Serbia's students roar, the EU still whispers: time to speak up - Foundation for European Progressive Studies

Maja Tarbuk Rokvic, a biology teacher from Backa Palanka who quit her job because she did not agree with the pressure, constant criticism for publicly expressing disagreement with the current state of the education system and supporting students, tells N1 that she has not yet found a job, but that she does not regret leaving the old one. She also states that after the March 15 protest in Belgrade, which she says was magnificent, her ears were bl…

The current government cannot fulfill the students' demands because they imply the establishment of a state that Aleksandar Vučić has been destroying all these years, and if he were to establish it, he would collapse himself and his criminal and corrupt regime, the president of the People's Movement of Serbia (NPS) and MP Miroslav Aleksić told Insajder television today.

Aleksandar Vučić's pressure on police officers, who he "threatened" at a rally in Leskovac that anyone who fails to "protect order" will be fired, is growing stronger.

Serbia's students roar, the EU still whispers: time to speak up - Foundation for European Progressive Studies

Over 100 days into Serbia’s student-led protests, a call for the rule of law has grown into a roaring challenge against President Aleksandar Vučić’s governance model. The EU must stop whispering, and speak – clearly, urgently and truthfully. What began as mourning after the deadly collapse of the Novi Sad railway station canopy has become the largest protest movement since the fall of former president Slobodan Milošević in 2000. Students are dem…

The President of the National Movement of Serbia (NPS), Miroslav Aleksić, said this evening in an Insider interview that it seems to him that Vučić is slowly losing the support of the EU and the halo of someone who is everything in the country, who controls the processes, who is a factor of stability in Serbia and the region.