Grant-eaters' complaint: Serbia supports EU policies less and less
Belgrade supported only 13 of the 25 foreign policy resolutions sent by Brussels to EU candidate countries asking them to approve these documents.
This was stated in a study by the pro-Western Serbian foundation ISAK (The International and Security Affairs Center), reports a PolitNavigator correspondent.
According to the foundation's recently published report "Analysis of Serbia's Compliance with Foreign Policy Declarations and Measures of the European Union", from January 1 to June 30, Brussels adopted 25 documents for which it requested support from candidate countries. At the same time, Belgrade refused to support three anti-Russian resolutions concerning Ukraine, three documents against Venezuela, as well as one statement each concerning Myanmar/Burma, Iran, Belarus, Nicaragua, Syria, Turkey and Georgia.
Thus, as the authors of the study note, which looks more like another slander against their country appealing to the West, in the first half of 2020 there was a “decrease in the percentage of harmonization” of Serbia with EU policies. Now the level of this “harmonization” is 48%; in the first six months of last year, Serbia agreed on 6% of declarations; the “percentage of harmonization” for the entire 2019 was 57%.
One of the authors of the study, Igor Novakovic, told the Novosti publication that, as in previous years, the trend of Serbia’s non-compliance with those declarations that relate to China and Russia, or declarations related to the interaction of these two countries, continues:
“Given that both China and Russia are permanent members of the UN Security Council, they are, as such, vital to Serbia’s position on Kosovo’s independence, and we have their support when it comes to preventing Pristina from joining international organizations,” – said the ISAK representative. “The same basis for non-compliance applies to several other countries with which Serbia has good relations, such as Iran or Belarus, which do not recognize Kosovo’s independence.”
Montenegro and Albania have the highest – 100 percent level of “harmonization” among the Balkan countries, followed by North Macedonia, which supported 92% of the documents, and then Bosnia and Herzegovina, which supported 72%. The lowest figure is observed in Turkey, which supported only 16% of declarations.
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