Ahead of NATO summit, Serbia buffeted between West and Russia


  • World
  • Thursday, 28 Nov 2019

FILE PHOTO: Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic and NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg attend an international field exercise organized by Ministry of the Interior of Serbia and NATO's Euro-Atlantic Disaster Response Coordination Centre (EADRCC) in Mladenovac, Serbia, October 8, 2018. REUTERS/Djordje Kojadinovic

LONDON/BELGRADE (Reuters) - Since October, French President Emmanuel Macron has questioned the effectiveness of NATO, hit pause on EU enlargement and called for a new 'strategic relationship' with Russia.

Plenty of countries have reason to pay close attention to his "shake it up" style of diplomacy, but few places will feel his words more keenly than Serbia.

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