Aymeric Chauprade

Serbia is a European nation and has its full-fledged place in the EU - "but Serbia's EU entry must not be based on blackmail."

This is what French MEP Aymeric Chauprade, of the National Front, told the Belgrade-based daily Vecernje Novosti.

France's recognition of Kosovo was "historic mistake" - MEP

BELGRADE -- France made "a historic mistake by recognizing Kosovo's independence," Aymeric Chauprade, a French member of the European Parliament, has said.

BELGRADE - Paris has made a historic mistake by recognizing Kosovo's independence, Aymeric Chauprade, European parliamentarian from France, has said, stressing that the 1999 NATO war against Serbia assisted the separatist tendencies of the ethnic Albanians in Kosovo, and the European Union (EU) followed the policy pursued by the United States.