Politics in Serbia

27.January 2025 KS

Vučić's movement for this and that: Who joins it?

It was announced several times, and the establishment of a new political movement by Aleksandar Vučić was finally announced a few days ago in Jagodina. It is still not known who will access it

New SNS campaign

21.January 2025 Ivan Mitkovski

Counter to bloody fists: Progressive middle finger

The symbol of the red fists, which represents resistance and solidarity after the tragedy in Novi Sad, was targeted by the counter-campaign of the Serbian Progressive Party. In Belgrade, activists began to draw a provocative variation of the symbol, which caused criticism and condemnation

Political extremism within the limits of progressivism

15.January 2025 Nedim Sejdinovic

Right, righter, rightmost

To what extent is a relevant right-wing political option than the progressive one possible in Serbia, that is, is it possible to overtake Aleksandar Vučić on the right? The answer, apparently, is negative. A good part of Vučić's party shares the views of Bihali and his team. They even seem more moderate than, say, Vladimir Đukanović

New issue of "Time"

New issue of Vremena

15.January 2025 TS

Bad government survival syndrome

Why is the huge dissatisfaction in Serbia not translated into political points? And where is the opposition? It is the title theme of the new "Time"

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31.December 2024 Ivan Milenkovic

Canopy fall: The devastating effect of caries

The provisions "stability" and "security" were deleted from the Law on Planning and Construction. That is: legal amendments were adopted which created the legal conditions for the fall of the canopy and the death of fifteen citizens

Drama on Andrić's wreath

19.December 2024 BB

Vučić allegedly leaves for the hundredth time: "Kuku lele nama"

The concerned pro-regime tabloid Informer has "information" that the President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, could step down from that position in the next three months. "Vremen" interlocutors believe that there is no room for panic among Vučić's fans, because it is a propaganda trick. Some, however, are literally crying. Vučić comforted from Brussels that "he will never run away"

Pushing demonstrators and police in Novi Sad

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21.November 2024 Nemanja Rujevic

Batina has one end - still

How, at the first sign that resistance can be organized in a different way than peaceful walks, did the government and its bodies suddenly realize that "beating has two ends"?

Serbian Progressive Party

24.October 2024 BB

The most influential member of the SNS on the party's birthday: Serbia to lead Serbian politics

The most influential member of the Serbian Progressive Party, Aleksandar Vučić, said at a meeting on the occasion of his party's 16th birthday that Serbia should stay on the European path, to preserve its relations with Russia, China and all other friendly countries. Without that policy, there would be no pension, and salaries would be delayed, warned Vučić

Politics and traffic

24.October 2024 BB

No commuter traffic: Buses are needed for the SNS celebration

The only carrier from Pančevo, Pantransport, gave its buses to transport members of the Serbian Progressive Party to the celebration of that party's anniversary, which is being celebrated in Vršac. It is similar to Vršac and Bela Crkva, and no one is interested in how the children from the surrounding villages will come to school

Portrait of a contemporary: Nebojša Bakarec

23.October 2024 Jovana Gligorijevic

The man who escaped from the transcript

The hero of our story has been in politics practically since the beginning of the multi-party system, and then again - nothing. Nebojša Bakarec, despite his efforts, remains so inconspicuous that this is what makes him special and requires a deeper analysis

Vladimir Đukanović and Bratislav Gašić

Vladimir Đukanovic about the snitch within the SNS

05.October 2024 TS

A progressive who "would like to be a caliph instead of a caliph": Is Đukanović accusing Gašić

Vladimir Đukanović's interview for the weekly "Expres" is a lament about a mysterious party and state functionary who is destroying the Serbian Progressive Party from the inside, spreading dirty information to the opposition and Twitter users and wants to be a "caliph instead of a caliph". Although he does not reveal his name, many suspect that it is Bratislav Gašić

SNS – the party of flyers

17.July 2024 Nedim Sejdinovic

The role of Shakespeare in Serbian politics

One of the theses that is often heard is: Vučić would never have won absolute power and for years did whatever came to his mind if the so-called betrayal of elites, enormous configurations. What does that mean? Representatives of various elites put their personal or group interests far above the interests of citizens and the community. And those interests, in this case, are not only different, but completely opposed. In popular terms, Vučić played on greed and did not make a mistake

WHERE AFTER BOYCOTT, ANTI-BOYCOTT AND SPREAD: Former coalition Serbia against violence

Opposition in a broken mirror

11.July 2024 Nedim Sejdinovic

Where are they and what should they do?

What after the June elections? Opposition party actors from both sides of the "blue river" speak on this topic for "Vreme". Thus, the leader of the "Srce" party Zdravko Ponoš, the president of the Movement of Free Citizens Pavle Grbović, the vice-president of the People's Movement of Serbia Borislav Novaković and the political analyst Dejan Bursać. By the way, "Srce" boycotted the Belgrade elections, but not the elections in some other local areas, while PSG and NPS are part of the so-called fighting party, that is, the opposition that decided to participate in the June elections.

Protests against Rio Tinto in January 2022 brought thousands of people to the streets

Internal politics

25.June 2024 Tijana Stanic

Opposition after division and election fiasco: Together against lithium?

The elections were over, the opposition was divided, and the Serbian Progressive Party emerged as the absolute winner again. What is the current political situation in Serbia, what is left for the opposition and can the rebellion against Rio Tinto be fuel for the fight against the ruling structure? Political analyst Dejan Bursać tells "Vreme" that this is unexplored territory

The key factor for the government in the Old Town: Marko Bastać

The fight for local government

13.June 2024 Nemanja Rujevic

The fickle Bastać surrenders the Old City to the progressives?

According to "Vremena" sources, Marko Bastać will give the majority in the Old Town to the progressives, so the opposition will not manage this municipality either. Although relatively young, Bastać has an impressive history of political outbursts, such as the one when he put half of his family on the electoral list

Topic number II: The case of a residential and commercial building in Niš

29.May 2024. Ana Adamovic

The investor builds, the institutions sleep

What do citizens - ordinary people without a background - face when an investor decides to build a giant eight-story building five meters from their house? What does life look like with a view of the concrete, while construction workers' butts are falling on the terrace, and the ambulance can't get to the entrance? What does the system say to that? And how persistently can the authorities remain silent? And how, after one investor was denied the location conditions for the construction of the building, within three days those conditions were approved