Serbian Deputy Prime Minister Aleksandar Vulin and Russian President Vladimir Putin
Brussels does not see Belgrade as a true partner, Deputy Prime Minister Aleksandar Vulin has said
Serbia will explore the option of joining BRICS instead of the EU, which has made increasingly stiff demands and offered no progress toward membership in return, Deputy Prime Minister Aleksandar Vulin has said.
The country applied to join the EU in 2009 and has been a candidate for membership since 2012. During the intervening years,
Brussels has upgraded its demand that Belgrade normalize relations with Kosovo into a de-facto recognition of the breakaway province's independence,
failed to protect the rights of ethnic Serbs living in Kosovo,
and tied Serbia's accession to the bloc with severing relations with Moscow and imposing sanctions on Russia."Just tell us: 'we don't want you,'" Vulin told the
Berliner Zeitung in an interview published on Sunday. "Why do you keep setting us conditions that we cannot fulfil? We see the EU as a partner, but
we are not entirely sure that the EU sees us as a partner."
Comment: The US is not agreement capable as the US signed contracts and treaties are not worth the paper they are written on as history has shown. The US promotes the 'rules based' order whereby they can set rules on others as they wish.
The former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev was not impressed: