Dacic: Single economic zone no substitute for EU membership

TRIESTE - Serbia welcomes the Berlin Initiative as Belgrade believes it demonstrates that the EU is maintaining the enlargement agenda, Serbian FM Ivica Dacic said in Trieste Wednesday, adding that consent on a single economic area in the region was a good thing but that the concept could not be accepted as a substitute for EU membership.

Dacic's position was echoed by Albanian PM Edi Rama, who was taking part in a special broadcast from Trieste alongside Dacic, Macedonian PM Zoran Zaev and Regional Cooperation Council Secretary-General Goran Svilanovic.