Dragan Djilas of Serbia's Freedom and Justice Party emphasized the need for a strong European message to the Western Balkans, advocating for elections in EU candidate countries. Meanwhile, sentiments against EU inclusion rise, with leaders like Aleksandar Vulin promoting "sovereignty" and alternative alliances like BRICS.
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The outrage is all the rage
When a country like Serbia, experiences a social and political crisis, or a society starts showing tendencies, people tend to ask why is it happening and look for a cause, that in their minds, must have a rational explanation. You might not like the answers you get.
Ask your parents why they support Vučić
The Serbian student protesters keep scapegoating the European Union for the problems created by the generations of their parents, who kept electing a paternalist kakistocracy in hopes to make Serbia more like Russia and China, with all the calamities that come with associating with BRICS countries.
Devil-summoning of the Serbian electorate and its consequences
Eurobarometer survey shows that in the Western Balkans, the support for joining the EU is lowest in Serbia, 33%. The practice of fighting fire with fire by using alt-right kakistocratic ideology to fight the alt-right kakistocracy of Aleksandar Vučić is coming back to bite the vindictive and shortsighted Heavenly People.
Serbian pro-EU opposition parties and netizens scold the Russian ambassador
Unlike the student protester front that doesn't want to offend Russia, some parts of the society in Serbia, including notable opposition parties, are not amused by the constant interference of the Russian government in Serbian affairs, especially the vocal support for the Serbian government expressed by the Russian ambassador Aleksandr Botsan-Kharchenko.
All pumped out and nowhere to go
Russian government openly support their Serbian counterparts, through the mouth of the Russian ambassador. One of the reasons for the failure of Serbian student protests is the protesters' desire to keep the BRICS-dominated economy after the removal of SNS, and keep Serbia out of EU.
Myth of the neutrals and other Serbian political fairytales
The student and civic protesters, who represent the third, latest manifestation of Serbian alt-right populist sentiment, following the one that gave rise to Slobodan Milošević in the late 1980s and the second one that returned Aleksandar Vučić to power in 2012.
Long live Marta Kos, long live the European Union
Every loser needs a scapegoat; Serbia found a perfect one - the European Union, the world's largest and most successful peace and economic project.
The pan-European illiberal alliance is very much real
The European alt-right always seems to be there for each other. Aided by their American brethren, support goes from Dodik to Le Pen, MAGA to Dodik and Le Pen and AfD, Dodik to Putin, Vučić to Dodik, Orban to Dodik and Le Pen, round and round they go.
Thirty years after the Srebrenica genocide, Serbia has a new generation of war crimes fans
The majority of Serbian society, and that includes the people in both Serbia and Republika Srpska, continues with the war crimes denial, because it is a basis for the Serbian authoritarian, parochial grievance politics. Yes, by the students in Serbia, as well.
