“EU should not accept new members”
Source: Tanjug
BERLIN -- German parliament Speaker Norbert Lammert has said that the EU is not capable of expanding in the immediate future.
He told German newspaper Welt am Sonntag that “in light of the experiences we had with Bulgaria and Romania, Croatia is clearly not yet ready for membership."
Lammert pointed out that the EU still had a lot of work to do on consolidation and that the enlargement should not be a priority.
"I don't think the European Union is capable of expanding in the immediate future," Lammert, a member of the center-right Christian Democrats, was quoted as saying.
He pointed out that the countries of the former Yugoslavia could become EU members but that they needed to meet accession conditions on their own.
However, many potential Balkan member nations have not come close to meeting European Union membership criteria, Lammert concluded.
nedelja 14.10.2012 | 15:29 | Source: Beta | Comments: (54) | Send comment
MOSCOW -- UN General Assembly President Vuk Jeremić has stated that the issue of Kosovo is Serbia's internal issue.
nedelja 14.10.2012 | 14:01 | Source: Tanjug | Comments: (41) | Send comment
LOZNICA -- Serbian Prime Minister Ivica Dačić has stated that Serbia deserves to be a part of the EU thanks to its anti-fascism fight.
nedelja 14.10.2012 | 13:11 | Source: Tanjug | Comments: (0) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- The Serbian government will adopt a budget bill for 2013 by October 25 at the latest, Tanjug has learnt.
nedelja 14.10.2012 | 12:46 | Source: Blic, Tanjug | Comments: (19) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- President Tomislav Nikolić made a “cardinal mistake“ by saying he expects the EU to change the controversial formulation about “Kosovo’s territorial integrity”.
nedelja 14.10.2012 | 11:42 | Source: Beta | Comments: (31) | Send comment
NOVI SAD -- European Parliament (EP) Special Rapporteur for the Western Balkans Hannes Swoboda has said that Serbia will have to recognize Kosovo before joining the EU.
nedelja 14.10.2012 | 11:14 | Source: Blic, Tanjug | Comments: (9) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- It is not possible to change the formulation “Kosovo’s territorial integrity” in the Enlargement Strategy and Main Challenges 2012-2013, says Suzana Grubješić.
nedelja 14.10.2012 | 10:49 | Source: Tanjug | Comments: (2) | Send comment
NOVI SAD -- Serbian PM Ivica Dačić and Vojvodina Executive Council President Bojan Pajtić have agreed that the Constitution and Vojvodina’s Statute have to be respected.
subota 13.10.2012 | 15:38 | Source: Tanjug | Comments: (2) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- Serbian Prime Minister Ivica Dačić and Vojvodina Executive Council President Bojan Pajtić met on Saturday afternoon in Belgrade.
subota 13.10.2012 | 15:10 | Source: Tanjug | Comments: (5) | Send comment
BRUSSELS -- Several EU member states have announced that they will launch a procedure in late October that will allow them to quickly suspend Serbia’s visa-free regime.
subota 13.10.2012 | 14:02 | Source: Beta | Comments: (2) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- Serbian Culture and Information Minister Bratislav Petković has stated that the state could keep a part of its share in media.
subota 13.10.2012 | 13:13 | Source: Tanjug | Comments: (6) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- Serbia’s Prime Minister Ivica Dačić stated on Saturday that the government still had not decided who would head a negotiating team in talks with Priština.
subota 13.10.2012 | 12:14 | Source: Danas, Tanjug | Comments: (0) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- Serbian government’s EU Integration Office Director Milan Pajević has announced that the Office will propose an Action plan to the government in ten days.
subota 13.10.2012 | 11:43 | Source: Večernje novosti | Comments: (40) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- Serbian President Tomislav Nikolić told daily Večernje novosti that the EU had no alternative for Serbia.
subota 13.10.2012 | 10:52 | Source: Blic | Comments: (1) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- Prime Minister Ivica Dačić will be a lead Serbian negotiator in talks on a final solution for Kosovo, daily Blic has learnt.
petak 12.10.2012 | 20:56 | Source: Beta | Comments: (3) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- Oliver Dulić says the draft indictment against him, revealed on Friday, was "a compromise between the prosecution and the executive branch of the government".
petak 12.10.2012 | 19:43 | Source: Tanjug | Comments: (11) | Send comment
BUDAPEST -- Serbian Prime Minister Ivica Dačić has expressed his hope that the EU would survive until the time that Serbia was ready to join the organization.
petak 12.10.2012 | 19:25 | Source: Tanjug | Comments: (4) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- The ruling Serb Progressives (SNS) are concerned that the EC used the term "territorial integrity" in relation to Kosovo, in its latest progress report.
petak 12.10.2012 | 18:50 | Source: B92, Tanjug, RFE | Comments: (5) | Send comment
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA -- Krstimir Pantić says Atifete Jahjaga "never traveled to northern Kosovo for talks with representatives of Serbian institutions there".
petak 12.10.2012 | 17:14 | Source: Tanjug | Comments: (13) | Send comment
MUNICH -- Bavaria's Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann demanded on Friday of the EU and the EC to urgently reintroduce visas for the citizens of Serbia and Macedonia.
petak 12.10.2012 | 15:45 | Source: B92, Beta | Comments: (5) | Send comment
PRIŠTINA -- After visiting Belgrade on Thursday, EU Enlargement Commissioner Stefan Fule visited Priština on Friday and met with Kosovo officials.
petak 12.10.2012 | 15:44 | Source: Tanjug | Comments: (1) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- The Democratic Party (DS) has formed a legal team for protection of its members across Serbia, the opposition party announced on Friday.
petak 12.10.2012 | 14:36 | Source: Beta | Comments: (14) | Send comment
PRIŠTINA -- The District Prosecution in Priština has determined that Kosovo Privatization Agency Director Dino Asanaj committed suicide by stabbing himself 11 times.
petak 12.10.2012 | 11:54 | Source: Kurir | Comments: (3) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- Serbia’s First Deputy Prime Minister Aleksandar Vučić says he is planning on taking combat against corruption to the very end.
petak 12.10.2012 | 10:54 | Source: Tanjug | Comments: (19) | Send comment
BRUSSELS -- European Parliament (EP) Rapporteur Jelko Kacin has said that the change of borders and partition of Kosovo are “out of the question”.
petak 12.10.2012 | 09:22 | Source: RTS, Tanjug | Comments: (5) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- Serbian president’s foreign policy advisor Marko Đurić says a state platform for the solving of the Kosovo issue will be completed in the next several weeks.
četvrtak 11.10.2012 | 20:44 | Source: B92, Tanjug | Comments: (7) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- Aleksandar Vučić says the government will next week make a decision that will make it impossible for persons in Kosovo to receive multiple wages.
četvrtak 11.10.2012 | 20:33 | Source: Tanjug | Comments: (3) | Send comment
NOVI SAD, BELGRADE -- Aleksandar Vučić says Stefan Fule assured him that the mention of "Kosovo's territorial integrity," in EU's 2012 Enlargement Strategy "has been misinterpreted".
četvrtak 11.10.2012 | 18:07 | Source: Tanjug | Comments: (15) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- President Tomislav Nikolić told EU Commissioner Stefan Fule that the EU should change the part of an EC report referencing "Kosovo's territorial integrity".
četvrtak 11.10.2012 | 17:17 | Source: B92, Beta, Tanjug | Comments: (4) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- EU Enlargement Commissioner Stefan Fule on Thursday in Belgrade attended a session of the Serbian Parliamentary Committee on EU Integrations.
četvrtak 11.10.2012 | 17:12 | Source: Beta | Comments: (5) | Send comment
BRUSSELS -- NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen has stated that KFOR could get reinforcement in northern Kosovo.
četvrtak 11.10.2012 | 15:18 | Source: Beta | Comments: (12) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS) leader Vojislav Koštunica has rejected claims of EU officials that “Kosovo's territorial integrity“ was mentioned back in 2005.
četvrtak 11.10.2012 | 13:47 | Source: Tanjug | Comments: (1) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- The policy the Council of Europe (CoE) pursues concerning Kosovo has not changed, as we have remained status-neutral, respecting Resolution 1244.
četvrtak 11.10.2012 | 12:24 | Source: NIN | Comments: (4) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- Serbia’s foreign policy goals have not changed and its goal is the EU membership because it belongs there, Serbian Foreign Minister Ivan Mrkić has stated.
četvrtak 11.10.2012 | 11:20 | Source: Beta, Tanjug | Comments: (15) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- EU Enlargement Commissioner Stefan Fule has confirmed that there are no new conditions for Serbia’s EU accession.
četvrtak 11.10.2012 | 09:34 | Source: Večernje novosti | Comments: (3) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- The Serbian government will appoint PM Ivica Dačić as a head of the negotiating team in talks with Priština by the end of the week, Večernje novosti writes.
četvrtak 11.10.2012 | 09:18 | Source: B92, RTS | Comments: (19) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- Mentioning of territorial integrity has nothing to do with Kosovo’s status, EU Enlargement Commissioner Stefan Fule told Radio Television of Serbia (RTS).
sreda 10.10.2012 | 20:34 | Source: Tanjug | Comments: (5) | Send comment
BRNJAK, BRUSSELS -- Members of international missions deployed at the administrative crossing of Brnjak have erected concrete blocks over three meters tall "for security reasons".
sreda 10.10.2012 | 20:12 | Source: Tanjug | Comments: (0) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- Parliamentary Committee on EU Integration chair Milica Delević says the content of the European Commission's (EC) report on reforms in Serbia is "no surprise".
sreda 10.10.2012 | 19:44 | Source: Tanjug | Comments: (2) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- PM and Interior Minister Ivica Dačić says the special working group in charge of fight against organized crime and corruption "will not go on strike".
sreda 10.10.2012 | 19:01 | Source: B92, Tanjug | Comments: (1) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- EU's representative in Serbia says the European Commission's new report showed the country achieved progress in areas where reform processes had been analyzed.
sreda 10.10.2012 | 17:20 | Source: B92, Beta, Tanjug | Comments: (1) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- First Deputy Prime Minister Aleksandar Vučič has met and given his support to the Serbian police (MUP) officers working on corruption cases.
sreda 10.10.2012 | 16:55 | Source: B92, Beta, Tanjug | Comments: (19) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- Ivica Dačić says the European Commission (EC) demand for Serbia to respect "the territorial integrity of Kosovo" could bring an end to the Kosovo dialogue.
sreda 10.10.2012 | 16:44 | Source: B92 | Comments: (7) | Send comment
BRUSSELS, BELGRADE -- Controversial formulation “Kosovo’s territorial integrity” can be found in a document dubbed Enlargement Strategy and Main Challenges 2012-2013.
sreda 10.10.2012 | 15:59 | Source: B92, Beta, Tanjug | Comments: (29) | Send comment
BRUSSELS -- The European Commission (EC) did not recommend that Serbia be given a date for the beginning of the EU accession talks in a report that was presented today.
sreda 10.10.2012 | 10:48 | Source: Beta, RTS | Comments: (35) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- German Ambassador to Serbia Heinz Wilhelm says that Germany is not asking Serbia to recognize Kosovo’s independence but to “normalize relations with Priština”.
sreda 10.10.2012 | 10:46 | Source: Tanjug | Comments: (1) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- Serbian Deputy PM for European Integration Suzana Grubješić says Serbia is likely to get a date for the start of EU talks in the spring or summer of 2013.
sreda 10.10.2012 | 09:57 | Source: Tanjug | Comments: (2) | Send comment
BRUSSELS, BELGRADE -- EU Enlargement Commissioner Stefan Fule will arrive in Belgrade Wednesday to clarify details of the European Commission's annual report to Serbian officials.
sreda 10.10.2012 | 09:41 | Source: B92 | Comments: (2) | Send comment
BELGRADE, BRUSSELS -- Belgrade and Priština expert teams will meet in Brussels on Wednesday, Belgrade team chief Dejan Pavićević told Radio B92.
utorak 9.10.2012 | 18:40 | Source: B92 | Comments: (8) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- Former Minister Oliver Dulić was interrogated for four hours on Tuesday by the Organized Crime Prosecutor, and then released.
utorak 9.10.2012 | 14:30 | Source: Tanjug | Comments: (8) | Send comment
ROME -- President Tomislav Nikolić met in Rome with his Italian counterpart Giorgio Napolitano to say that the EU should not put obstacles and new terms before Serbia.
utorak 9.10.2012 | 13:08 | Source: Anatolia | Comments: (56) | Send comment
ROME -- Serbian President Tomislav Nikolić has told an Italian daily that genocide did not take place in Srebrenica, Turkish news agency Anatolia is reporting.
utorak 9.10.2012 | 10:47 | Source: Tanjug | Comments: (0) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- PM Ivica Dačić has said that Serbia managed to reduce the number of false asylum-seekers by a series of preventive and restrictive measures.
utorak 9.10.2012 | 09:38 | Source: B92, Danas, Press, Blic | Comments: (13) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- Serbian First Deputy PM Aleksandar Vučić has told a Belgrade-based tabloid that he wishes an investigation to be carried out against a member of the cabinet.
ponedeljak 8.10.2012 | 17:17 | Source: B92, Beta, Tanjug | Comments: (3) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- The Serbian parliament met on Monday in Belgrade and decided to lift Oliver Dulić's immunity from prosecution, granted to him as an MP.
ponedeljak 8.10.2012 | 16:17 | Source: Tanjug | Comments: (6) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- Belgrade won't reveal any details of its platform for political talks with Priština "as long as the other side was silent about whether it wanted the talks".
ponedeljak 8.10.2012 | 15:13 | Source: Beta | Comments: (4) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- Ivica Dačić says he is "not shying away from his responsibility" when it comes to continued Kosovo dialogue, but that it was important to determine its goal.
ponedeljak 8.10.2012 | 14:58 | Source: Tanjug | Comments: (4) | Send comment
BELGRADE --
The opposition Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS) believes that Belgrade has to find a new framework for the dialogue with Priština.
ponedeljak 8.10.2012 | 12:57 | Source: B92 | Comments: (5) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- Zorana Mihajlović says "billions went through the energy sector without anything to show for it", and that she "wants to know where that money disappeared".
ponedeljak 8.10.2012 | 12:25 | Source: B92, Beta | Comments: (9) | Send comment
PRIŠTINA -- A Priština government official has dubbed as "wrong and unrealistic" a statement made by an adviser to Kosovo's president regarding the Serbs in the north.
ponedeljak 8.10.2012 | 11:09 | Source: B92, Tanjug | Comments: (4) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- The main topics of the talks between Serbian officials and Hague Chief Prosecutor Serge Brammertz will be the network of helpers of the Hague fugitives.
ponedeljak 8.10.2012 | 09:57 | Source: B92, Beta | Comments: (15) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- Serbian President Tomislav Nikolić told B92 TV late on Sunday that he would suggest PM Ivica Dačić to head Belgrade's team in negotiations with Priština.
