Vucevic: EU notes Serbia's progress in many areas, especially in economy

BELGRADE - Serbian PM Milos Vucevic said on Wednesday the European Commission's 2024 report on Serbia especially noted the country's economic progress.

"The EU notes Serbia's progress in numerous areas, above all, in the economy," Vucevic told a press conference after receiving the report from the head of the EU Delegation to Serbia, Emanuele Giaufret.

He said Giaufret had provided clarification and that the government was yet to analyse the report.

"Ambassador Giaufret has just presented to us the annual report on Serbia for 2024, which was, as the ambassador said, finished a few hours before this meeting, so we also received verbal clarification or notes regarding key issues contained in the report. The government will now begin a detailed analysis of the whole report and we will definitely also inform the Serbian public of this in more detail," he said.

He noted that the report was important for Serbia as it represented an essential road map for the country and its EU integration and was an analysis of Serbia's annual progress and an assessment of the achieved level of preparedness for EU membership.

He said that, besides economic progress, he was pleased with progress on the green agenda, ecology and climate change.

"That is noted, too, but much more work is still ahead of us there," Vucevic added.

"We also have progress on justice, freedoms, security, statistics, taxation, the trans-European network, but we certainly must do more. Of course, discussions about the most sensitive set of issues - alignment with the EU foreign and security policy, are ahead," he said.

Giaufret said progressive alignment with the EU foreign and security policy was a part of the framework of EU accession talks.