Varga: It is necessary to save Montenegro, things are going badly

Journalist and political scientist Boris Varga said today that the solution to calming the situation in the Western Balkans is to admit NATO member states Albania, North Macedonia and Montenegro to the European Union.
Montenegro needs to be saved, because things are going very badly there. That would be the vision of the EU. And should something be set on fire in the Balkans in order to do this? Unfortunately, it looks like it should. But the admission of those countries to the EU would also be a beacon for Serbia, Kosovo and Bosnia and Herzegovina - Varga said at a forum in the Independent Journalists' Association of Vojvodina (NDNV).
Varga said that Russian President Vladimir Putin is "already rejoicing" because the efforts to have the Western Balkan region join the EU at a slow pace have failed, and he assessed that the situation is now more complicated than in the first half of the 1990s.
Stabilocracy is a form of autocracy and an imitation of democracy. But that certainly does not justify the West because they created an autocracy and a stabilocracy. We will all bear the consequences of the West completely tolerating the Serbian-Russian world in the Western Balkans. The conflict in Kosovo is the last sign that the stabilocracy is moving the red lines and raising the border as much as it can, to cause conflict - he stated.
He assessed that in Serbia "European integration has suffered primarily because of the Russian-Serbian world", and that this can be seen from public opinion surveys, which show that only a third of citizens support Serbia's entry into the Union.
This is an indication that Serbia is changing its foreign policy course. We have a renewed Great Serbian idea - said Varga.
At the forum where the publication "Anti-Western propagandists cut the map of Balkan governorates" was presented, Varga also said that the fight against "colored revolutions" is actually "a new authoritarian coalition".
Moscow and Beijing are in that group, and they gather around them more or less authoritarian countries, such as Serbia. For them, it is the same as the fight against terrorism. The mention of "Majdan" means that a democratic change in society is possible, but it can also be associated with repression that the government can resort to. And the truth is that 'colored revolutions' are a way of fighting for democracy - said Varga.
Regarding the civil protests in Serbia, Varga said that they are an expression of dissatisfaction with the ruler and his collaborators, but that "four taboos still remain: Kosovo, genocide, joining NATO and the EU".
The publication "Anti-Western Propagandists Cut the Map of Balkan Governorates", which was presented at the forum, contains texts about Russian and Chinese influence in Serbia and the region, published over the past year on the Autonomija portal, published by NDNV.
NDNV program director Dinko Gruhonjić said that the aim of the publication is to present the facts to the institutions, the media community, as well as the non-governmental sector and all the citizens of the region, illuminate the motives and point out the possible consequences of the propaganda to which these societies are exposed in numerous aspects.
This is especially important in the context in which most national and local media in the region offer a limited or pro-Russian and Chinese perspective - said Gruhonjić.
The publication was published as part of the "Analysis of Anti-Western Narratives" project, which NDNV is implementing with the support of the US Embassy in Serbia.
M.J.