Brnabic: EU membership Serbia's strategic objective

BELGRADE- Serbian Parliament Speaker Ana Brnabic said on Wednesday EU membership was Serbia's strategic objective and that there was a strategic interest in the entire Western Balkans becoming a part of the EU as that was equally good for Serbia, the region as well as the EU itself.

Speaking at the opening of the Euronews Adria Summit at the Palace of Serbia, Brnabic said the conference came at the right time - when Serbia was fighting to open Cluster 3 in its EU accession talks - and noted that the EU narrative was one of the main objections faced by Serbia.

"A conference like this one serves the purpose of changing that narrative. Serbia's strategic objective is to become a full EU member state, and repeating this has become something like a political platitude that means nothing, but we rarely ask ourselves why we want to be a part of the EU and whether we want the entire Western Balkans to be a part of the EU," Brnabic said.

She said that, in spite of all objections that could be made about the EU, it was undeniably the biggest and the most successful peace project in the history of humanity.

"The Western Balkans must be a part of such a peace project so that we can turn to the future," Brnabic said.

The Euronews Adria Summit aims to open a platform for dialogue on key social, political and economic topics in the Western Balkans.