Large political systems are inert. Their gears are slow to start, but once they're spinning they're hard to stop and change direction. When they change it, the return to the old enters the historical timelines.
That's how it is to the European Union. Its greatest virtue is also its greatest weakness in relation to autocracies: procedures formulated in the glory of democracy. It is difficult to reconcile the interests of 27 member states with veto power on many issues, decisions are made slowly, often very slowly, and implemented even more slowly.
The harshest EP resolution on Serbia ever: Uncovering the Vučić regime
Vučić lulled in self-indulgence
Aleksandar Vučić he was very good at abusing the Union's bureaucratic and bureaucratic structure for over a decade. Beneath his many masks, the narcissistic self-indulgence of the macher, who drags high-ranking EU representatives as he pleases, ironic remarks about the barren Union, mocking and insulting "Europeans" often broke through.
He, who studied the mistakes of Slobodan Milošević very well, lulled in the years of impunity in which everything and anything happened to him, began to ignore the warnings that came from Brussels, which had no concrete effect. He forgot how Milosevic first became a "Balkan butcher", so that he would be given a chance as an "inevitable factor of peace and stability in the Balkans". After numerous warnings that he did not look back on, he died in the prison of the Hague Tribunal for war crimes committed in the late Yugoslavia.
Aleksandar Vučić's options
The harshest Resolution of the European Parliament on Serbia ever indicates that the cogs that drive EU policy towards Serbia have changed direction. It is a slap in the face for the progressive non-democratic regime, the last warning before exclusion. It is supported by the pats that Vučić previously received in Belgrade in front of the cameras, from the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen.
The President of Serbia received the message from Strasbourg and Brussels. How seriously he took her is another question. Just like whether he will push until the end as he has done so far, or he will change his internal and foreign policy under pressure in the hope that he will not suffer legal consequences for everything he has done, when there will inevitably be a change of government if he does what is required of a country that is a candidate for EU membership: establishing a rule of law, free and fair elections and freedom of the media.
The EP resolution on Serbia is not directed against Serbia, as interpreted by the regime media. It is an incentive for the democratization of Serbia, if it would not finally move towards EU membership. Support for the Union in Serbia did not decline because of any threats or warnings, but because of the absence of any reaction by the European Commission to all the inactions of the Vučić regime directed against its own citizens.
