Pressure to impose sanctions on Russia by EU states should not push Serbia to drop its EU aspirations, Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić said on Sunday.
Sixteen of the EU’s 27 members directly or indirectly spoke of the necessity for Serbia to join sanctions against Russia at a summit of EU and Western Balkan leaders said Vucic.
Vučić said “we should not go to the other extreme” due to the pressure that he had faced at the recent summit to impose sanctions against Russia.
“I see that there is a great hysteria against the EU in the country, but we shouldn’t think that we can have better partners than those in the EU or that we could have another political path. Do not forget that the money we have, we have thanks to a huge number of investments, most of which from the EU, and the support that we have from the Union,” Vučić said.
“We have 300,000 people working in foreign companies, 500,000 indirectly. Most of those, at least two-thirds, are companies from the EU. Although they don’t want to hear how important it is to us to decide for ourselves about sanctions, or how important the Chinese and Russians are to us, we are continuing our European path,” Vučić said.
