"You can be at the same time both nationalist and pro-European, but I know this is difficult to explain to you in Europe because Serbian nationalism was always presented as something negative. But I love my country just like you love your country, and [I love] my people like you love your people."
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"Transcript of interview with Serbia president Tomislav Nikolic" in Financial Times (4 October 2013)
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