Berliner Zeitung: Vucic speaks openly, establishes ties between blocs

BERLIN - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic is a man who speaks freely and establishes ties between geopolitical blocs, amongst countries acting within them and amongst responsible people, says Berliner Zeitung publisher Holger Friedrich, who attended last week's Zurich Speech conference, which featured Vucic as a keynote speaker.

In an extensive Berliner Zeitung piece titled Insights Without Illusions, Friedrich noted that the conference - hosted by the Weltwoche magazine - had been a "memorable meeting" and that, on several occasions, silence had fallen on the gathering "due to astonishment, and sometimes due to confusion as well."

Friedrich added that Vucic was trying to mediate between different sides in what was a "friendly and sometimes unusually open discussion."

"Without harshness, without cynical comments like those Hungarian PM Viktor Orban likes to...