Maybe the club isn’t worth joining. From Ian Proud at strategic-culture.su:
The war in Ukraine has prompted Eurocrats in Brussels to force a binary choice on Serbia – ‘you’re either with us or with Russia’.
As Central European countries like Slovakia grow restive about the anti-democratic creep of Brussels, the European Commission has increased its pressure on aspiring EU Members like Serbia to cut engagement with Russia and impose sanctions instead. This augurs poorly for the European project.
Slovakian Prime Minister, Robert Fico and Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić plan to attend the May 9 Victory Day parade in Moscow, to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II. The big difference is that while Slovakia is an EU Member State, Serbia only hopes to be, one day.
Kaja Kallas, the EU High Representative for Foreign Policy and Security intoned after an EU Foreign Ministers’ meeting on 14 April that ‘any participation in the 9 May parades or celebrations in Moscow will not be taken lightly on the European side, considering that Russia is really waging a full-scale war in Europe.’
The foreign Minister of Latvia, Baiba Braže, weighed in, pointing to ‘discussion on the values and alignment of CFSP, including sanctions, including very clear guidance from EU member states for the candidates not to participate in the 9th May parade in Moscow and not to do those trips as it would not be in line with the EU values.”
Jonatan Vseliov, the Secretary General of Estonia’s Foreign Ministry was more blunt saying, ‘we need to ensure that they [Serbia] understand that certain decisions come at a cost. The consequence is them not joining the European Union.’
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