{"id":387508,"date":"2024-09-05T17:15:46","date_gmt":"2024-09-05T15:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2024\/09\/05\/ue-serbia-rrussia-contro-adesione\/"},"modified":"2024-09-11T18:20:30","modified_gmt":"2024-09-11T16:20:30","slug":"eu-warns-serbia-aligning-with-russia-contrary-to-stated-goal-of-membership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.eunews.it\/en\/2024\/09\/05\/eu-warns-serbia-aligning-with-russia-contrary-to-stated-goal-of-membership\/","title":{"rendered":"EU warns Serbia: &#8220;Aligning with Russia contrary to stated goal of membership&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brussels &#8211; Either Russia or the European Union. One excludes the other, and Serbia needs to clarify its intentions for its present and even more so for its future.&nbsp;<span style=\"margin: 0px;padding: 0px\">The European Commission does not like Serbian Deputy Prime Minister Aleksandar Vulin&#8217;s trip to Russia and&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.kremlin.ru\/events\/president\/news\/75021\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">his meeting with President<\/a>&nbsp;Vladimir Putin and warns that choices that are too pro-Russian could&nbsp;<strong>close the doors of the EU for Belgrade,<\/strong>&nbsp;effectively blocking the accession process.<\/span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Under the leadership of Vladimir Putin, Russia violates the United Nations statute and international law on which the European Union is founded, and <strong>aligning with Russia is not compatible<\/strong> with the principles of the EU and contrary to what EU membership requires,&#8221; makes clear <strong>Peter Stano<\/strong>, spokesman for the High Representative for Foreign and Security Policy, Josep Borrell. The institutional mission conducted by Vulin &#8220;runs counter to the stated objective of EU membership,&#8221; and from Brussels comes an explicit call to &#8220;refrain from strengthening ties with Russia.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>However, the demand is a threat. The incompatibility of Belgrade&#8217;s policies with EU values and acquis means that the EU must <strong>reconsider the accession process,<\/strong> which means threatening to <a href=\"https:\/\/staging.eunews.it\/en\/2024\/07\/09\/eu-suspension-georgia-government-funds\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"_blank noopener\">suspend it as the EU executive has begun to do with Georgia<\/a>.&nbsp;<span style=\"margin: 0px;padding: 0px\">Serbia applied for EU membership in 2009 and,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/neighbourhood-enlargement.ec.europa.eu\/enlargement-policy\/serbia_en?prefLang=it\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in March 2012, obtained candidate country status<\/a>.<\/span>&nbsp;Since then, there has been more than a decade of continuous work, complicated by the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/staging.eunews.it\/en\/2024\/06\/25\/new-borrell-kurti-vucic-trilateral-summit-in-brussels-to-revive-dialogue-between-serbia-and-kosovo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kosovo issue and the normalization of relations between the two entities<\/a> (Kosovo continues to be unrecognized as an independent and sovereign state by all 27), but still never challenged as it is today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EU executive warns Belgrade about the possibility of blocking the country&#8217;s path to the 27-member. Twelve-star prospects farther down the road, as for Georgia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":239928,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"1","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"0","show_view_counter":"0","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":"","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":"","hide":""},"jnews_override_counter":{"override_view_counter":"0","view_counter_number":"0","override_share_counter":"0","share_counter_number":"0","override_like_counter":"0","like_counter_number":"0","override_dislike_counter":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1649,25707],"tags":[25746,28925,27620,27334,25803,26071,26458],"class_list":["post-387508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-non-categorizzato","category-world-politics","tag-accession-serbia-en","tag-adesione-allue-en","tag-enlargement","tag-russia-in-2","tag-inserbia","tag-vladimir-putin-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387508"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":388357,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387508\/revisions\/388357"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}