Former MEPs with Serbia’s regime and opposition behind closed doors

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The two former members of the European Parliament (EP) will hold two-day talks with both the authorities and opposition in Belgrade but insisted they are behind closed doors, and without any statements ahead or after the meetings, the Politika daily reported on Thursday.

Eduard Kukan and Knut Fleckenstein reportedly come to mediate between the regime and the opposition to avoid the boycott of the spring elections which the opposition said would organise unless its demands were met.

The two will have separate meetings with ruling and opposition parties.

“Their visit has a purpose to increase pressure on the opposition to take part in the elections,” Sanda Raskovic Ivic from the People’s Party, said.

She said they would probably try to make the situation better, to change the atmosphere in the Parliament. Raskovic Ivic added that Kukan, Fleckenstein and David McAllister, the EP Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman, were those who “settled” the situation in Macedonia and “they will push us, in the same way, to take part in the elections.”

McAllister was in Belgrade on Monday, having meetings with President Aleksandar Vucic, Minister of European Integrations Jadranka Joksimovic and the representatives from the ruling and opposition parties.

Media haven’t reported any significant improvement.