Belgrade and Moscow Agree that Relations with the EU Do Not Need to Be Advanced, Says Serbian Researcher. Is Brussels to Blame?

The European Union and Serbia are formally continuing accession negotiations, but in reality their relationship has stagnated. The current Serbian government is trying to maintain the status quo – economically benefiting from relations with the EU, but politically relying on authoritarian practices, Russia and China. The EU is partly to blame, says Miloš Petrović, a senior researcher at the Belgrade Institute of International Politics and Econom…