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I find it troubling that a dictatorship like this is expected to be allowed into the European Union by 2025. There ought to be stricter requirements for human r
by amarant 5y ago
I find it troubling that a dictatorship like this is expected to be allowed into the European Union by 2025. There ought to be stricter requirements for human rights infractions to join...
- knuthsat 5y agoSerbia is far from a dictatorship. Otherwise these propositions wouldn't be met with internal outrage that influences the progression of the law.
- kodisha 5y agoThere are different kinds of dictatorships. Serbia is externally sponsored one. Angela Merkel visited just recently, and EU, on paper gives support. In exchange Vucic is doing whatever is needed, and they look the other way while he does his moves. OCCASIONALLY he oversteps his limitations, and his sponsors give him slap on the wrist.
- DeWilde 5y agoIt is not a dictatorship, at worst it is authoritarian, and at best a it is broken democracy. Some parts of the government are better, some are worse.
- salex89 5y agoIt's degrading on a daily basis, literally.
- pjmlp 5y agoThe biggest problem with dictatorships, it that most people only notice it is actually one when it is too late. Even back home in Portugal, I fear that when my generation is gone, the one that still felt how it used to be part of one is gone, newer ones will eventually repeat the errors of the past. 1923 goverment was seen as a liberation one that actually fixed things, but that was in the early years.
- NiceWayToDoIT 5y agoSerbia in EU will not happen in 2025, and probably not even in 2050. Corruption rate is high, and chapters requirement to get in EU are far from completion, some things are even more complex as status of Kosovo that simply wont be solved by 2025. So, Chinese and Russian influence will grown in that part of the world, which is kind of sad as the largest companies opening now are heavy polluters. although to be fair, some western companies as Rio Tinto are the same so ... Poverty and more misery by heavy industry go hand by hand ...
- amarant 5y agoI should've included this link in the original comment, but better late than never I suppose! Serbia is actually expected to join in 2025, far fetched as that might seem to you and me https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accession_of_Serbia_to_the_European_Union https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accession_of_Serbia_to_the_E...
- NiceWayToDoIT 5y ago"Chapters Closed - 5.9% complete"
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- seniorivn 5y agoeu is not far from the same atrocities to human rights in terms of surveillance
- locallost 5y agoWhat's troubling there is that the EU has so many partners that are dictators. Angela Merkel visited that country only days ago and as most European countries was quite cosy in her relationship with the current Serbia government.
- Bayart 5y agoThey'll never be in the EU with the state Serbia is currently in. Kosovo is a hard stop anyway, the EU doesn't allow (anymore) countries with land disputes to enter. It might end up like Turkey, a country that's a perpetual prospective member.
- swayson 5y agoAgree, although I doubt EU actually cares about human rights. Power, greed, control and money is what drives the modern day globalized economy.
- vasac 5y agoNo one expects that - at best EU wants to limit Russian and Chinese influence so they pour some money and pay lip service about enlargement. On the other site our government doesn't want to enter EU either - it likes to get some money and to kick can down the road as long as possible while flirting with EU membership, Russia and China. So everybody is fine with status quo.
- shp0ngle 5y agoThis will not happen until Kosovo is somehow magically solved. But hey even Northern Macedonia and Greece found peace so who knows