Vucic: I am certain Serbia will not join EU soon

DAVOS - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Thursday in Davos he was certain Serbia would not join the EU soon and noted that he was slightly pessimistic about EU accession and that the EU's popularity had declined in the region.

I am slightly pessimistic about the possibility of Serbia and everyone else in the region joining the EU in the relatively near future, he told a World Economic Forum panel titled Widening Europe's Horizons.

We are in talks, but we will see - we have views that differ from those of the EU, he added.

He said Serbia had been one of the four fastest-growing economies in the past three years.

The question is how to continue with similar or higher growth and do other things, Vucic noted.

There are no big dreams when it comes to EU accession, he said.

We are not as enthusiastic as we used to be and, in a way, the...