Youth protests in Serbia, and lessons for the U.S. by @timothysnyder.bsky.social snyder.substack.com/p/youth-prot...

📢 How do citizens in the Western Balkans & Associated Trio see global actors, their partners, and their own future?The #GEOPOWEREU project shares fresh results from a Public Opinion Survey across 🇦🇱🇧🇦🇽🇰🇲🇪🇲🇰🇷🇸🇺🇦🇲🇩🇬🇪
A short🧵⤵️

Judge for yourselves ❤️

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If you want an update on the protests in Serbia, listen to Lazar Popović (student), Irena Joveva (MEP), and me in a panel organised by the Henry Jackson Society on 26 August. www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9k0...

It’s high time indeed! archive.ph/2025.08.18-1...

I just wonder how long the EU and its leaders will continue to - openly or not - support the kleptocratic regime in Serbia, which is the key source of anti-Western sentiment in this country.

Catharsis, rearticulation of desire and ontological insecurity: The case of Serbia’s attachment to Kosovo by @filipejdus.bsky.social and Marina Vulovic.

2/6

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Regime-driven disinformation level up! Ana Brnabić, the speaker of the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, now propels a conspiracy theory that the canopy in Novi Sad killing 16 people was a “diversion” organized to start a “color revolution”.
www.021.rs/story/Novi-S...

Surprise, surprise! The Russian MFA endorses the Vučić regime’s police brutality against pro-democracy protesters. mid.ru/en/foreign_p...

Vučić is going full Lukashenko as his regime escalates violence and repression against pro-democracy protesters. Serbia is rapidly descending into the abyss of a naked dictatorship of fear. balkaninsight.com/2025/08/15/s...

New @risjnl.bsky.social #OpenAccess article by @filipejdus.bsky.social and Marina Vulović out now! 🌟

Entitled: 'Catharsis, rearticulation of desire and ontological insecurity' @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org 📚

Key arguments 👉 buff.ly/4cteZu7
Full article 👉 buff.ly/aBzcLeT

But wait! There's more. @filipejdus.bsky.social and Marina Vulovic explore how a proposed land swap between Serbia and Kosovo resulted in the recovery of Helen of Anjou's heritage to construct Northern Kosovo as a space of Serbian heritage and attachment

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If elections were held now in Serbia, students and the opposition would win by a landslide (+12%) according to the latest poll. To win, Vučić would have to go beyond irregular and unfair practices into the realm of unfree and stolen elections. www.danas.rs/vesti/politi...

🇷🇸 At our joint mid-term conference with GEO-POWER-EU in #Belgrade earlier this week, Prof. Filip Ejdus opened with powerful remarks

Serbia stands at a crossroads —between deepening authoritarianism and the path to EU integration.

@tepsa.bsky.social @horizoneu.bsky.social
@bezbednost.bsky.social

That’s a wrap!
A full house today at our joint conference w/ @reunir.bsky.social in 🇷🇸 — featuring the launch of the GEO-POWER-EU Interdependence Database (shorturl.at/cYbbJ) & insights from both projects! Thank you to all speakers, participants & partners for a great event! @horizoneu.bsky.social

M. Delević, Director at European Bank for Reconstruction and Development,emphasized in her closing remarks:
“After the war in Ukraine, things changed, enlargement gained new momentum and became more geopolitical and we were all reminded that the core purpose of🇪🇺integration is #peace and #stability.”

Constellation of consortia met yesterday in Belgrade to discuss the role of the EU in the Western Balkans in the Eastern Neighbourhood. @GEOPOWER_EU @REUNIR_Horizon #InvigorateEU @HorizonEU

It was a pleasure to host this important meeting ! @bezbednost_org @FPN_Beograd

We are at the Europe House🇷🇸for our joint conference w/ @reunir.bsky.social!
@filipejdus.bsky.social opened the event by noting 🇷🇸 is at a crossroads after 6+ months of political crisis, emphasizing that if #EU🇪🇺 enlargement struggles in the Union's immediate neighborhood, it may struggle elsewhere too

If the enlargement of #EU fails in its immediate neighbourhood, its actorness and influence in the world will be in the question. @filipejdus.bsky.social at the opening of @geopower-eu.bsky.social conference in Belgrade

@jennifermitzen.bsky.social @markodkovacevic.bsky.social

From yesterday’s viva of Tijana Rečević, who successfully defended her PhD thesis on public opinion and common sense in foreign and security policy. Many thanks to the committee members, Professors Kovačević, Đukanović, and Mitzen, for their insightful contributions. Proud to be her supervisor!