Kostunica: EU trap is test for government
The government's success depends on whether it will be able to extricate the country from the trap of European integration used as a tool for the disintegration and impoverishment of Serbia, said leader of the Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS) Vojislav Kostunica.
(KosovoCompromiseStuff) Wednesday, November 07, 2012
"The EU has abused the Serbian people's trust and is directly involved in creation of an independent Kosovo. In the first one hundred days, I have not seen determination and willingness to stop this agony," Kostunica added in an interview for Vecernje Novosti.
Still, he said the government had shown some positive sides - from fighting crime and corruption to stopping "the detrimental policy that the EU has no alternative."
"The first impression is that in these one hundred days, not enough has been done to break away from the former government's policy. The EU has continued blackmailing Serbia with a gradual recognition of Kosovo. The price Serbia needs to pay to join the EU is renouncing Kosovo and everybody understands this now," said the DSS leader.
"We must put a full stop on European integration," he said.
Asked whether he considered the new government an overall improvement on the previous one, Kostunica said the government led by the Democratic Party "was so disastrous that it is beyond comparison."
Still, he said the government had shown some positive sides - from fighting crime and corruption to stopping "the detrimental policy that the EU has no alternative."
"The first impression is that in these one hundred days, not enough has been done to break away from the former government's policy. The EU has continued blackmailing Serbia with a gradual recognition of Kosovo. The price Serbia needs to pay to join the EU is renouncing Kosovo and everybody understands this now," said the DSS leader.
"We must put a full stop on European integration," he said.
Asked whether he considered the new government an overall improvement on the previous one, Kostunica said the government led by the Democratic Party "was so disastrous that it is beyond comparison."
