Brnabic: We expect stronger, more vocal Czech support for Serbia's EU integration

PRAGUE- Speaking to reporters after a meeting with Czech counterpart Tomio Okamura in Prague, Serbian Parliament Speaker Ana Brnabic said on Friday Belgrade expected stronger and more vocal Czech support for Serbia and its EU integration.

Brnabic also said the future of EU enlargement had been one of the main topics at the GLOBSEC 2026 forum in Prague.

She said she was pleased to have had an opportunity to meet with Okamura again less than a month after their last meeting, and noted that the Czech parliament speaker was a great friend of Serbia.

"It is hardly likely that we have many such friends in the world," Brnabic said, adding that Okamura had spoken again about his and the Czech government's "commitment to Serbia and support for Serbia's European integration."

She said she had asked for "more vocal" Czech support for European integration, especially as "the times are coming when decisions on many things will be made."

"We agreed to cooperate even more closely, to communicate even more regularly and more frequently, and we expect stronger, more vocal Czech support for Serbia and our European integration," Brnabic said.

Brnabic: Belgrade has always stood ready for discussions, Kurti wants to expel Serbs

PRAGUE - Serbian Parliament Speaker Ana Brnabic said on Friday Belgrade had always stood ready for discussions and noted that the goal of Pristina's PM Albin Kurti was to expel the Serbs from Kosovo-Metohija and create impossible living conditions for them in the province.

Asked by reporters about her meeting with the EU special envoy for the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue Peter Sorensen in Prague, where she is attending the GLOBSEC 2026 forum, and whether the EU representative had commented on recent arrests of Serbian education workers in Kosovo-Metohija, Brnabic responded that she had said Belgrade had always stood ready for discussions for the sake of peace and stability.

"What Sorensen wanted to discuss with me was my past experience as PM and then also as parliament speaker, and what it (the dialogue with Pristina) used to look like. I told him quite openly Belgrade has always stood ready for discussions for the sake of peace and stability, and that... ...it has always been one of the few actors that have respected international law and the UN Charter in spite of everything. We see Kosovo-Metohija as our autonomous province, but we want to have discussions to preserve peace and stability and to also ensure stability and security to Serbs in Kosovo-Motohija," Brnabic said.

"The problem is that there is no other party that Serbia can talk to," she said, adding that, following Kurti's rise to power, the situation in Kosovo-Metohija had become worse than ever before.

"He simply does not want dialogue, he is not a politician who is pragmatic in any way, he is a man of ideology and his ultimate goal is to expel not only Serbs but all other non-Albanians from the territory of Kosovo-Metohija," Brnabic said.