Minister of Foreign Affairs Vuk Jeremic said yesterday in Bratislava that it is likely that the EU Council will decide at its meeting in Luxembourg on 25 October to submit Serbia’s EU candidacy application to the European Commission.

After a meeting with foreign ministers of the Visegrad Group member states and the Western Balkans, Jeremic told Fonet news agency that the Visegrad Group, made up of Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, with the latter country being the current chair, strongly supports the European perspective of the Western Balkans.

The Western Balkans are one of the priorities for this group which is of great political and practical importance because Hungary will take over the EU presidency next year, and then Poland, explained Jeremic, who also met with European Enlargement Commissioner Stefan Fule on the margins of the event.

He noted that next year might be decisive for the European future of Serbia and the entire region.

Apart from Stefan Fule, the meeting of the Visegrad Group was also attended by a representative of Belgium, which presides over the EU, the foreign ministers of Serbia, Croatia, Montenegro, Bosnia-Herzegovina, FYRMacedonia, Albania and a representative of UNMIK/Kosovo.