The opposition told "Vreme" that the SNS is on the verge of being kicked out of the European family of conservative parties, while the authorities say it's fake news.
The impression that the regime Aleksandar Vučić here and there he receives mild criticism from the European Union, but in principle he enjoys support, he could completely change if European People's Party (ENP) actually excluded the Serbian Progressive Party from membership.
The announcement that the status is "verified" has been there for a month.
In the new issue, which is on newsstands from this Thursday (October 9), "Vreme" talks about it with Serbian opposition members who are engaged in gaining international support.
Social democrats, liberals and greens in the European Parliament are putting pressure on the ENP, the conservative and largest family of parties in Europe, to change its relationship with the SNS, Natan Albahari, international secretary of the Movement of Free Citizens, a party that is a member of the Association of European Liberals and Democrats, tells us.
"And there are positive developments here. For the first time, the ENP is considering its position towards the SNS. This was most influenced by the position of the progressives towards the war in Ukraine. The ENP very explicitly supports Ukraine and sanctions against Russia. When they see that their member, even an affiliated one, does not have such attitudes and values, it presents a huge problem to other members," reports Albahari.
"Added to that was Serbia's democratic regression, violence against citizens, the fact that Vučić calls MEPs 'scum'... We are on the way to SNS ending up outside the ENP, but it must be said that it is not a short and simple process. In the conversation with European conservatives, we see a willingness to significantly revise the attitude towards Vučić's party," he adds.
Vice President of the Party of Freedom and Justice Borko Stefanović says that Vučić "reached the wall". "If nothing else, everyone is uncomfortable to have anything to do with an isolated, unstable autocrat, who no longer has anywhere to take loans from and add additional debt to this country, in order to preserve power. He has also become an unwanted, destructive relative from the edge of Europe in the ENP."
October 22nd is mentioned as a new decision day, when SNS representatives go to a kind of "hearing" at the headquarters of the European party to which they belong, in Brussels.
The President of the Assembly and the international secretary of the SNS, Ana Brnabić, said recently that the news that the SNS is on the verge of being kicked out is "fake" and that those who insist on it do not have Serbia's interests in mind.
And the progressive Minister for European Integration, Nemanja Starović, said that the stories about the expulsion are homemade and that the SNS participates in all the activities of the ENP.
By the way, it was the first man of the ENP, the Bavarian conservative Manfred Weber, who first introduced the "reexamination" of membership.
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