Mihajlovic: Serbia doesn’t need lectures from MEPs

NEWS 22.09.202021:43
Ministarstvo građevinarstva, saobraćaja i infrastrukture

A senior member of the Serbian ruling party said that she expects European Parliament members to cooperate with the country’s institutions to bring it closer to the European Union instead of creating a bad image of the Union among the Serbian public.

Reacting to a statement by Tanja Fajon MEP that a government needs to formed as soon as possible, Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) Presidency member Zorana Mihajlovic said the authorities don’t need to be lectured. “If the citizens of Serbia elected their representatives, the people who won the most votes form a government and that is done by respecting the laws of the country and deadlines, so why the lectures about what should be done by the people who were given a mandate by the citizens of Serbia,” she said in a written statement.  

According to Mihajlovic, who heads the Ministry of Construction, Traffic and Infrastructure and is a deputy prime minister, the government never stopped its activities in regard to European integration as Serbia’s strategic goal. “I believe that Fajon, as an MEP and if she took a truly unbiased view of the situation in Serbia would have reason for optimism and patience while waiting for a new government which will, as its predecessor, work on links between Serbia and the region and Europe and work to bring Serbia closer to the European Union,” Mihajlovic said in the statement.