28 Aug 2020

“The essence is that in the heart of the regime of Aleksandar Vučić, not only is there no political will, but there is not a shred of enthusiasm for anything that the Treaty on the European Union defines in Article Two as basic democratic and liberal values ​​of the EU. What motivates the regime to maintain the facade of Europeanization is nothing but the mere fact that the EU members and the Union itself, and not Russia and China, are the largest trading partners, largest investors and largest donors of aid to Serbia. This has been shown during the COVID-19 pandemic. And the regime knows that without all these means, many of which are disappearing, similar to, say, in Hungary, in the pockets of structures and people close to the regime, it cannot be sustained.”

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Vedran Džihić

   Researcher, Professor

Senior Researcher with the Austrian Institute for International Affairs and a lecturer at the University of Vienna

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Aleksandar Vucic presidency and the relationship with Europe

Covid-19 in Serbia

Serbia - EU relations

Serbia politics