Mayor of Belgrade

15.November 2025. Bojan Bednar

Where is the Serbian Mamdani?

New Yorkers elected the leftist and Muslim Zohran Mamdani as mayor, who announced the fight against poverty and class inequality. Could such a miracle happen in Belgrade?

Brief chronology 2025

05.November 2025. Bosko Jaksic

Lucifer's envoy to Serbia

The fire becomes an eternal flame. The student rebellion made an incredible, until a short time ago, unimaginable contribution to the development of the democratic consciousness of this nation. Stop talking about them as the future. They are the present. We have been waiting for them for decades, let's not let them disperse. Reliance on violence is a reliable indicator that the regime is entering a terminal phase

Research on democracy

13.September 2025. KS

Collapse of democracy in the world: How is Serbia doing?

Western countries are leading the way in promoting the key elements of democracy, and in the Balkans, Slovenia is clearly more successful, while Croatia and Montenegro are lagging behind, and Serbia and other countries in the region are even weaker.

Personal attitude

10.September 2025. Daniel Bochsler

The two faces of polarization

The criminal activities of politicians and "businessmen" (to use a euphemism) can bring entire economies to the brink of collapse. Moldova has barely recovered from the 2014 banking scandal. Then the three largest banks stole 12 percent of GDP through fraudulent transactions, and the state stepped in and is still suffering the consequences of the financial collapse today. One of the oligarchs behind the bank robberies, Ilan Shor, became actively involved in politics

Future

31.July 2025 Uroš Mitrović

The Rise of the Dark Enlighteners

The "Dark Enlightenment" ideological direction is a neo-reactionary movement known by the abbreviation NRx, and represents a political-philosophical direction that directly questions the fundamental values of the Enlightenment - democracy, equality, universal human rights. The text that follows is not for everyone's eyes

History teaches us

10.April 2025 Nebojsa Jovanovic

How democracy was created

Pisistratus had his staff and distributed money from the state budget for better cultivation of olives, development of trade and export, construction of roads, repair of the city's water supply. And then the learned aristocrat Cleisthenes returned from political emigration

Vukašin Milićević, new director of the "Ljuba Davidović" Foundation

"Ljuba Davidović" Foundation

06.March 2025. TS

The Democratic Party renewed the work of the "Ljuba Davidović" Foundation 

The Democratic Party renewed the work of the "Ljuba Davidović" Foundation for the Advancement of Democracy, founded in 1991. "The historical moment we are in requires us to get involved in political processes and make our contribution in the fight for the freedom of Serbian society," said Vukašin Milićević, the new director of the foundation. 

Personal attitude

18.September 2024. Edward Ferguson

Building democracy

I see the binary choice between lithium and democracy as a false dichotomy. The United Kingdom supports the Government of Serbia in its decision to further develop the Jadar project and to fully understand the risks and ways in which it is managed. At the same time, we work closely with the Government, Parliament and civil society to strengthen the foundations of Serbian democracy. This is not contradictory. People have a number of concerns about the "Jadar" project. Some of these are rooted in widespread misinformation and can be easily answered. But there are also real environmental risks and concerns that should be taken seriously

European Union

19.May 2024. DW

When minors vote

In five EU countries, you can vote in the European elections from the age of 16. Some experts say that an aging population has made politics increasingly biased towards pensioners and that, as a balance, perhaps 14-year-olds should be able to vote.

Interview: Florian Bieber, political scientist

07.February 2024. Nedim Sejdinovic

Vucic has become a problem for Europe

For the President of Serbia, fair and democratic elections are a much bigger threat than a compromise with Kosovo. His power depends on full control over the state, institutions, media and political processes. He will do everything to prevent fundamental changes. On the other hand, he will offer everything else to preserve Western support or at least reduce the pressure

Column

11.December 2023. Ivan Ivanji

Kids, get out and vote!

I am curiously and anxiously awaiting the night of December 17. What will my fellow citizens and I decide about the immediate future? Can I, as an old man, influence some people? It's worth a try

Side effects

07.December 2023. Teofil Pančić

Tears are OK... and 2500 dinars is not bad either

It is very important to be able to make a distinction between the one who works in the interest of the "average voter", although he sometimes ironizes and laments the apparent futility of his work, and the one who destroys and invalidates the same "average voter" while hypocritically flattering him.

Side effects

15.November 2023. Teofil Pančić

Patronage for democracy

The narrative about "alienated elites" ("deep state"?) that manage all processes from the shadows is the most important part of the populist ideological foundation. And the more invisible they are, the more undoubtedly they exist. That's how magical thinking works

Personal attitude

08.November 2023. Maja Stojanović

A road paved with good intentions

There is a generally accepted thesis, unfortunately also from the international community, that statements by ambassadors of foreign countries that support free media or human rights defenders represent interference in the internal affairs of the state. It is exactly the opposite - the international community, in its democratic impotence or incompetence, keeps the parties in power, not distinguishing between cooperation with the state and non-criticism towards the party in power and its actions.

Personal attitude

21.September 2023. Ivan Vejvoda

Enlargement: The Imperative for the European Union

The report of the Franco-German expert group is the most important concrete contribution to emerge from recent discussions on the need for the European Union to take its destiny more decisively into its own hands.

Side effects

26.July 2023 Teofil Pančić

Spanish villages, Serbian jobs

Being aware of when (and where) it is time to watch movies and when to go to the polls is of long-term benefit. Mixing those two things up can be extremely damaging in the long run