The following article is taken from B92.

"When accession negotiations come nearly to the conclusion, a leap will be demanded from Serbia: whoever is in power in Belgrade in five or six years' time, will be put before the inevitability that EU membership is possible only with a recognition of Kosovo. We will see what that recognition will look like."

Nietan also criticized as "arrogant and inappropriate" a list of demands CDU party MP Andreas Schockenhoff delivered on behalf of Germany, containing seven conditions put before Serbia, "which is a sovereign state." He pointed out that, in the meantime, the ruling coalition in Berlin had changed, and the Social Democrats have "a somewhat different, more constructive attitude towards Serbia."

Asked whether PM Aleksandar Vučić enjoys "some sort of bonus" in Berlin as "a model student" when it comes to relations with Priština, Nietan acknowledged that, "given the nationalist past of the SNS party," there were concerns about a possible deterioration in relations between Belgrade and Priština.

But he said that Vučić "positively surprised him" by showing that he was part of "the constructive forces". However, noted Nietan, Vučić must prove himself anew all the time.