Balgarianovinite.com European Commissioner for Enlargement Marta Kos said Serbia has not received EU payments since adopting a controversial package of judicial laws, although no formal decision has been taken to freeze the funding, Serbian media reported.
“I have never said that the funds were frozen. In fact, this is very important,” Kos told reporters in Brussels.
“What we are doing now is continuously checking whether all countries receiving money under the Growth Plan meet the required criteria. It is true that since the judicial laws were adopted a few months ago, we have not made any payments, but no formal decision has been taken to suspend them,” she added.
On April 30, Kos said the European Commission had halted payments because of the controversial judicial legislation, which she described as “a significant step backwards in Serbia’s European integration”.
The package of judicial laws, adopted by the Serbian parliament in January at the proposal of a lawmaker from the ruling majority, drew strong criticism from the European Commission and Serbia’s legal community, which argued that the changes threatened judicial independence.
At the end of April, a European Commission spokesperson said the opinion issued by the Venice Commission on the legislation was fully in line with the Commission’s position.
Meanwhile, Serbian officials have said that new amendments aligned with the Venice Commission’s recommendations are expected to be adopted by parliament in May.
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