Vucic: Include the Western Balkans in the EU's plans, we will be grateful

Serbian President Aleksadar Vucic, in his address at the commissioning ceremony of the Gas Interconnector between Bulgaria and Greece (IGB) in Sofia, stated that this project is also important for Serbia and asked the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, to include the countries as well. from the Western Balkans in the EU plans for energy prices.

Vucic said that Serbia has started the construction of a gas interconnector with Bulgaria on its territory and that the two countries will finish the project in one year and that the new interconnectors with Bulgaria and North Macedonia will mean a lot for Serbia and that without the EU they would never have been achieved those goals.

- I believe that we will have a difficult winter and autumn, even more difficult than President Von der Leyen said here. I had a dilemma before coming here how she would treat me, but she was very polite and kind. I feel a bit like a "black sheep" here in the company of friends and I have to thank her, although I don't want to flatter her. She helped us a lot when it comes to the construction of an interconnector between Serbia and Bulgaria and in planning the construction of an interconnector between North Macedonia and Serbia. It will mean a lot for the infrastructure of the Balkans, which we can then branch out. But without the infrastructure and support from the EU, we would never have reached these goals, said the Serbian president.

In his address, Vucic asked the president of the EC, Urusula von der Leyen, to put the countries of the Western Balkans on the common list of EU countries when it comes to energy prices.

-Dear Ursula, do not listen 100% to my friend Kyriakos Mitsotakis and do not repeat 100% the measures of the era of the fight against Covid - we are grateful for your support, but when we talk about money, we cannot absorb these energy prices and please put the Western Balkan countries on that list along with others from the EU. I know that my friend Mitsotakis will agree to put our countries from the Western Balkans on the same list as the EU countries when it comes to prices, and we will be extremely grateful to you, said Vucic in Sofia, expressing his gratitude to Azerbaijan, without whom it would not be possible to consider gas diversification.

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