On June 15th, EU ministers will meet in Luxembourg and officially decide whether or not Serbia has fulfilled enough obligations so that the visa regime for its citizens can be abolished. It’s sort of a D-day for no-go people here in Serbia, but after so many promises and dates came and went, not a whole lot of people actually believe that this date will bring some positive news.
But, if I read the signs correctly, this decision of Adriana Lima to take Serbian citizenship is an encouraging event. The girl wants to travel without visas, people! And there’s poor Marko Jaric, still thinking that she is with him for his wealth… and look at Ivica Dacic, interior minister, I don’t think he’s been this happy ever since Milosevic died and left him in charge:
Not to leave the comments of this blog entirely to the drooling Adriana Lima fans, here’s a question for you political minded people: Do you think citizens of Serbia will be allowed to travel freely through Europe any time soon?
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She can already travel without a visa. Brazil is already on the Schengen white List.
I think you know what I’m going to say.
Say it anyway, we have plenty of new subscribers/readers lately, not everyone knows about regular commentators’ standpoints
Thanks, Viktor, you’re an ever-generous and tolerant host. So, in the knowledge that Ida’s floodgates are just waiting to be opened, I’ll have to say it again, that as long as Serbians continue to vote in governments that choose not to fulfil their obligations under international law – under the International Court of Justice judgment that helped them escape from a lot worse -, Serbia will just have to carry on waiting for a visa regime. Once the much promised arrival of a certain Ratko Mladic in The Hague materialises, Messrs Tadic, Dacic, etc. will become fit people for the EU to conclude agreements with. We’ll swallow a lot of our own hypocrisy, but we’re still not quite ready to choke completely.
Ok, but how about this: the Hague chief prosecutor says were doing fine when it comes to cooperation and as far as the Schengen is concerned, it looks like it’s a done deal, at least the vice pres of the European Commission says so.
‘i don’t think [jaric’s] been this happy since milosevic died and left him in charge’
i laughed out loud on that one. thanks for that.
in answer to your question, i hope so. it creates a strange dynamic, being in a relationship with someone who technically has less freedoms than you do. ‘you’ meaning ‘me’. i can roam the globe freely even when my gov’t (and a crap load of its citizens throughout time) makes decisions that end in innumerable lives lost. it’s more than a double standard, it’s unjust.
I looked but I couldn’t t quite see where Serge Brammertz said thank you for all your cooperation, I don’t think you need bother too much about that elusive Mr Mladic. Certainly you’re right that there are a lot of Europeans who’d be only too delighted to see an end to all this nasty business of truth and justice and international law, but fortunately the Dutch have enough shame stains on their fingers to make them a little hesitant about going along with the feelgoods.