Opposition Party: Opening of Some Clusters in Negotiations with EU Could Be Dangerous for Serbia

Vladimir Gajic (BETAPHOTO/MILAN OBRADOVIC)

People's Party leader Vladimir Gajic said on Dec. 19 that opening some clusters in negotiations on membership with the EU could be risky, because it meant that Serbia would have to distance itself from Russia, from which Serbia receives natural gas and oil at a special, lower price which was the region why foreign investments were being made in Serbia.

Gajic told Kurir TV that the objective of EU reforms was for German and France as the biggest countries in the bloc to secure a method of decision-making that would prevent smaller members, like Hungary and Slovakia, from halting Brussels in making the union's most important strategic decisions.

"The intention of the EU was never to admit any country from the Western Balkans and that includes Serbia. The EU today is politically, and even economically, undergoing bankruptcy proceedings," Gajic said. He added that Serbia should "thank the EU for stopping negotiations on enlargement" because Chapter 35 stated as an official condition that Serbia enable the self declared independent Kosovo to join international organizations meaning the U.N.

He stressed that Serbia needed a sustainable agreement with the West, because it could not be at war with the West, and that it was good for Serbia "to develop, reform an apply European standards that are good for us."