Hungary will not have anyone blocking Serbia's EU accession

BELGRADE - Hungary will not have anyone blocking Serbia's EU accession - a country's accomplishments in the integration process should be the only benchmark, Hungarian PM Viktor Orban said Monday.

That is what must be decisive, rather than integration itself or whether someone likes someone else or not, Orban said after a meeting with Serbian PM Aleksandar Vucic, adding that he had offered assurances to his counterpart that this was Hungary's position and that it would act accordingly.

Orban noted he himself had experienced a time of high support for Hungary's EU accession, which he said had become absent later.

He said he was glad the two governments would hold a joint session this autumn - not in Belgrade or Vojvodina, but in another part of Serbia.

We want to bring our economies closer together and enable investors to get to know each other, he concluded....