[6] Rapid development of bilateral relations followed, so that the people in Serbia saw a great new friend in "mighty France", that could protect them from the Ottomans and Habsburgs.

Several Serbian kings from this period studied at universities in Paris, as well as large part of the future diplomats.

[7] The members of four generations of the national elite known as 'Parisians' played an important role in the political life of modern Serbia.

[13] Even today, actions and alliance from the WWI remain deeply ingrained in the collective consciousness of a large number of Serbs.

[5] In 1964 Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and France signed 6 year bilateral trade agreement which provided Yugoslavia with the same trading conditions France was providing for the OECD member countries[14] contributing to further development of Yugoslav relations with the European Economic Community.

A leaked diplomatic cable suggested that France had made it clear that Serbia could not enter the EU without recognizing Kosovo's independence.

[15] France participated in the 1999 NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, which resulted in a UN administration of Kosovo and then to eventual independence in which Serbia does not recognise.

Serbian and French Presidents Boris Tadić and Nicolas Sarkozy signed in Paris at April 2011 a political declaration meant to support Serbia's EU integration.