{"id":33176,"date":"2022-03-20T18:35:29","date_gmt":"2022-03-20T17:35:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/?p=33176"},"modified":"2022-03-21T15:59:01","modified_gmt":"2022-03-21T14:59:01","slug":"serbia-has-threatened-brussels-by-suggesting-an-alignment-with-russia-says-pm-kurti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/serbia-has-threatened-brussels-by-suggesting-an-alignment-with-russia-says-pm-kurti\/","title":{"rendered":"Serbia threatened Brussels by suggesting an alignment with Russia, says PM Kurti"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kosovo\u2019s PM Albin Kurti declared that by the end of the year, Kosovo will be applying for EU membership.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, he said that it would be important for Kosovo to join the EU Council, as well as the NATO\u2019s Partnership for Peace Program.<\/p>\n<p>Kurti also commented on talks currently taking place between Prishtina and Belgrade, saying that Serbia has always played both sides when it comes to its relationship with the EU and Russia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSerbia has been threatening Brussels, in the sense that it\u2019s been telling [the EU] that if you don\u2019t do as we say, we can move on with an alignment with the Russian Federation and at times, even with China. For example, Kosovo has never received a single vaccine from Russia or China, whereas Serbia has an everlasting connection with Russia,\u201d \u2013 said Kurti.<\/p>\n<p>According to Kurti, Putin would like to see his war expand and the Western Balkans is the region, where he will want to cause more turmoil through his alliance with Serbia.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview for Swiss TV Blick, Kurti said that Kosovo has sided with the Democratic world against the Russian aggression in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat we\u2019re seeing today in Ukraine \u2013 the aggression of a war machine against a nation \u2013 we\u2019ve lived it 23 years ago. We have joined the West in imposing sanctions against the Russian Federation in 2014, when the annexed Crimea and Donbas \u2013 a decision, which Serbia didn\u2019t make then and is continuing to, by never condemning or sanctioning the Russian Federation,\u201d \u2013 said Kurti.<\/p>\n<p><strong>YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/kosovo\/2022\/03\/18\/kurti-kosovo-needs-to-elect-a-brave-prosecutor-general\/\">Kurti: Kosovo needs to elect a brave prosecutor-general<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"title-post\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/kosovo\/2022\/03\/09\/price-hikes-in-kosovo-kurti-this-is-the-cost-of-freedom\/\">Price hikes in Kosovo, Kurti: This is the cost of freedom!<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"title-post\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/kosovo\/2022\/03\/08\/kosovo-is-protected-by-kfor-assures-german-ambassador\/\">osovo is protected by KFOR, assures German ambassador<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kosovo\u2019s PM Albin Kurti declared that by the end of the year, Kosovo will be applying for EU membership. In addition, he said that it would be important for Kosovo to join the EU Council, as well as the NATO\u2019s Partnership for Peace Program. Kurti also commented on talks currently taking place between Prishtina and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":32341,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[163],"tags":[945,308,300,383,284,301,285,637],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Serbia threatened Brussels by suggesting an alignment with Russia, says PM Kurti - Euronews Albania<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/serbia-has-threatened-brussels-by-suggesting-an-alignment-with-russia-says-pm-kurti\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Serbia threatened Brussels by suggesting an alignment with Russia, says PM Kurti - Euronews Albania\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Kosovo\u2019s PM Albin Kurti declared that by the end of the year, Kosovo will be applying for EU membership. 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