European Union identified the key factors hindering Serbia's accession to the EU.
This was reported by URA-Inform with reference to Eurointegration.
The main condition remains the normalization of relations with Kosovo, said EU Foreign Minister Kaja Kallas after talks with Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic and Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti.
As part of the new stage of dialogue between the parties, Kallas held separate meetings with Vucic and Kurti. According to the Kosovo Prime Minister, the head of European diplomacy focused more on listening to the positions of the parties.
“The only way to EU membership is the normalization of relations between Serbia and Kosovo,” Kallas wrote.
However, the Kosovo issue is not the only obstacle to Serbia's European integration. The EU points to its close ties with Russia, its deviation from the EU's foreign policy course, its refusal to impose sanctions against Moscow, as well as a number of domestic problems: weak fight against corruption, insufficient democratization and the weakness of the rule of law.
The contradictions around Kosovo remain the main stumbling block. Serbia lost control over the region after a NATO military operation in 1999 and still does not recognize the independence declared by Kosovo in 2008.
Serbia, which applied for EU membership in 2009 and received candidate status in 2012, has failed to agree on opening a new negotiating cluster for the third time due to the above reasons.
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