However, in October, Josep Borrell, the EU’s high representative for foreign affairs and security policy, affirmed that Serbia’s EU accession process is stalling because it is not aligning its foreign policy with Brussels’s.
Of course, from the Brussels perspective, nothing would be a better advert for the value of EU membership than having what is perceived as a high‐handed, recalcitrant, inherently eurosceptic UK choose to return to the European fold after all.