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| Doris Pack |
Former European Parliament deputy, Doris Pack has voiced against the idea of correcting the borders in the Balkans, taking into account the historical course and the 1990s.
In an interview to Radio Free Europe, Pack said that many European politicians today were not part of politics in the 1990s, so they can not understand the situation or even do not recognize it."If you are really aware of what happened in the past years, then you should not let the borders change. If this happens then marks the beginning of the end. We know what happened in this region. Many modern European politicians have not been part of politics in the 1990s and therefore can not understand the situation or simply do not recognize it. But those who have knowledge of what has happened there, those who know the region and its mentality, must be very careful," she said.
Pack said, among other things, that it is incomprehensible of how Serbia's President Aleksandar Vucic and Kosovo President Hashim Thaci are in favor of this policy.
"What is being played now is not in Kosovo's interest, 95 percent of Kosovo's citizens are opposed to changing borders. I hope the solution will be found, but not in changing the borders," added Pack among other things.
Speaking of Russia's influence in the region, the former MP, who was also a rapporteur for the European Parliament for Bosnia and Herzegovina, said that Russia is not interested in helping the Balkan region countries.
"Russia has selfish interests, in the sense that does not want these countries to be part of NATO. It has failed with Montenegro, but it will not succeed either with Macedonia. It uses the EU's interest in the Balkans to cause problems," she said.