CRIMINAL OFFENSE OF THREATENING TERRITORIAL INTEGRITY AND POTENTIAL ACCOUNTABILITY OF TOP STATE BODIES
CRIMINAL OFFENSE OF THREATENING TERRITORIAL INTEGRITY AND POTENTIAL ACCOUNTABILITY OF TOP STATE BODIES

Summary/Abstract: In the context of the ongoing talks on the status of Kosovo and Metohia, there is frequent mention in the public discourse of the possibility of Serbia’s top state bodies ceding, through a potential agreement with the bodies of so-called Kosovo, a portion of Serbian territory for the sake of uncertain accession to the European Union. The paper considers the current criminal and questions of constitutional law that arise in relation to that possible disposition. The author advocates the position that ceding a portion of territory in line with the Serbian Constitution and applicable criminal legislation constitutes punishable behavior. Ceding part of the territory to another entity is possible only in a proceeding envisaged by the Constitution.

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