Serbian Internal Affairs Minister Ivica Dacic, president of the Socialist Party of Serbia, the political organization of the late Slobodan Milošević, said the European Parliament’s resolution on Serbia is a political pamphlet full of lies. “It is a political pamphlet, not a serious document,” Dačić said in a live appearance on the RTS morning news.
You can be sure that anything Ivica Dačić doesn’t like is excellent news for humans on planet Earth.
Some of the student plenums also criticized the EU resolution and lashed out at the independent Commission of Inquiry for Establishing the Responsibility for the Collapse of the Novi Sad Train Station, comprising university professors, legal experts, and former judges of Serbia’s Supreme Court, the European Union, and at the Serbian opposition delegations that visited Strasbourg.
Among the absolute torrent of condemnations of the ills plaguing Serbia that the EU parliament resolution contains are notable points about “…unfortunately, a few violent incidents over the summer of 2025, and isolated cases of radical symbols being displayed and extreme nationalist, pro-Russian and chauvinistic rhetoric being used during the mass protests, which have faced significant criticism from abroad and from within Serbia“, that China’s presence and influence in Serbia has significantly increased in recent years through large-scale infrastructure investments, raising concerns about transparency, adherence to EU standards and environmental compliance saying how “The station project formed part of the Belgrade-Budapest high-speed railway line and was carried out under a Serbia-China intergovernmental agreement, outside the scope of the EU’s ordinary public procurement legislative framework, by two Chinese companies; whereas the 2024 Commission report on Serbia had already warned about the circumvention of procurement rules via such agreements; whereas in March 2025, the European Public Prosecutor’s Office initiated an investigation into the potential misuse of EU funds allocated to the reconstruction of the Novi Sad railway station” and it “holds the Serbian leadership politically responsible for escalating repression, normalizing violence and weakening democratic institutions; deplores the fact that the highest state officials are actively spreading conspiracy theories about the collapse of the canopy being an act of sabotage or terrorist attack; is concerned about the lack of response from state institutions, including law enforcement and the judiciary, to refute these baseless claims”.
Some commentators and netizens have speculated that the shooting and fire incident at the tent camp in front of the People’s Assembly, classified by the prosecutor’s office as attempted murder, is that it could have been staged.
Aleksandar Vučić and other high-ranking members of the Serbian government attended a rally on Thursday held in front of the People’s Assembly evening in support of the man shot at the government-supporter camp.
The opposition Party of Freedom and Justice became an associated member of the Party of European Socialists (PES).
The student protesters are still engaging in hyper-conservative public performances, like making a widely publicized stop at a monastery or the Bosniak Muslim students praying on the roadside while walking to Novi Sad to pay respects to the canopy collapse victims. Not to mention the giant cross displayed in the middle of the night.
All such antics, coming both from the Progressives and the students, irk the more liberal Serbian people to no end. The only homogeneous and determined ideological bloc among the Serbian electorate is now the pro-European voters. See, stubbornness works both ways. Decades of being subjected to hardships caused by parochial, anti-democratic policies and the subsequent disillusionment with the Serbian youth that turned out to be just as far-right as the previous generations have solidified the more liberal public in their desire to vote with a vengeance for pro-EU policies, and out of spite aimed at both sets of what they consider Russian assets – the ruling coalition and the student and civic movement.
The question is, will the centrist parties be capable of tapping that potential?
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