French media: What is the purpose of Macron's visit to Serbia

Several newspapers write that the purpose of the visit is to strengthen relations between Paris and Belgrade.

Thus, the newspaper “20 Minutes”, according to b92, points out that relations between the two countries have deteriorated on November 1st of this year at the ceremony for the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I because of concessions to the protocol (even because of putting the Kosovo Flag on the Notre Dame Church, Koha.net) and adds that after that many Serbs and “have rejected the Macron visit to Belgrade<3>.

Many Serbs, wrote the paper, have thereafter stressed that their country, in relation to residents, in World War I has mostly suffered casualties fighting money in hand with the French at the East Font.

The text points out that France's refusal in 2017 also to hand over to Belgrade Ramush Haradinaj accused of Serbian jurisdiction for “war crimes” in 1998 ) 1999, “Serbs had already awakened anti-French feelings, however small that”.

It is said that many Serbs have not pardoned France why he participated in the 1999 Western air campaign that ended the Kosovo war and the departure of Serb forces from Kosovo.

This NATO-led operation remains a major humiliation for many Serbs. This cooling in the relationship is also compounded in weakening economic ties”, the newspaper estimates.

It is remembered that this is the first visit by a French chairman since Jacques Chirac's stay in Serbia in 2001, several months after Slobodan Milosevqi's collapse.

The newspaper La Croix also warns Macroni's visit to Serbia, during which it is expected to be discussed both Kosovo and Serbia's differences in reaching the final agreement between the two countries.

A special article on this visit has also been published by the French news agency AFP.