European Commissioner for Enlargement

We'll get to that a little bit later.

But in the lead-up to the funeral, uh, y- European Commissioner for Enlargement, Marta Kos, who herself is from Slovenia, another former Yugoslav country, she was planning on visiting Serbia for some meetings, and when the news came out of the funeral, or rather how much the government showed, "We still stand behind what Mladić did," we, uh...

How the s- the religious authorities were saying similar things, she canceled her visit.

She said, quote, "The glorification surrounding his death is incompatible with the values on which the EU is built." End quote.

Yeah, and this is one of the countries that Ursula von der Leyen is not visiting, ostensibly because it's got an election, but actually we should remember that there was this, uh ...

We've spoken about it on another podcast, this funeral for a convicted war criminal, Mladić, and in response to that, the EU's Enlargement Commissioner, Marta Kos, actually announced that she would be canceling a visit to Serbia.

And there's been a cacophony of voices speaking out and saying this is absolutely unacceptable and that Serbia is moving further away from the EU path.

And indeed, there have been significant instances of influence operations which are assumed to be run by Russia in Serbia.

And after it was put more in the light, it was act as a catalysator for the bigger protests, which are overtook the streets in Tirana and in, also in the bigger to- towns in Albania, and also in the Albanian diaspora as well.

And during a press conference with the Commissioner for Enlargement, Edi Rama had to announce that they will revise the state law for the national protection sites.

So most possibly, the amendment will be revised, and the alterations will be revised.

But the status of this ongoing construction work is, I don't know if it will be challenged.