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The European Commission "recognized Serbia's clear progress in all key areas", read Ana Brnabić's assessment of the EC's Annual Report. Either the Prime Minister read some other report, or she did not understand it, or she does not care what those Europeans write, because she, with her he is leading the country in another direction
The strategic commitment of the Serbian Progressive Party led by Aleksandar Vučić is to distance Serbia from the European Union. It should be clearly said once, and Vučić would be the happiest if he could allow himself to do so, but he is afraid that he will lose part of the votes of those who do not really want to go back to the nineties. That's why Ana Brnabić and her boss continue to tell fairy tales about EU membership as Serbia's strategic commitment, while messing around with Vojislav Šešelj and his radicals and doing everything the opposite of what the path to European integration would entail.
And it is not only Kosovo that is the problem. The Kosovo knot is an unsolvable national pain and it does not depend only on the good political will of the progressive leaders, just as it depends only on their will to reach all other so-called European standards, that is, the standards of parliamentary democracies and free societies, which should pave the way to Brussels, and on whose collapse their power is actually based.
When the EC report says that the National Assembly does not work properly, that it does not control the executive power, that media freedom is worrisome, that those in power are falsely suing critical media in order to intimidate them, that journalists are exposed to threats and hate speech, that high government officials plan hinder freedom of expression, that the political and economic influence on the media is worrying, that the rulers do not pay attention to the anti-Western narrative of the media they control, that Vučić's MPs attack and slander members of civil society, that war criminals are glorified, that the judiciary is under constant political pressure, that corruption is widespread and that there is no political will to fight it..., for Ana Brnbić, this is "recognized progress of Serbia in all key areas areas".
Of course, he doesn't write everything literally in those words, but that's exactly what it means in the rough Brussels, clerical language in which the Annual Report of the EC was written, and which the Prime Minister would have to understand.
When you add to that the privileged businessman, architect and fighter for Serbian freedom in Kosovo Milan Radoičić who freely walks around Serbia, the existence of the recently replaced Aleksandar Vulin, the inevitability of Milorad Dodik (all three are under American sanctions), the non-introduction of sanctions against Russia, the preference for business and credit arrangements with China or the Emirates because they do not care about the transparency that the EU insists on, then it is quite clear that Serbia's strategic determination is to move away from the European Union.
And that is logical, because for Vučić, Dacić and the entire company that has been in power for 11 and a half years, any substantial approach to the Union would mean cutting the branch that carries their power.
Thus, after 23 years, on December 17, the citizens of Serbia will once again face the choice of whether they want Serbia to move in the direction of the EU, or to remain in the increasingly tight embrace of China, Russia, the Emirates, Azerbaijan and other beautiful countries with political systems compatible with progressive aspirations. .
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