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Hahn’s Support to Serbian Authorities Causes Harsh Reactions from the Opposition

Politiko 1 Prill 2019, 19:00

A two-day visit of the EU Commissioner for Enlargement Johannes Hahn, during which he met with both, government and the opposition representatives, and he also managed to become the Ambassador of Youth Sports Games of Serbia, ended on Friday with a little bit restrained, but still clear support to what Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic was doing.

The situation in the media, especially after TV N1 requested international protection on Thursday, Hahn did not want to comment on Thursday and he said on Friday that he still did not get the letter in question.

“I must receive this letter first and it will certainly be included in the next report on progress. As President Vucic has said, he is also not pleased with the situation in the media and I believe that it is important to have self-criticism and try to improve the situation”, Hahn said at the joint press conference, held on Friday.

During the report about this visit TV N1 reiterated that Hahn said in 2015, when he received the first objections to lack of democracy of Vucic’s regime, that besides the statements, another necessary thing would be – evidence.

Four years later, after everything that happened, Hahn concluded that he was confident in progress Serbian authorities should enable.

“I take also note that Serbian Government is making serious efforts to improve the situation in the crucial rule of law areas, such as the finalization of the media strategy. Also important to improve parliamentary cooperation, the EU offered facilitation. Confident about improvement”, Hahn wrote the same evening on his Twitter account and caused an avalanche of negative reactions from Serbian public, especially the part of it that was not supportive of Vucic’s regime.

Milos Popovic, a statistician, wrote on the occasion: “Contrary to EU Commissioner Hahn’s praise of Serbia’s ‘serious efforts to improve rule of law’, the actual rule of law index for Serbia has been declining since 2012. It was one of the worst in 2017. In 2018, it might be the WORST”.

Popovic backed his response with a spreadsheet that showed Serbia was in a constant drop, as opposed to the other states of the region, and that only worse ranked country was – North Macedonia.

Vladimir Todoric (Democratic Party – DS): “No one from the opposition should meet with this man anymore. How insulting this is for the intelligence of the people”.

Biljana Lukic (Alliance for Serbia – SzS): “Hahn reminds of that character from the movie who knows that his neighbor is keeping a kidnapped child in the basement, but he plays a fool and visits him regularly because the neighbor is making a good barbeque and always has beers”.

Sasa Radulovic (MP from It is Enough Movement – DJB): “This is how much interest EU has in rule of law and freedom of media. It is time to ask ourselves: ‘And what if EU wants Serbia exactly as it is and a President exactly like Vucic? What then? Germany is running the Balkans and it is interested just in the Balkans like this: a source of a cheap workforce with obedient autocrats in power. Globalism does not need democracy. Only obedience”, Radulovic wrote in two connected twits.

Petrit Selimi, former Kosovo Foreign Minister: “If there is anything that is currently more anti-European in Serbia, it’s the current cabal of Serbian government-control tabloids. Racist, warmongering, western-bashing, brain-washing junk that has saturated and killed normal media landscape with our neighbors”.