BELGRADE, April 29 (Hina) - The Serbian National Bank (NBS) Governor, Mladjan Dinkic, has said that time will soon show that Serbia must request a separate process of association and stabilisation with the European Union because
Serbia and Montenegro will not be able to integrate their customs systems soon.
BELGRADE, April 29 (Hina) - The Serbian National Bank (NBS)
Governor, Mladjan Dinkic, has said that time will soon show that
Serbia must request a separate process of association and
stabilisation with the European Union because Serbia and
Montenegro will not be able to integrate their customs systems
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"In my opinion, the Belgrade agreement and the Constitutional
Charter have legalised two separate markets, but this will also be
the reason for the future peaceful disintegration of the union of
Serbia and Montenegro," Djinkic said in an interview for the latest
issue of the Ekonomija magazine.
He said it was unrealistic to expect that the two republics, which
are not of the same size, would show interest in the same level of
customs protection of the domestic industry.
He stressed that the Stabilisation and Association Agreement with
the EU would not be signed until Serbia and Montenegro agreed on
customs rates and established joint customs and other bodies,
"regardless of what EU High Representative Javier Solana promises
our politicians".
"Because of this mission impossible, Serbia has been making no
progress for over a year. We will have to ask ourselves very soon if
we want to enter Europe with Croatia, Romania and Bulgaria, or if we
will have to wait for Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Macedonia,
which would be a national catastrophe," Dinkic said and assessed
that the latter three countries would not join the EU before 2020.
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