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Jeremic: Serbia will not have support Croatia had on its EU path

04.09.2011 u 22:33

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Serbian Interior Minister Vuk Jeremic said on Sunday there were some countries in the European Union not interested in EU enlargement to include Western Balkan countries once Croatia joined the bloc and that in that context Serbia could not count on the support similar to that of Germany to Croatia.

In a statement carried by the Serbian news agency Tanjug, Jeremic said that formally everybody supported the Thessaloniki Agenda, under which the future of the Western Balkans is within the European Union, but in reality Serbia could not count on any of the EU member states "as Croatia could count on Germany with which it shares historical ties."

Serbia has outstanding issues from the 1990s with its traditional allies, which it is trying to resolve in a way that it did not have to give up its national interests.

Jeremic said Serbia had traditionally friendly relations with France adding however, that the two countries' relations "are drastically hampered by issues from the end of the last century. He said that Sweden and Slovenia supported Serbia's EU path.