"Frustrated Euro Trough" by President Tadic
“Citizens need to say openly: it is possible that we will not only not receive the status of a candidate by the end of the year, but we will not receive any date to start negotiations for admission to the European Union at all” - this is a statement made by President Tadić to TANYUG and immediately replicated by the leading World news agencies have summed up the eloquent summary of the official and domestic policies of Belgrade over the past three and a half years, since the very moment of the self-proclamation of Kosovo’s independence. After all, everything that President Boris Tadic did and Mirko Cvetkovic’s government obedient to him was explained precisely by the desire to enlist the support of Brussels. Obtaining the status of a candidate country was declared a panacea for all socio-economic and political problems and even a means to breathe new life into the process of Kosovo settlement.
However - it did not work out. The fact that between the lines the high-ranking representatives of the European Union, led by the Commissioner for Expansion Stefan Fule, made it clear in recent months, was declared openly by federal Chancellor Angela Merkel to the discouraged Tadic. She presented to her Serbian interlocutors a new list of conditions, which included not only the requirement to “significantly improve” relations with Pristina, but also an order to renounce Serbian institutions operating in northern Kosovo. These institutions, according to the Western scenario of the architects of the “New World Order”, are to be liquidated in accordance with the “Strategy for Northern Kosovo” published at the beginning of 2010 of the year.
The fact that the latter requirement is tantamount to national treason seems even President Tadic has understood. Spending a German guest, he declared to his people and the whole world that “Serbia will not leave its people in Kosovo.” He called the “completely unnatural” requirement that “the Republic of Serbia take part in suppressing national institutions, such as, for example, hospitals and schools,” and stressed that Serbia “cannot accept such a demand”. And although he immediately declared that his country “would not give up European integration” and that if now negotiations on Serbia’s accession to the EU are impossible, “they can become possible tomorrow” - the problem of choosing between the EU and Kosovo sounded quite clearly in his speech : “If the Serbian or European public asks Serbia to choose one of them, my answer will be the following: Serbia will not give up any of its legitimate interests.” Given the illusory hopes of revising the attitude of the EU leadership towards the very same self-proclaimed self-proclaimed independence of Kosovo, this means that the EU’s negotiations with Serbia, as they were seen by the Belgrade authorities, cannot begin.
Another round of talks between the delegations of Belgrade and Pristina under the auspices of the European Union is scheduled for this week in Brussels. In the light of recent statements by President Tadic, their character is of particular interest. The leading Kosovo Albanian-language newspaper, Koha Ditore, very fairly noted that the dialogue "is entering the most critical phase." The publication quotes the words of an unnamed high-ranking international official, who declared the danger that "the whole process will crash."
Indeed, if the negotiation process is not in a position to bring closer, or even theoretically, to ensure the entry of Serbia into the EU, the question arises about its meaning. In the current situation, the Serbian delegation must either tighten its position in the negotiations to the utmost - or finally discredit itself in the eyes of its own voters with empty discussions with a taste of national betrayal. For the West - and Frau Merkel made it clear - negotiations are now needed as a means of obtaining the consent of Belgrade to suppress the Kosovo Serbs. The fact that in the near future we should expect a "new nomination to the north" of special units of the Kosovo police, said the newspaper "Zeri" with reference to the head of the Kosovo government, Hashim Thaci. According to the available information, this operation can follow immediately after the completion of the next round of negotiations.
For what, under the present conditions, such negotiations of Serbia are needed - as we see, even President Tadic cannot answer this question.
Be that as it may, the Serbian authorities in recent days, paradoxically, have gained some freedom for maneuvers. An extraordinary meeting in Banja Luka of Serbian Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremic and President of the Bosnian Republic of Serbian Milorad Dodik can serve as an indicator of this. Jeremic asked his interlocutor to “use his influence in Bosnia and Herzegovina” in order to provide support for Belgrade’s position on Kosovo - including at the level of the UN Security Council. Speaking to journalists after the talks, he dropped the phrase that the preconditions voiced by Angela Merkel in Belgrade would have “strategic implications for the region”. Behind such a formulation, the idea of dividing Kosovo and receiving territorial compensation by Serbia, including in the Republika Srpska, may well be hidden.
However, in order to more actively defend the interests of "its people in Kosovo", Serbia, first of all, needs to get out of the state of the Euro-Drug.
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