Brussels, 29/10/2013 (Agence Europe) - On 28 October, Serbia's Prime Minister Ivica Dacic called on the EU member states to stop changing their demands on Serbia as regards its accession negotiations. “You never know where the finishing line is”, he complained in an interview with French news agency AFP. “We are not asking for preferential treatment. The only thing that we ask is not to introduce new criteria to be added to the criteria and benchmarks that have already been set”, he said. “The biggest part of our negotiations will not concern a domestic issue but Kosovo”, he added. During a conference in London, Dacic again said he hoped that there will be no new conditions set before the European Council in December and the beginning of the accession negotiations. He said that Serbia is determined to achieve everything that has been agreed as part of the dialogue with Kosovo.
Dacic stated that the emphasis is not on when Serbia joins the EU but, on the contrary, when the EU will let Serbia join, referring to the European rules that his country must adopt.
In his interview with AFP, Dacic also committed to fighting corruption “quickly and forcefully” and he announced the introduction of new legislation to fight against corruption and to simplify the administrative formalities that discourage foreign companies. During a conference, he also announced an in-depth reform of the Serbian capital market. (CG/transl.fl)