The government is giving up on Kosovo

"The state is in a serious and deep crisis. The public debt is growing in a way that is intimidating, the budget deficit is huge, the unemployment higher and higher, investments exist only in promises. Life is becoming unbearable for a great number of citizens. The government is rushing into the EU, giving up on Kosovo-Metohija along the road, and the Stabilization and Association Agreement will completely destroy the Serbian economy. Only elections could bring that to a halt," Kostunica said in an interview to the Belgrade-based press. He noted that elections would offer a chance for a more vocal warning that EU integration is fatal for Serbia, and reiterated that for the state the best track will be that of political neutrality- cooperation with all, the EU included, but without formal membership. Kostunica noted that the DSS requests that people vote in a referendum in 2015 whether they are in favor of EU integration or not. "That would be an opportunity to discuss in a democratic debate, which is now marginalized, even forbidden, the issue of whether it would be better for Serbia to join the EU or stay outside it," he added. "On the EU path Serbia is losing Kosovo, and tomorrow it can also lose Vojvodina. The neighboring countries that joined the EU will press more and more demands. The chain of blackmail will be endless, and Serbia will hardly be able to endure that torture," the DSS leader explained. He noted that the time is yet to come for the DSS policy, and when asked whether his party would run in the elections in a coalition with the Dveri movement, the Serbian Radical Party and other parties within the so-called 'patriotic bloc', Kostunica said that there are also political and ideological differences between them, and that neither of the parties supports the DSS's idea of political neutrality, so for the time being it is more likely that the party would stand for election on its own.