Brnabic: Joining EU is marathon

Joining the EU is a question of endurance, not competing against others, Serbian Prime Minister Ana Brnabic has told the Brussels-based website EURACTIV.com

According to Brnabic, Serbia's goal is to close all negotiating chapters "between 2020 and 2022."

"For Serbia, joining the EU is like a marathon. When you run a marathon you are not competing against anyone else but yourself. In that sense, I don't think any country should be bothered by who is the front or second runner," she said.

The first woman to head Serbia's government also "highlighted the progress made by Serbia over the last three years to regain macroeconomic stability and fiscal discipline," the article, quoted on Tuesday by Beta, said.

Asked whether she agreed with European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, who said in his State of the Union speech that Montenegro and Serbia could...