00:00European Council President António Kosta said Serbia is fully committed to its EU accession path,
00:08despite the President Aleksandr Vucic's trip to Moscow last week.
00:13Kosta met with Vucic in Belgrade and criticized the visit to Russia's Victory Day events,
00:19mentioning the need to reaffirm alignment with European foreign and security policy.
00:24A lot of people asked me to don't come, but I decided to come.
00:30Because if we have a problem with Serbia, if we have a problem with the President Vucic,
00:35the solution is not to come, is not to talk with the President Vucic,
00:40it's to come, to have a talk, to explain the different point of views,
00:49and now we can reaffirm, and it's very important to hear from him,
00:54publicly reaffirm that he's fully committed with the European Union and with the European and with the session path.
01:06Vucic has been under significant pressure in Serbia following six months of student-led anti-corruption protests.
01:12He's been criticized for maintaining close relations with Russia and China,
01:17while formally saying he wants Serbia to join the EU.
01:21Some of the students are in Brussels to voice their concerns to European Parliament lawmakers,
01:26as well as the enlargement commissioner, Marta Kos, and youth commissioner, Glenn Mikalev.
01:30We talked about the situation that has happened in Serbia for six months,
01:35about how institutions don't work on their job, and how the media is struggling with this situation.
01:41They supported us, against us, and that's it.
01:47There's been some interesting topics that we talked about, but we haven't talked about it.
01:51While the president of the European Council, Antonio Costa, is in Belgrade,
01:56discussing the challenges on Serbia's path to the EU with the Serbia's president,
02:02the real challenge for Aleksandar Vucic is here, in Brussels.
02:05Students who run from Serbia to Brussels to draw attention to issues of corruption and the rule of law
02:11are meeting with members of the European Parliament, as well as with two commissioners.
02:16Earlier, enlargement commissioner Marta Kos stated that the demands of the Serbian students
02:23are essentially the same as what the European Union is asking of Serbia.
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