Serbia is 'fully committed' to EU accession path, says Costa in Belgrade

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Serbia is 'fully committed' to EU accession path, says Costa in Belgrade  The European Council president met Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić in Belgrade on Tuesday, emphasising the need for Serbia to align more closely with the EU.  READ MORE : http://www.euronews.com/2025/05/13/serbia-is-fully-committed-to-eu-accession-path-says-costa-in-belgrade  Subscribe to our channel. Euronews is available on Dailymotion in 12 languages

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00:00European Council President António Kosta said Serbia is fully committed to its EU accession path,

00:08despite the President Aleksandr Vucic's trip to Moscow last week.

00:13Kosta met with Vucic in Belgrade and criticized the visit to Russia's Victory Day events,

00:19mentioning the need to reaffirm alignment with European foreign and security policy.

00:24A lot of people asked me to don't come, but I decided to come.

00:30Because if we have a problem with Serbia, if we have a problem with the President Vucic,

00:35the solution is not to come, is not to talk with the President Vucic,

00:40it's to come, to have a talk, to explain the different point of views,

00:49and now we can reaffirm, and it's very important to hear from him,

00:54publicly reaffirm that he's fully committed with the European Union and with the European and with the session path.

01:06Vucic has been under significant pressure in Serbia following six months of student-led anti-corruption protests.

01:12He's been criticized for maintaining close relations with Russia and China,

01:17while formally saying he wants Serbia to join the EU.

01:21Some of the students are in Brussels to voice their concerns to European Parliament lawmakers,

01:26as well as the enlargement commissioner, Marta Kos, and youth commissioner, Glenn Mikalev.

01:30We talked about the situation that has happened in Serbia for six months,

01:35about how institutions don't work on their job, and how the media is struggling with this situation.

01:41They supported us, against us, and that's it.

01:47There's been some interesting topics that we talked about, but we haven't talked about it.

01:51While the president of the European Council, Antonio Costa, is in Belgrade,

01:56discussing the challenges on Serbia's path to the EU with the Serbia's president,

02:02the real challenge for Aleksandar Vucic is here, in Brussels.

02:05Students who run from Serbia to Brussels to draw attention to issues of corruption and the rule of law

02:11are meeting with members of the European Parliament, as well as with two commissioners.

02:16Earlier, enlargement commissioner Marta Kos stated that the demands of the Serbian students

02:23are essentially the same as what the European Union is asking of Serbia.

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