Commissioner Olivér Várhelyi, the EU’s Enlargement most sensible coverage government professional is to move underneath an EU inside investigation for allegedly favouring Serbia all through the bloc’s growth negotiations.
Dutch S&D MEP Thijs Reuten, who helped draft the parliament’s file, criticised the commissioner.
“We have seen this commissioner actually not responding actually to secessionist initiatives, from Mr Dodik for example, in Bosnia. Not responding adequately to the actions of Mr Vucic, destabilizing the situation in Kosovo and also in Bosnia. So, that worries us. That’s why we want to investigate, whether he is fulfilling his job in line with the code of conduct, because the code of conduct says that commissioner should represent the interests of the Union as a whole and not the agenda of certain member states,” he stated.
Despite officially making use of for EU club, Serbia has time and again refused to align its overseas coverage with that of the bloc. In December 2021, the EU Commission entered into club talks with Belgrade, regardless of Serbia’s unresolved tensions with its former territory of Kosovo.
Varhelyi stated then that “Serbia is taking another very important step forward in joining the European Union.”
The EU, particularly France and Germany, were actively, but unsuccessfully, pressuring the Serbian nationalist president Vucic to rally his nation to sign up for EU and NATO sanctions towards Russia. He branded them “a brutal” interference into Serbia’s inside affairs.
Várhelyi, a Hungarian citizen and best friend of the rustic’s nationalist top minister Viktor Orban, is suspected of siding with Serbia in each its row with Kosovo and in its reluctance to sanction Russia with a view to align himself with Orban’s pursuits.
The EU lawmakers also are occupied with Varhelyi’s perspective towards separatist-minded Bosnian Serb chief, Milorad Dodik.
He has time and again fanned nationalist flames and has evoked reuniting his Bosnian-Serb mini-state, Republika Srpska with Serbia. EU lawmakers have known as for sanctions towards Dodik.
On Friday EU and US envoys will trip to Belgrade and Pristina to check out to discover a option to the reignited tensions between Serbs and Kosovars.
