Tomislav Sokol: There will be no peace in Southeast Europe until Serbia undergoes a real catharsis

AUTHOR:M.J. GDNUS

At the plenary session of the European Parliament held in Strasbourg, the deputies discussed the situation in Serbia. Speaking at the plenary session, the Croatian representative in the European Parliament, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Sc. Tomislav Sokol, said that attempts to justify the tragicomic failure to organize a meeting between Vučić and President Trump represent the latest peak of shameless manipulation of the public and that there will be no peace in Southeast Europe until Serbia undergoes a real catharsis and confronts its own failures and illusions.

'Serbia increasingly looks like the black hole of Southeast Europe. We have known for a long time that it is an authoritarian state with complete state control over all segments of society, especially the media, which the government uses in any way it sees fit. The latest attempts to justify the tragicomic failure to organize a meeting with President Trump represent the latest peak of shameless manipulation of the public, the likes of which have not been seen in Europe for a long time. And whether Vučić will be able to recover by the time of the parade in Moscow is still uncertain.

However, what we are talking about is very serious. The idea of ​​the Serbian world is based on aggressive hegemonic policies that led, among other things, to the Homeland War in Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina in the 1990s. Let's take the example of Montenegro, where Greater Serbian elements practically control the government and are on their way to completely marginalizing the nominally strongest party, the Europe Now Movement! One of the key factors in this is the Serbian Orthodox Church, whose patriarch clearly showed in Moscow that he sees Russia as his key ally, not the West.

Serbian hegemony is a much deeper problem than Vučić himself, and until Serbia undergoes a real catharsis and faces its own failures and illusions, there will unfortunately be no peace in Southeast Europe. Such a Serbia has no place in the European Union,' said Sokol.