"Serbia is allowed to choose" VIDEO

The EU Commission presented its proposal for renewing the accession negotiation process, but, if adopted, it would only be applicable to the countries who are yet to open accession negotiations, with the countries already negotiating being able to choose if they want to join in.
"It is going to be their choice, and I already see arguments in favour", Vrhelyi said.
According to Vucic, Serbia can choose whether to continue using the already negotiated framework or the new methodology, and that his personal sympathies are on the side of the new methodology.
"My personal sympathy, as president, is to take on new methodologies, and I am grateful to the EU Member States who have wished this," said Vucic, after meeting with Commissioner for Neighborhood Policy and Enlargement Olivr Vrhelyi.
"When you have a good pass time, the right pass time that means a lot to the people involved in the reforms, I am sure that we will do our best to do our job as quickly as possible. I want to reaffirm our commitment to Serbia's European path, our determination to be part of the EU, but also part of the debate on how to best show people the EU benefits, so that they could be able to touch what the EU is, and not just have a vague idea about it", he pointed out.
In support of the new methodology, Vucic stated that, although he went to Brussels almost every time to open the chapter, he would not be able to list the ones we had opened and closed, and that this was now more transparent within the new methodology, which envisages six clusters.
He said that when the clusters are closed, which is not an easy work, because the new methodology is tight and restrictive, it gains access to EU funds.
"If you take competition and growth as a cluster, we...