Serbia have all of the EASA framework, from its Aviation Authority to it's schooling system. However none of this is EASA approved (yet they claim it is).
After speaking director of the authority, he very much emphasised how their licenses are currently accepted by states such as Swiss, Italy, Netherlands, Ireland and a notably a few others.
However, I rang up EASA and a few of these authorities, and they had differed to what I had been told.
I rang up the UK CAA and sent them a few emails, they all seem to give me the same answer which is 'Yes we do'. However I don't feel like its genuine because I rarely get any legal statement or document to back it up.
Can anyone provide any further insight? I'm completely baffled. I'm barely even a Pilot myself and I'm the first in my family so unfortunately I have no one to really ask.