"Czechs could follow UK out, EU no longer Balkans' dream"

The Czech Republic could "follow Britain out of the EU," Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka has said, Britain's Telegraph paper is reporting on its website.

Izvor: telegraph.co.uk

Wednesday, 24.02.2016.

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"Czechs could follow UK out, EU no longer Balkans' dream"

"If Britain leaves the EU, we can expect debates about leaving the EU in a few years too. The impact may be really huge," Sobotka said, adding that "a Czexit could trigger an economic and security downturn and a return to the Russian sphere of influence," and would be "an absolute negation of the developments after 1989."

According to the paper, due to the many crises "2016 will prove to be the high-water mark of the European project, in which it becomes plain that the vision of a fully federalized EU state will never be reached."

The article also quotes a statement made by Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic earlier this week in London during an EBRD conference about EU membership no longer being "the big dream it was in the past" for the Balkans.

"The EU that all of us are aspiring to, it has lost its magic power. Yes we all want to join, but it is no longer the big dream it was in the past. When you see that in Britain at least 50 percent of the people say they want to leave that has an effect on the public," Vucic said.

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