The members of the Serbian Student Ticket maintain that they will not impose sanctions on Russia and that they will keep pursuing the same foreign policy that runs contrary to the one of Brussels and Strasbourg, but insist that the strategic goal of Serbia is to ultimately become a member of the European Union, as Mirjana Nikolić, an MP candidate of the Student Ticket, told AFP/BBC. Despite repeated warnings from EU officials that such a course will not be tolerated.
“You cannot sit on two chairs – ask for money from the EU and ask the other side for gas,” Marta Kos, the European Union’s Commissioner for Enlargement, stated in November of 2025.
So what’s the big idea, you might wonder? How is it that Serbia wants to join the EU but doesn’t want to follow the EU’s rules and decisions? Enter the “joining the EU on our terms”. Serbian (and Balkan) narcissist nationalism dictates that we are already Awesome, so we will be the ones telling the decadent Westerners what to do. In the minds of the Serbian electorate, all that needs to be done at the local front is for “institutions to do their job” – police arrests, courts perform the trials, prisons receive inmates, et presto, no corruption. Only corruption and child sex abuse or murder of a child are considered abhorrent and socially unacceptable, worthy of getting people accused of participating in it tortured to death during detention, like in the case of Dalibor Dragijević from Bor, who turned out to be innocent of any wrongdoing. But hey, all is fair in the Holy Crusade of thinking of the children, right?
Other felonies can be excused by failures of society, personal misfortunes, “circumstances”, Higher National Causes, foreign (read: Western) malign influence, etc.
A True Serb can never do wrong. A True Serb is also very competent, better than the rest, world-class in everything, whether it’s science, sports, or crime.
That’s how we got a promotion of gangster culture, starting with Željko Ražnatović Arkan, with the contemporary media in Serbia producing morally ambiguous stories about real-life criminals like the Pink Panther international gang of robbers, stroking the “Serbia mention” national ego, while the local TV entertainment industry produces serialized shows about criminals airing in prime time like the “Južni Vetar” or “Besa“.
So, seeing how nothing is wrong with Serbia other than “corruption” and a few sex offenders, and that as a nation and a people are superior to the civilizationally declining Collective West, we demand that the EU, which wants to take away Kosovo from us, give us a buffet table from which we will pick and choose as we like.
That same EU that, in our, and Russian and Chinese minds, is just about to collapse, any day now. So gimme moonies, EU occupiers. The unrealities pushed by public figures and the media here are word for word the same as the ones pushed by the Kremlin and Beijing. This isn’t some sort of performance to manufacture consent by attracting nationalists to the cause of joining the EU – it is, in fact, a sincere belief that the Collective West is a failure and that China and Russia are rising and will help us in our national ambition of creating the Serbian World.
[CAPTION: “No one has what a Serb has”: a patriotic song title on a badge (Source: eBay)]
