Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremic estimated Monday in Belgrade that if a kind of vacuum is created regarding the EU integration process of the Western Balkans, the void will be gradually filled by certain non-European elements in geopolitical sense.

At a panel discussion on the future of Serbian diplomacy at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Jeremic said that the EU is facing the greatest crisis in its history, and that despite the fact that the crisis is economic, it may have political implications.

“That implies a lack of appetite for further EU enlargement to the Western Balkan region,” added Jeremic, who is to discuss the region's integration process at the meeting of foreign ministers of the EU and Western Balkan countries in Luxembourg this afternoon.

Jeremic reiterated that the priorities of Serbia's foreign policy remain EU integration, protection of territorial integrity, regional cooperation and economic diplomacy, as well as that the four pillars of the country's foreign policy are Brussels, Moscow, Beijing and Washington.