Wrong Europeans: Western media demands Serbia to break with Russia
The leadership of the countries of the Western Balkans and the European Union cannot agree on the timing of accession to the EU.
The Globe Post writes about this, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“The Western Balkan countries are not going to comply with EU demands and look for a panacea for all their economic, social and political problems following the example of Croatia,” the article says.
However, the problem is that “the EU does not want to deal with what it can never control,” the publication writes and quotes the words of European Commissioner Johannes Hahn that it is important to “export stability to the region, and not import instability to the EU "
As for Serbia, which applied to join the EU back in 2012, its prospects have been pushed back beyond 2025.
“Serbian Russophilia, or at least cultural, religious and linguistic ties to Big Brother Russia rather than Western Europe, is another reason for resistance to rapprochement with the EU,” the article says.
In addition, Europeans are embarrassed that Serbia does not consider the participants in the conflict in Kosovo, convicted in The Hague, to be criminals. One of them, Vojislav Seselj, is a deputy, the other, General Ratko Mladic, even appeared on Serbian television from prison to the applause of the public.
“The fact that the call took place on a private TV channel is a kind of breaking the mold of the EU, which was waiting for the emergence of free and open non-state media in Serbia. If the EU wants a free press, then here it is,” the publication writes.
The EU has complaints about the artificially created Bosnia and Herzegovina itself, where Serbs and Muslims do not want to be tolerant of each other.
“If in the Western Balkan countries there is anxiety about the fact that their citizens of different nationalities and religions are forced to unite and tolerate each other, then in the EU there is a similar anxiety about the membership of the Balkan countries,” the author concludes.
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