Orban: Serbia should be next to join EU

Hungary wants the EU to enlarge and thinks Serbia should be the next country to join, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said in Budapest on Wednesday.

Orban was speaking at the opening of the 6th Annual Forum of EU Strategy for the Danube Region, Beta is reporting.

"We want EU's enlargement, for all Danube region countries to become members as soon as possible. Serbia should join first, because its accession would help us use the potential Serbia would give to the EU," he said, according to the report.

Orban then noted that EU's more prosperous members do not want to continue with enlargement.
"When you translate something not wanted in Brussels to 'Brusselian' - then it means 'enlargement fatigue," he said, and added that Hungary was in favor of the EU expanding "because it strengthens Europe and its outer borders, especially when it comes to combating...