Director of the German Foundation Conrad Adenauer in Belgrade Henri Bone stated he sees the visit of the German MPs to Serbia, headed by Andreas Schokenhoff, as an encouragement and support to reforms of the Serbian government and society in the context of European integrations.
Schokenhoff, the deputy head of the German Councilor Angela Merkel’s CDU/CSU caucus in German Bundestag, arrives in company of foreign policy advisors to Belgrade with the desire to get acquainted with the political situation in Serbia led by the new government, and with the situation following floods which stroke Serbia in May, said Bone to Tanjug. He reminded that Schokenhoff earlier presented several conditions which are considered by Germany, as he said, very important to be fulfilled by Serbia.
According to his expectations Schokenhoff will ‘repeat those conditions and he might examine with the Serbian partners to which extent has Serbia progressed, what has remained to be done and what was achieved so far’.
He is also visiting in order to ‘encourage reforms which have been promised to Berlin by the Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic, and to show to Germany that it still supports efforts and reforms of the Serbian government and society in the context of European integrations’, said Bone and added that Prime Minister Vucic and the government need as wide support as possible ‘be it from the inside or the outside’.
Main topics at the meetings of German MPs with Serbian officials will be, as he said, European integrations of Serbia, reforms, particularly in the economic sector and continuation of the dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina.
Important topic of this visit will be the continuation of dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina said Bone and assessed that following the parliamentary elections in Serbia, local and parliamentary elections in Pristina, and elections in the EU, forming of the European Commission in Brussels is following, after what ‘the time will come for giving a new impetus to that process’.
“I think that there is no time to be wasted and that after the summer break new incentives will follow aimed at settling remaining open issues from the Brussels agreement, and all other open issues between two sides,” said Bone.
