Antonio TAJANI, EP President visits Serbia and meets with Maja GOJKOVIC, Speaker of the Serbian National Assembly. He gives a press point, and meets with Ana BRNABIC, Serbian Prime Minister.

TAJANI, Antonio (EPP, IT)

EU - Serbia (T)

official visit

Belgrade

GOJKOVIC, Maja (RS)

Official visit by Antonio TAJANI, EP President to Serbia: meeting with Maja GOJKOVIC, Speaker of the Serbian National Assembly, extracts from the press point

Exterior view of House of National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, Trg Nikole Pasica. (4 shots)

Antonio TAJANI, EP President to Serbia meeting with Maja GOJKOVIC, Speaker of the Serbian National Assembly arrival, handhake, views during the meeting (7 shots)

Antonio TAJANI, EP President Signing in the Golden Book of the Serbian Parliament (2 shots)

SOUNDBITE (Serbian), Maja GOJKOVIC, During the meeting next week, the EU enlargement strategy will be presented, which is partly about the membership of the Republic of Serbia and the countries from the Western Balkans.

SOUNDBITE (Serbian), Maja GOJKOVIC, The part of the agreement dedicated to Serbia is about the implementation of what has been agreed upon in Brussels. I think that Serbia and Belgrade equally expect the political powers from Pristina, which part of this agreement is about, and which is also a priority for us, to negotiate the formation of the country and the Serbian community. I also wish to commit to supporting the EU and the European integration.

SOUNDBITE (Italian), Antonio TAJANI, The President has underlined the economical matter, I believe that Europe must keep giving great attention to Serbia, which have an economical growth level of 2% and the European investment can contribute to strength this growth and reduce the unemployment especially for youth by reinforcing the link between Serbia and EU.

SOUNDBITE (Italian), Antonio TAJANI, It is important that Serbia will make step forward to join the EU not only for the benefit of the country but for the benefit of all of us. Those first two meetings confirmed that my mission here in Belgrade started very well; as we say in Italian the good day is seeing from the morning and the morning has been very good. Thank you President.