Government gives SRS resolution thumbs down

If this goes through today, it will be a great victory for Serbia and those loyal to territorial integrity.

This will put an end to the EU/US plan as it needs Serbia within the EU to complete it.

Serbia holds the key and if the Albanians ever dream of joining the EU, they can only do so with Kosovo as an integral part of Serbia.

nikshala wrote:

If EU is so bad, why don't you move to Serbia?
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I am moving to Belgrade in August and my opinion will not change one bit!

The stance to join only with Kosovo as an integral part will put the pressure back on those forces attempting to split Serbia. Further negotiations will be welcomed.

So why are the Albanians so eager to join the EU? So they can leave Kosovo to work in some Western country? That will be the likely outcome I think.

If I could I would pull my own country - Ireland - out of the EU. We have been members since 1973.

In the beginning, the Union was about countries co-operating together economically for the benefit of all. This was and remains a good idea. But the terms of the deal have changed.

Driven forward by the large countries, the EU is now being transformed into a large superstate including political and military union. The small countries like my own are losing their distinctive character and also their influence. If the Lisbon Treaty is ratified this process will be almost complete.

The fact that only one country is having a referendum on Lisbon demonstrates how the practise of democracy within the EU has been terminally undermined. I have a copy of the Lisbon Treaty and it is impossible to understand what it means because in order to do so you would have to read all the previous treaties. People do not know what they are signing up to.

I have lived in Ireland all my life and have seen all the things that I love about this country disappear gradually. The pursuit of free-market economics by an increasingly centralised EU has virtually destroyed the respect for the citizen that used to be characteristic of Irish society. People in Ireland are now dying because our EU-friendly government are demolishing our public health service so that private hospitals, built and owned by big business, can reap the benefits and generate huge profits.

My advice to Serbia would be to forget about the EU and concentrate on building economic ties with the majority of countries in the world who are not part of this US/EU axis. It is possible to be prosperous and keep your soul.

There is a real alternative to EU membership. Go for it!

MLKG,

"…Quite the hypocrite to live in the UK and tell us here what is 'good' for us..."

Would you consider posibility that those who live and work in the EU maybe know much more about reality of it, then most of Serbs in Serbia? Knowing both worlds well, they might indeed be in a position to make good gugement of pros and cons.

Giacomo,

"… EU integration for serbia would mean less benefits for ordinary citizens…. "

As you probably know, most of these same politicians tried for quite a few years to compile with every whim which came from Washington and Brussels but it didn't bring them any good. Just sticks, carrots nowhere to be seen. They had enough of this pushing around.

Can you name a few benefits for Serb citizens so far?

"… One question, if Kosovo was so important why nothing has been done over the past 6 years to re-build a relationship between Pristina and Belgrade?…"

That is question for Albanians and their sponsors. As Americans promised independence, Albanians were not interested in anything else.

MLKG... Like I said, if this goes through then Serbia can only join the EU with Kosovo intact.

If it doesn't then Serbia's territorial integrity is at risk! Sure, some people are willing to sell Kosovo for an EU carrot but I hope the majority don't!

As a Serbian citizen I am entitled to express my opinion and as already mentioned, I'll be living there come August. I can assure you my opinion wont change.

Yes, Serbia can join the EU if it pleases, but it holds the key to Kosovo's membership! If it joins without Kosovo then it loses that key. There is no way the quasi Kosovo entity could join before Serbia just like Northern Cyprus with regard to Cyprus.

The question here is does Serbia want to join the EU in exchange for Kosovo?

Why hurry to join a dead horse (€U) in the first place? Wait two years and the Borg hive will be in total dissaray(partly beacause of recognizing the KLA-UCK Thug "state")...

Like Olof Palme said before he war murdered: We shall never join these kind of super-states, cooperate ok, but we shall stand free from it. The eurocrat-empire in the shadow of USA is falling and Russia is on the rise more democratic than ever, the light comes from the east.

"Serbia holds the key and if the Albanians ever dream of joining the EU, they can only do so with Kosovo as an integral part of Serbia.
(ZK UK, 6 March 2008 12:38) "

If serbs ever want to join the EU, they can only do so without Kosovo.

Btw, its easy for you to speak in the name of serbs, from your comfy seat in EU / UK.

If EU is so bad, why don't you move to Serbia?

ZK UK, how on earth does Serbia 'hold the key'?
Border-disputes are by no means a problem for EU-accession. How do you think Slovenia (problems with Croatian border) or Cyprus (what about northern cyprus?) became a member?
All Serbia can control is its own future within the EU. We're definitely not able to stop Kosovo from becoming an EU-member in the distant future.
The world doesn't revolve around Serbia, and the more we select isolation over dialogue, the less we'll be listened to.

Apart from that I think comment #2 is very true. Quite the hypocrite to live in the UK and tell us here what is 'good' for us...

It is very sad to see that majority of elected Serb politicians still use rethoric. As a result Serbia of delayed EU integration for serbia would mean less benefits for ordinary citizens. One question, if Kosovo was so important why nothing has been done over the past 6 years to re-build a relationship between Pristina and Belgrade?

ZK UK, how on earth does Serbia 'hold the key'?
Border-disputes are by no means a problem for EU-accession. How do you think Slovenia (problems with Croatian border) or Cyprus (what about northern cyprus?) became a member?
All Serbia can control is its own future within the EU. We're definitely not able to stop Kosovo from becoming an EU-member in the distant future.
The world doesn't revolve around Serbia, and the more we select isolation over dialogue, the less we'll be listened to.

Apart from that I think comment #2 is very true. Quite the hypocrite to live in the UK and tell us here what is 'good' for us...

"Serbia holds the key and if the Albanians ever dream of joining the EU, they can only do so with Kosovo as an integral part of Serbia.
(ZK UK, 6 March 2008 12:38) "

If serbs ever want to join the EU, they can only do so without Kosovo.

Btw, its easy for you to speak in the name of serbs, from your comfy seat in EU / UK.

If EU is so bad, why don't you move to Serbia?

It is very sad to see that majority of elected Serb politicians still use rethoric. As a result Serbia of delayed EU integration for serbia would mean less benefits for ordinary citizens. One question, if Kosovo was so important why nothing has been done over the past 6 years to re-build a relationship between Pristina and Belgrade?

If this goes through today, it will be a great victory for Serbia and those loyal to territorial integrity.

This will put an end to the EU/US plan as it needs Serbia within the EU to complete it.

Serbia holds the key and if the Albanians ever dream of joining the EU, they can only do so with Kosovo as an integral part of Serbia.

nikshala wrote:

If EU is so bad, why don't you move to Serbia?
--

I am moving to Belgrade in August and my opinion will not change one bit!

The stance to join only with Kosovo as an integral part will put the pressure back on those forces attempting to split Serbia. Further negotiations will be welcomed.

So why are the Albanians so eager to join the EU? So they can leave Kosovo to work in some Western country? That will be the likely outcome I think.

MLKG... Like I said, if this goes through then Serbia can only join the EU with Kosovo intact.

If it doesn't then Serbia's territorial integrity is at risk! Sure, some people are willing to sell Kosovo for an EU carrot but I hope the majority don't!

As a Serbian citizen I am entitled to express my opinion and as already mentioned, I'll be living there come August. I can assure you my opinion wont change.

Yes, Serbia can join the EU if it pleases, but it holds the key to Kosovo's membership! If it joins without Kosovo then it loses that key. There is no way the quasi Kosovo entity could join before Serbia just like Northern Cyprus with regard to Cyprus.

The question here is does Serbia want to join the EU in exchange for Kosovo?

Why hurry to join a dead horse (€U) in the first place? Wait two years and the Borg hive will be in total dissaray(partly beacause of recognizing the KLA-UCK Thug "state")...

Like Olof Palme said before he war murdered: We shall never join these kind of super-states, cooperate ok, but we shall stand free from it. The eurocrat-empire in the shadow of USA is falling and Russia is on the rise more democratic than ever, the light comes from the east.

If I could I would pull my own country - Ireland - out of the EU. We have been members since 1973.

In the beginning, the Union was about countries co-operating together economically for the benefit of all. This was and remains a good idea. But the terms of the deal have changed.

Driven forward by the large countries, the EU is now being transformed into a large superstate including political and military union. The small countries like my own are losing their distinctive character and also their influence. If the Lisbon Treaty is ratified this process will be almost complete.

The fact that only one country is having a referendum on Lisbon demonstrates how the practise of democracy within the EU has been terminally undermined. I have a copy of the Lisbon Treaty and it is impossible to understand what it means because in order to do so you would have to read all the previous treaties. People do not know what they are signing up to.

I have lived in Ireland all my life and have seen all the things that I love about this country disappear gradually. The pursuit of free-market economics by an increasingly centralised EU has virtually destroyed the respect for the citizen that used to be characteristic of Irish society. People in Ireland are now dying because our EU-friendly government are demolishing our public health service so that private hospitals, built and owned by big business, can reap the benefits and generate huge profits.

My advice to Serbia would be to forget about the EU and concentrate on building economic ties with the majority of countries in the world who are not part of this US/EU axis. It is possible to be prosperous and keep your soul.

There is a real alternative to EU membership. Go for it!

MLKG,

"…Quite the hypocrite to live in the UK and tell us here what is 'good' for us..."

Would you consider posibility that those who live and work in the EU maybe know much more about reality of it, then most of Serbs in Serbia? Knowing both worlds well, they might indeed be in a position to make good gugement of pros and cons.

Giacomo,

"… EU integration for serbia would mean less benefits for ordinary citizens…. "

As you probably know, most of these same politicians tried for quite a few years to compile with every whim which came from Washington and Brussels but it didn't bring them any good. Just sticks, carrots nowhere to be seen. They had enough of this pushing around.

Can you name a few benefits for Serb citizens so far?

"… One question, if Kosovo was so important why nothing has been done over the past 6 years to re-build a relationship between Pristina and Belgrade?…"

That is question for Albanians and their sponsors. As Americans promised independence, Albanians were not interested in anything else.