Serbian ministers visit Brussels

Mladjan Dinkic has asked for support from EU leaders for Serbia's accelerated integration into the EU, and Bozidar Djelic is also in Brussels. The two Serbian ministers are visiting Brussels while EU Enlargement Commissioner Stefan Fuele will travel to Belgrade tomorrow. Serbian ministers visit Brussels The lively relations between Belgrade and Brussels came after Serbia and the EU agreed on a resolution on Kosovo in the EU. It seems that this accelerated the process of sending the request for the candidature of Serbia to the European Commission for consideration. That should happen in October, and Economy Minister and Deputy PM Mladjan Dinkic who is taking part in a People's Parties Congress on behalf of his G17 Plus party, has asked for support of the EU leaders for Serbia's accelerated integration into the EU. The summit is the largest European political group made up of the center-right parties that include presidents and prime ministers of 15 EU member states. Another deputy PM, Bozidar Djelic, is also in Brussels on a working visit, where he will meet Fuele to discuss the steps so far and future plans of Serbia on the road toward the EU. Djelic told B92 that EU integrations were not a carrot received in exchange for the harmonization of the Kosovo resolution. Meanwhile Brussels-based European Economic Institute's Dragomir Jankovic told B92 that the Brussel's decision about forwarding the candidature was political, that intensive trips of Serbian officials to the EU seat had no particular influence, and were designed for domestic consumption. "As far as the EU decisions are concerned, I believe that the softening, or the harmonizin of the resolution (on Kosovo) has some significance for Serbia's faster road toward the EU, but not particularly big. What is quite certain is that the Serbian politicians' diplomatic activity will not contribute to that faster road," he said. Serbia submitted the candidateure last year and Belgium which presides over the EU said it would forward the issue to the EC in late October. Jankovic says the speed of Serbia's road toward the EU depends primarily on how ready Serbia is to fulfill the criteria set before it by Brussels. So far the main obstable to a faster road toward the Union was the arrest and extradition of Ratko Mladic, which Holland insists on.

Serbian ministers visit Brussels

The lively relations between Belgrade and Brussels came after Serbia and the EU agreed on a resolution on Kosovo in the EU. It seems that this accelerated the process of sending the request for the candidature of Serbia to the European Commission for consideration.

That should happen in October, and Economy Minister and Deputy PM Mlađan Dinkić who is taking part in a People's Parties Congress on behalf of his G17 Plus party, has asked for support of the EU leaders for Serbia's accelerated integration into the EU.

The summit is the largest European political group made up of the center-right parties that include presidents and prime ministers of 15 EU member states.

Another deputy PM, Božidar Đelić, is also in Brussels on a working visit, where he will meet Fuele to discuss the steps so far and future plans of Serbia on the road toward the EU.

Đelić told B92 that EU integrations were not a carrot received in exchange for the harmonization of the Kosovo resolution.

Meanwhile Brussels-based European Economic Institute's Dragomir Janković told B92 that the Brussel's decision about forwarding the candidature was political, that intensive trips of Serbian officials to the EU seat had no particular influence, and were designed for domestic consumption.

"As far as the EU decisions are concerned, I believe that the softening, or the harmonizin of the resolution (on Kosovo) has some significance for Serbia's faster road toward the EU, but not particularly big. What is quite certain is that the Serbian politicians' diplomatic activity will not contribute to that faster road," he said.

Serbia submitted the candidateure last year and Belgium which presides over the EU said it would forward the issue to the EC in late October.

Janković says the speed of Serbia's road toward the EU depends primarily on how ready Serbia is to fulfill the criteria set before it by Brussels.

So far the main obstable to a faster road toward the Union was the arrest and extradition of Ratko Mladić, which Holland insists on.