to keep a close eye on Boris and Natasha.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQhggbxh9og

Revelation

pre 7 godina

The EU doesn't even offer Serbia free trade agreement yet demands all these things. That's called having your cake and eating it.

EU Citizen

pre 7 godina

It's time for the EU to pull the plug on Serbia so she can experience what it is to live without economic life support. We have wasted enough time and money on this useless ingrate. There are many other countries who share EU values and deserve to be members of the EU. Why allow a dishonest freeloader to continue to benefit when Serbia has made it clear they have no intention of abiding by EU rules.

Stupid hypocrite

pre 7 godina

Tony (a Brit currently working in Berlin)

How is a serb from Brit working in Berlin ? Why don't you working in Moscow , or Belgrade? Oh yea i'm a stupid hypocrite

Avni

pre 7 godina

I find one thing funny. According to Kosovo newspaper "Koha" (that B92 sometimes likes to mention) from 2007 to 2014 Serbia got from EU 1.4 billion dollars in aid, according to David McAllister. Serbs want to join EU by not doing what EU says, plus some Serbian politicians have even said "Serbia won't join Russia sanctions even when Serbia joins EU".
We have a saying "if you can find a better place tell us and we'll go together". If Serbs can "play" EU then they deserve to join EU without joining Russia sanctions.

Alex

pre 7 godina

What is EU offering to Serbia? other then ultimatums.
Few euros ok. but it is all short-lived. Nothing to help SErbia strengthen as a state or nation or people to live really better.
For instance EU is the one who wants to isolate SErbia -
Why is EU blocking fast railway between Budapest and Serbian border?
Why did EU block south stream?
Why EU does not build a car plant in Serbia? rather then making them all in Slovakia Hungary and Poland.
I am here not even mentioning:
1-2 Million Serbs killed and expelled from EU (what was then Croatia and is now EU).
Kosovo province taken away from Serbia after brutal bombing by NATO/EU

Serbia needs to see something better from EU then just bombs and concerts.

Tony (a Brit currently working in Berlin)

pre 7 godina

The danger, Herr McAllister, comes not from Moscow but from Berlin's domination of the EU and their trying to extend their influence in this region. You credit the people of the Western Balkans with little intelligence if you expect them to believe this type of silly propaganda. It may have worked at the time of the Third Reich, but people are far more sophisticated now (yes, even in Germany). I am, of course, not speaking for the Serbian government, but I am sure that Serbia will align its foreign policy with that of the EU if, and when, it becomes a member of the EU and after that if, and when, it agrees with this policy. As a sovereign state Serbia can, and will, carry out its foreign policy as it choses. If you or the EU don't like it, you can lump it.

EU Dude

pre 7 godina

I suspect German MEP is full of s**t, but as someone who is touted as a replacement for Frau Merkel in the CDU, he's worth keeping an eye on.

As for Serbia not copying EU foreign policy, it is not a member state, so it won't do so until it become one. Or is that another area of EU membership rules that will be freely reinterpreted - like 'good neighborly relations' - to mean that it must?

Skenderbeu 1444

pre 7 godina

One of the gems of Enver Hoxha's deep marxist-leninist thought was his book "The anglo-american danger for Albania". All this very cheap propaganda could be summed as The russian danger for the balkans and it will become a boomerang for these dickheads of Europe. There is no russian danger and the more you bark the more people dream to wave flowers to russians should they ever decide to come. So think twice before repeating as parrots Enver's brilliant expertise on geopolitics.

ivan

pre 7 godina

Are you for f***ing real? Russia supports Serbia's territorial integrity while the EU/US wants to dismember it. Russia just finished sending 6 MiGs, what has the EU/US given? Take your crappy duplicitous EU and shove it you know where.

Al

pre 7 godina

Who is that is trying and keeps trying to destabilise the region---!? Russia...!? Dear Mr. McAllister, do you think that we (people of the Balkans) are so naive and ignorant...!? Please you and your colleagues should start respecting more our intelligence, and stop being so hypocritical...With Regards

ivan

pre 7 godina

Are you for f***ing real? Russia supports Serbia's territorial integrity while the EU/US wants to dismember it. Russia just finished sending 6 MiGs, what has the EU/US given? Take your crappy duplicitous EU and shove it you know where.

Al

pre 7 godina

Who is that is trying and keeps trying to destabilise the region---!? Russia...!? Dear Mr. McAllister, do you think that we (people of the Balkans) are so naive and ignorant...!? Please you and your colleagues should start respecting more our intelligence, and stop being so hypocritical...With Regards

Skenderbeu 1444

pre 7 godina

One of the gems of Enver Hoxha's deep marxist-leninist thought was his book "The anglo-american danger for Albania". All this very cheap propaganda could be summed as The russian danger for the balkans and it will become a boomerang for these dickheads of Europe. There is no russian danger and the more you bark the more people dream to wave flowers to russians should they ever decide to come. So think twice before repeating as parrots Enver's brilliant expertise on geopolitics.

Alex

pre 7 godina

What is EU offering to Serbia? other then ultimatums.
Few euros ok. but it is all short-lived. Nothing to help SErbia strengthen as a state or nation or people to live really better.
For instance EU is the one who wants to isolate SErbia -
Why is EU blocking fast railway between Budapest and Serbian border?
Why did EU block south stream?
Why EU does not build a car plant in Serbia? rather then making them all in Slovakia Hungary and Poland.
I am here not even mentioning:
1-2 Million Serbs killed and expelled from EU (what was then Croatia and is now EU).
Kosovo province taken away from Serbia after brutal bombing by NATO/EU

Serbia needs to see something better from EU then just bombs and concerts.

EU Dude

pre 7 godina

I suspect German MEP is full of s**t, but as someone who is touted as a replacement for Frau Merkel in the CDU, he's worth keeping an eye on.

As for Serbia not copying EU foreign policy, it is not a member state, so it won't do so until it become one. Or is that another area of EU membership rules that will be freely reinterpreted - like 'good neighborly relations' - to mean that it must?

Tony (a Brit currently working in Berlin)

pre 7 godina

The danger, Herr McAllister, comes not from Moscow but from Berlin's domination of the EU and their trying to extend their influence in this region. You credit the people of the Western Balkans with little intelligence if you expect them to believe this type of silly propaganda. It may have worked at the time of the Third Reich, but people are far more sophisticated now (yes, even in Germany). I am, of course, not speaking for the Serbian government, but I am sure that Serbia will align its foreign policy with that of the EU if, and when, it becomes a member of the EU and after that if, and when, it agrees with this policy. As a sovereign state Serbia can, and will, carry out its foreign policy as it choses. If you or the EU don't like it, you can lump it.

Revelation

pre 7 godina

The EU doesn't even offer Serbia free trade agreement yet demands all these things. That's called having your cake and eating it.

Avni

pre 7 godina

I find one thing funny. According to Kosovo newspaper "Koha" (that B92 sometimes likes to mention) from 2007 to 2014 Serbia got from EU 1.4 billion dollars in aid, according to David McAllister. Serbs want to join EU by not doing what EU says, plus some Serbian politicians have even said "Serbia won't join Russia sanctions even when Serbia joins EU".
We have a saying "if you can find a better place tell us and we'll go together". If Serbs can "play" EU then they deserve to join EU without joining Russia sanctions.

sj

pre 7 godina

I find one thing funny. According to Kosovo newspaper "Koha" (that B92 sometimes likes to mention) from 2007 to 2014 Serbia got from EU 1.4 billion dollars in aid, according to David McAllister. Serbs want to join EU by not doing what EU says, plus some Serbian politicians have even said "Serbia won't join Russia sanctions even when Serbia joins EU".
We have a saying "if you can find a better place tell us and we'll go together". If Serbs can "play" EU then they deserve to join EU without joining Russia sanctions.
(Avni, 8 March 2017 21:09)
The “EU aid” is actually closer to 1.5 billion since it works out at about 220,000,000 per annum. However, this “aid” is to grease political and bureaucratic palms to sing the praises of the EU. This is not enough to buy each citizen a cup of cappuccino.
The EU is already in taters since Hungary and many others have constructed a fence to keep refugees out and Budapest has approved automatic detention of all asylum seekers. Note that this breaks not one but several of EU sacred laws starting with the Schengen agreement.
The EU will in future have to accept changes otherwise it will rip apart. The EU will buckle to Serbia’s demands of no sanctions against Russia, no recognition of Kosovo and all free trade agreements Serbia has signed stays as is. I repeat, EU representatives have been saying no talks until Kosovo is recognised, but hey they are into 5 articles so far and will finish up 10 or maybe even 15 by the end of 2017.

Bullwinkle

pre 7 godina

"The European Union needs to be more visible in the western Balkans to counter Russian attempts to destabilize the region," says David McAllister.

Make sure to keep a close eye on Boris and Natasha.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQhggbxh9og

АЛБАНЕЦ

pre 7 godina

I find nothing heroic in Serbia's behavior over the sanctions. Because it's a quite natural attitude if we are brothers. We cannot trade our relations like Ari Gold offers as it's not the Serbian way nor the Russian. Besides without Russia behind Serbia will become helpless in or outside the EU. To say nothing that the membership idea is becoming a personal idea fix of Vucic only. In the German block there will be discipline and order but little of the national states I think. To say nothing of the destroyed economics like in Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Bulgaria. Romania and partly Hungaria. They destroy your plants long before you are let in. Look at the Ukraine, Croatia, Moldova, Georgia and other idiots. So Russia is the insurance sertificate for Serbia.

Joni

pre 7 godina

Europe will lose the patience with Serbia.
And when that will happen Europe will say : Ok !
Visa regime for Serbs, No more financial aid, different and difficult trade agreement, oil embargo.. - out of Europe.
I wonder how many Serbs would leave the hateful Europe and migrate in Russia?
I think UK will propose that, soon or later they are not to patient in general.
Serbia is known for sucking - Is the only nation which should not support Russia over Crimea - because is like not support herself over Kosovo.

Stupid hypocrite

pre 7 godina

Tony (a Brit currently working in Berlin)

How is a serb from Brit working in Berlin ? Why don't you working in Moscow , or Belgrade? Oh yea i'm a stupid hypocrite

EU Citizen

pre 7 godina

It's time for the EU to pull the plug on Serbia so she can experience what it is to live without economic life support. We have wasted enough time and money on this useless ingrate. There are many other countries who share EU values and deserve to be members of the EU. Why allow a dishonest freeloader to continue to benefit when Serbia has made it clear they have no intention of abiding by EU rules.

EU Dude

pre 7 godina

I find one thing funny. According to Kosovo newspaper "Koha" (that B92 sometimes likes to mention) from 2007 to 2014 Serbia got from EU 1.4 billion dollars in aid,
---

So what? Just about every Balkan country that is not in the EU got IPA/IPA II funds, Albania €595m IPA & €649 IPA II:

Current beneficiaries are: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Kosovo*, Montenegro, Serbia, and Turkey.

https://ec.europa.eu/neighbourhood-enlargement/instruments/overview_en

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrument_for_Pre-Accession_Assistance

Joni

pre 7 godina

Europe will lose the patience with Serbia.
And when that will happen Europe will say : Ok !
Visa regime for Serbs, No more financial aid, different and difficult trade agreement, oil embargo.. - out of Europe.
I wonder how many Serbs would leave the hateful Europe and migrate in Russia?
I think UK will propose that, soon or later they are not to patient in general.
Serbia is known for sucking - Is the only nation which should not support Russia over Crimea - because is like not support herself over Kosovo.

Al

pre 7 godina

Who is that is trying and keeps trying to destabilise the region---!? Russia...!? Dear Mr. McAllister, do you think that we (people of the Balkans) are so naive and ignorant...!? Please you and your colleagues should start respecting more our intelligence, and stop being so hypocritical...With Regards

Skenderbeu 1444

pre 7 godina

One of the gems of Enver Hoxha's deep marxist-leninist thought was his book "The anglo-american danger for Albania". All this very cheap propaganda could be summed as The russian danger for the balkans and it will become a boomerang for these dickheads of Europe. There is no russian danger and the more you bark the more people dream to wave flowers to russians should they ever decide to come. So think twice before repeating as parrots Enver's brilliant expertise on geopolitics.

Alex

pre 7 godina

What is EU offering to Serbia? other then ultimatums.
Few euros ok. but it is all short-lived. Nothing to help SErbia strengthen as a state or nation or people to live really better.
For instance EU is the one who wants to isolate SErbia -
Why is EU blocking fast railway between Budapest and Serbian border?
Why did EU block south stream?
Why EU does not build a car plant in Serbia? rather then making them all in Slovakia Hungary and Poland.
I am here not even mentioning:
1-2 Million Serbs killed and expelled from EU (what was then Croatia and is now EU).
Kosovo province taken away from Serbia after brutal bombing by NATO/EU

Serbia needs to see something better from EU then just bombs and concerts.

EU Dude

pre 7 godina

I suspect German MEP is full of s**t, but as someone who is touted as a replacement for Frau Merkel in the CDU, he's worth keeping an eye on.

As for Serbia not copying EU foreign policy, it is not a member state, so it won't do so until it become one. Or is that another area of EU membership rules that will be freely reinterpreted - like 'good neighborly relations' - to mean that it must?

Tony (a Brit currently working in Berlin)

pre 7 godina

The danger, Herr McAllister, comes not from Moscow but from Berlin's domination of the EU and their trying to extend their influence in this region. You credit the people of the Western Balkans with little intelligence if you expect them to believe this type of silly propaganda. It may have worked at the time of the Third Reich, but people are far more sophisticated now (yes, even in Germany). I am, of course, not speaking for the Serbian government, but I am sure that Serbia will align its foreign policy with that of the EU if, and when, it becomes a member of the EU and after that if, and when, it agrees with this policy. As a sovereign state Serbia can, and will, carry out its foreign policy as it choses. If you or the EU don't like it, you can lump it.

EU Citizen

pre 7 godina

It's time for the EU to pull the plug on Serbia so she can experience what it is to live without economic life support. We have wasted enough time and money on this useless ingrate. There are many other countries who share EU values and deserve to be members of the EU. Why allow a dishonest freeloader to continue to benefit when Serbia has made it clear they have no intention of abiding by EU rules.

ivan

pre 7 godina

Are you for f***ing real? Russia supports Serbia's territorial integrity while the EU/US wants to dismember it. Russia just finished sending 6 MiGs, what has the EU/US given? Take your crappy duplicitous EU and shove it you know where.

Avni

pre 7 godina

I find one thing funny. According to Kosovo newspaper "Koha" (that B92 sometimes likes to mention) from 2007 to 2014 Serbia got from EU 1.4 billion dollars in aid, according to David McAllister. Serbs want to join EU by not doing what EU says, plus some Serbian politicians have even said "Serbia won't join Russia sanctions even when Serbia joins EU".
We have a saying "if you can find a better place tell us and we'll go together". If Serbs can "play" EU then they deserve to join EU without joining Russia sanctions.

Stupid hypocrite

pre 7 godina

Tony (a Brit currently working in Berlin)

How is a serb from Brit working in Berlin ? Why don't you working in Moscow , or Belgrade? Oh yea i'm a stupid hypocrite

sj

pre 7 godina

I find one thing funny. According to Kosovo newspaper "Koha" (that B92 sometimes likes to mention) from 2007 to 2014 Serbia got from EU 1.4 billion dollars in aid, according to David McAllister. Serbs want to join EU by not doing what EU says, plus some Serbian politicians have even said "Serbia won't join Russia sanctions even when Serbia joins EU".
We have a saying "if you can find a better place tell us and we'll go together". If Serbs can "play" EU then they deserve to join EU without joining Russia sanctions.
(Avni, 8 March 2017 21:09)
The “EU aid” is actually closer to 1.5 billion since it works out at about 220,000,000 per annum. However, this “aid” is to grease political and bureaucratic palms to sing the praises of the EU. This is not enough to buy each citizen a cup of cappuccino.
The EU is already in taters since Hungary and many others have constructed a fence to keep refugees out and Budapest has approved automatic detention of all asylum seekers. Note that this breaks not one but several of EU sacred laws starting with the Schengen agreement.
The EU will in future have to accept changes otherwise it will rip apart. The EU will buckle to Serbia’s demands of no sanctions against Russia, no recognition of Kosovo and all free trade agreements Serbia has signed stays as is. I repeat, EU representatives have been saying no talks until Kosovo is recognised, but hey they are into 5 articles so far and will finish up 10 or maybe even 15 by the end of 2017.

Revelation

pre 7 godina

The EU doesn't even offer Serbia free trade agreement yet demands all these things. That's called having your cake and eating it.

АЛБАНЕЦ

pre 7 godina

I find nothing heroic in Serbia's behavior over the sanctions. Because it's a quite natural attitude if we are brothers. We cannot trade our relations like Ari Gold offers as it's not the Serbian way nor the Russian. Besides without Russia behind Serbia will become helpless in or outside the EU. To say nothing that the membership idea is becoming a personal idea fix of Vucic only. In the German block there will be discipline and order but little of the national states I think. To say nothing of the destroyed economics like in Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Bulgaria. Romania and partly Hungaria. They destroy your plants long before you are let in. Look at the Ukraine, Croatia, Moldova, Georgia and other idiots. So Russia is the insurance sertificate for Serbia.

Bullwinkle

pre 7 godina

"The European Union needs to be more visible in the western Balkans to counter Russian attempts to destabilize the region," says David McAllister.

Make sure to keep a close eye on Boris and Natasha.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQhggbxh9og

EU Dude

pre 7 godina

I find one thing funny. According to Kosovo newspaper "Koha" (that B92 sometimes likes to mention) from 2007 to 2014 Serbia got from EU 1.4 billion dollars in aid,
---

So what? Just about every Balkan country that is not in the EU got IPA/IPA II funds, Albania €595m IPA & €649 IPA II:

Current beneficiaries are: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Kosovo*, Montenegro, Serbia, and Turkey.

https://ec.europa.eu/neighbourhood-enlargement/instruments/overview_en

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrument_for_Pre-Accession_Assistance