For Serbian civil society, it is the authorities’ widespread corruption that is seen as the trigger behind the tragedy at the heart of the mobilisations.

Serbian students, who are blocking the Radio and Television of Serbia (RTS) for the eleventh day, saw off the student marathoners who will run a relay marathon from Novi Sad to Brussels in order to in...

Students will run all the way from Belgrade to Brussels over 18 days, planning to address the European Parliament about the massive anti-corruption protests shaking Serbia.

A total of 80 students cycled from Serbia to France.

The blockade is part of wider demonstrations against government corruption.

YouTube video by Reuters

STRASBOURG – A group of eighty Serbian students arrived in Strasbourg on the evening of 15 April, after 13 days of cycling through Europe. On Wednesday, they met with Members of the European Parliament and Council of Europe representatives. The students were greeted on Wednesday evening in Strasbourg by hundreds of citizens, including many members of the Serbian diaspora, as well as the city’s deputy mayor. The emotional greeting resembled the scenes from student marches across Serbia, which started in late January. At the same time, hundreds of citizens blocking the buildings of public broadcasters in Serbia, RTS and RTV,

In a remarkable display of determination, a group of Serbian university students cycled more than 1,300…

The Serbian students and teachers have moral credibility, which explains the huge mobilisation, explains ex-justice minister Božo Prelević. Now he calls for a temporary technocratic government of experts to replace Aleksandar Vučić — as happened in 2000, after the fall of Slobodan Milošević.

Over the past five months, Serbia has been inundated with a massive wave of student-led protests. Since November, what began as a grassroots student movement has grown into a nationwide revolution. Little by little, Serbian students have united thousands of people against the endemic corruption that has plagued their country for years. ENTR reports on an unprecedented student-led movement.