Belgrade-based daily Blic writes today, in an article ”EU asks Merkel to accept a deal between Belgrade and Pristina”, that European Parliament rapporteur for Serbia David McAllister has asked the German chancellor to accept a solution to the Kosovo problem that Serbia proposes.
The daily Blic is citing a source from diplomatic circles in Berlin. According to the daily, McAllister, recently met with Angela Merkel and expressed his views on this sensitive issue.
“He said that an agreement between the two sides should be supported, that is, the proposal that Serbia is ready to accept. Without giving it a thought, the chancellor refused,” the unnamed source said.
Although Merkel would be expected to, as someone who has good relations with Serbia and President Aleksandar Vucic, be the first to support delineation or an agreement between the two sides, that has not happened, the daily wrote.
“The chancellor has no problems with your country and its leadership, but she is aware that a change or softening of (her) position would lead her to an unenviable position in Germany,” the source said.
The failure of the referendum in FYROM has shaken Merkel, it is stated, and she also fears the events in the Republika Srpska and the election for all levels of government in Bosnia and Herzegovina, held on Sunday.
“There are many problems internally in Germany, and events in your region can only make things harder for the chancellor. If she would accept the proposal, with which Serbia would come out, in the perspective and in the near future it would mean new country in the Union, then it meets with the revolt of the Germans who are dominantly against enlargement, because they feel that they should be asked more, and that enlargement will not be in their best interest as the most powerful ones,” Blic quoted its source as saying.
