My interview for "Glas Slavonije" (Croatia), with Darko Jerković, on Serbian integration into the EU.

The point is fairly simple - any progress now is practically inconceivable under this government.
Reasons are many, but they merge to a straightforward answer.
www.glas-slavonije.hr/magazin/2025...

From Oct 1 the US Gov will levy sanctions against the Serbian de facto oil monopoly NIS, as majority of its shares are owned by Gazprom and connected companies.

For months the SR gov has refused to nationalise the company (as Vučić values the RU connection) and RU side has refused any buyout.

In his letter to the @financialtimes.com Serbian president Vučić claims that "democracies cannot rewrite electoral timetables ... Doing so would be destabilising, costly, and harmful".
That's rich given that he and his party have initiated 5 parliamentary elections in 9 years (2014-2023) without /1

This morning, the police is focused on arresting students and teenagers, snatching them from the streets even if they have not obviously done anything.

What the regime hopes to achieve is unclear, except to show "strength" to its own dwindling base.

#Serbia #Belgrade #protests

📷 by Gavrilo Andrić

Protests in Belgrade are now practically everywhere; people are casually blocking traffic and quickly move around to frustrate the cops.

Atmosphere is both kind of festive and tense. The police is now widely seen as just pro-regime thugs, as they started beating and arresting student protestors.

So, the Serbian police has apparently arrested Colombian professor Miguel Ángel Beltrán, who is in Novi Sad at an academic congress.

No peeps on this in the national media, still unclear on the background of such a move.

www.semana.com/politica/art...

This morning, regime's armed thugs passing casually by the police and into the camp in front of the presidency building.

Long-standing symbiosis between criminal gangs and the ruling party is once again at public display.

Unlicenced tractors brought to Belgrade center by the party-state apparatus last night, in order to incite more tension and probably prepare for violent crackdown against the student-led protest tomorrow.

Policemen doing nothing. Surreal

... oppo MPs react by triggering smoke grenades and fire extinguishers.

The main banner says "Serbia is rising so the regime will fall!"

Things are heating up while awaiting for the large protest set for 15/3.

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Serbian parliament today: after months of widespread protests, Gvmt is pushing through 60+ legislative acts at once even though the PM has resigned and the speaker is delaying the official recognition of the resignation for the end of session.... /1

After quite some time, with long gaps in writing, it's finally published:

"Yugoslav-American Economic Relations 1945-1971"
(In Serbian cyrillic only, for now)

#coldwar #yugoslavia #usa

A great walk tonight in Belgrade #slavija

Had a pretty lively conference day at @eui-eu.bsky.social #WideningEurope event yesterday at Fiesole.
There was a lot of new people to meet and get up to date with project management practices by the EUI.