Kosovo has taken a big step towards membership in the Council of Europe, since the Committee for Politics and Democracy of the Council of Europe has approved the report of the rapporteur for Kosovo, Dora Bakoyannis, where it is recommended that Kosovo has fulfilled the conditions to become a member full Council of Europe.
With the eventual membership of Kosovo in the Council of Europe, citizens will have access to the European Court of Human Rights. Despite the fact that all citizens of Kosovo without distinction would benefit from the Council of Europe, the president of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, is opposing Kosovo’s membership in this organization.
Thus, the professor from Westminster University, Aidan Hehir, says that with these actions that Vucic is taking, he is showing that he does not care about the Serbian community living in Kosovo. Also, Hehir criticizes the Serbian president for violating the Brussels agreements with the opposition they are making to Kosovo to join international organizations.
“Vučić is against Kosovo’s membership because it would further consolidate Kosovo’s citizenship; is a purely political motivation which is in direct contradiction to Article 14 of the 2013 “Brussels Agreement”, which specified that “no party shall block or encourage others to block the other party’s progress on the path of their respective counterparts in the EU”, says the professor at Westminster University.
Kosovo’s membership in the Council of Europe has alarmed the Serbian president, who has said that with this step Serbia is “de facto” expelled from this organization.
