The current crisis provides an opportunity to speed up the process of European integration in the Western Balkans, Hungary’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said at a press conference in Budapest with the new Serbian Minister for European Integration, Tanja Miscevic.
The Hungarian Minister stressed that Serbia’s accession as the largest state in the region would be crucial. Therefore the EU should open all thirteen accession chapters that have not yet been opened. He added that Serbia’s integration would not only be in Hungary’s national security and economic interest, but also in the European interest. The Minister continued by saying that a strong and stable Serbia is in everyone’s best interest and that the EU should do everything in its power to help Serbia become a member.
Péter Szijjártó believes that the accession process is taking too long and that the European Union is doing everything it can to slow it down. Szijjártó believes that those slow to enlarge the EU are weakening it.
