Vučić called Serbia's path to the EU a rational and pragmatic choice

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic. File photoBELGRADE, May 19.Serbia's path to the EU is a rational and pragmatic choice, trade with the European Union accounts for 60% of Serbia's total foreign trade turnover, President Aleksandar Vucic said on Thursday during a visit to Belgrade by European Council President Charles Michel. Michel is in Serbia on a working visit, in the afternoon he visited the Science and Technology Park with the head of state, Prime Minister Ana Brnabic and members of the government, where they were present at the signing of an agreement on grants from the EU and the World Bank of 84.5 million euros for the development of research projects of Serbian companies. Then Vucic and the head of the European Council held a closed-door meeting at the General Secretariat (Administration) of the Serbian President.The EU expects Serbia to support sanctions against Russia»Our goal is full EU membership. I want to tell the citizens of Serbia that they know that this is not only an emotional issue, but also a matter of reason and we have talked about values ​​a million times, … probably ashamed to say about rational and pragmatic things, but I am not ashamed, because by doing so I speak about how significant cooperation with the EU is. 37 billion euros, the EU participates with more than 60%,” Vučić said. He specified that already in the first 4 months of 2022, the trade turnover between Serbia and the EU increased by 33% compared to the same period last year and reached 9.1 billion euros , and in the next three years official Belgrade expects over 50 billion euros of trade turnover with the EU. =»338″ data-source-sid=»ap_photo» class=»lazyload» width=»1920″ h eight=»1080″ decoding=»async» sizes=»(min-width: 600px) 600px, 100vw» src=»https://cdnn21.img.ria.ru/images/07e6/03/18/1779856038_0:173 :1992:1294_1920x0_80_0_0_ec3ef6d40625dec22352ede1b889a038.jpg» srcset=» data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22%20width=%221920%height=%22 221080%22%3E%3C/svg%3E100w ://cdnn21.img.ria.ru/images/07e6/03/18/1779856038_0:173:1992:1294_1280x0_80_0_0_319514e911b9521b68479c8ad204fc9c.jpg 1280w, https://cdnn21.img.ria.ru/images/07/images/07/images/07/images/Vucic recalled that in 1999 the West did not talk about the integrity of Serbia