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Report: Serbian political parties do not want EU membership
Jun 27, 2010, 10:45 GMT
Belgrade - Serbia's political parties do not want European Union membership and are actively hindering it, the country's biggest newspaper, Blic, reported Sunday.
'They (the parties) are the biggest obstacle in the path to EU membership,' the paper wrote. Politicians had introduced just one of the 15 laws required by the EU for membership, the paper said.
According to Blic, Belgrade's politicians do not want EU membership because they would then have to reveal the murky origins of their funding, and work to rid the country of its entrenched system of corruption.
Minister for Public Administration Milan Markovic also criticized his country's parties, saying that reform ought to be their number one priority.
The parties were too powerful and controlled too big areas in politics and the economy, without being subject to any controls themselves, he told Novosti newspaper.
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