Opposition politician’s letter to Von der Leyen: By supporting Vucic, you deal the strongest blows to the idea of a European Serbia

NEWS 26.10.202411:21 0 komentara
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Following the visit of the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, to Serbia, the leader of the Party of Freedom and Justice, Dragan Djilas, asked whether she realised what country she visited, stating that her actions and support for a man he described as "the head of an organized criminal group" represent the most devastating blows to the idea of a European Serbia and an insult to all those who believe in that idea. Pročitaj više

Here is Djilas’s open letter:

Do you feel even a little uncomfortable as you praise the government in the country that is Europe’s champion of corruption and crime? Are you ashamed when you declare Vucic’s Serbia – where children are expelled from kindergartens because their parents are in the opposition, where opposition members are beaten, their cars are set on fire, and they are fired from their jobs – as one of the most advanced countries in the EU accession process? Are you at least a little embarrassed when you speak of the rule of law in a country that, as a state project, created a marijuana factory and where the lives of the police officers who uncovered it are in danger?

When you praise Serbia’s investment rating, do you pause at all to consider that your great friend, left to you by your friend Angela Merkel, has led the country into debt slavery, raised food prices above the European average, and spends tens of billions of euros on projects without tenders, mostly awarded to Chinese companies? Did you ask your friend Aleksandar Vucic why he insults journalists, why he spied on the Russian opposition, why he has a joint committee with Russia to fight against colour revolutions, why he sends thugs against students in Novi Sad? Novi Sad, where Prime Minister Vucevic is from, with whom you refused to meet because of his meeting with the Russian minister as if you were unaware that he is merely Vucic’s henchman and that the meeting took place with Vucic’s consent.

It appears, Ms. von der Leyen, that you have forgotten the European Parliament’s resolution on electoral fraud in Serbia, which you and your EPP colleagues prevented from being implemented. You’ve forgotten that Marinika Tepic and five MPs went on a hunger strike over this fraud, you’ve ignored the ODIHR mission’s findings, and you’re unaware of the anti-European campaign that has been conducted through state media for a decade. You don’t know that Serbia has not opened any new negotiation chapters in the EU integration process for years, let alone completed any of them. Do you even know where you landed yesterday and which country you were in? With your actions and support for a man who is the head of an organized crime group, you deal the strongest blows to the idea of a European Serbia and humiliate all those who believe in that idea. In Vucic’s so-called „democratic“ Serbia, only the citizens and the opposition genuinely fight for European values, norms and standards, often risking their own safety.

Clearly, none of the facts I mentioned matter to you. Lithium is more important than all of that. I have two pieces of information for you. First, lithium will not be mined in Serbia. And second, we want Serbia in Europe, and we have sacrificed greatly for our freedom—not for you or for European bureaucrats, but for a better life for our citizens. We will achieve this, though obviously not with you or with a corrupt government tied to organised crime that sells out Serbia to the highest bidder. We will win our freedom ourselves and owe nothing to anyone„.

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