On the agenda of the plenary session of the European Parliament on Tuesday, and at the request of several political groups, the political crisis in Serbia will be discussed.
The political crisis in Serbia was on the agenda of the plenary session of the European Parliament on Tuesday, February 11, said the rapporteur of the European Parliament for Serbia, Tonino Picula.
Picula told the Beta agency that the adoption of the resolution is not foreseen, but only a discussion.
On Tuesday, the EP will deal with Serbia at the request of the parliamentary groups Socialists and Democrats, Obnovimo, Zeleni and the European People's Party (EPP).
As an argument for the debate, Picula stated that the situation in Serbia has been constantly escalating since the collapse of the canopy of the Novi Sad railway station on November 1 last year, when 15 people died.
"Mass regular protests and marches are in progress, emphasizing the demand to determine the responsibility that led to the tragedy." There are constant physical and verbal attacks on protest participants. The situation is still very tense, and the prime minister resigned ten days ago, which led to the collapse of the entire government", it is pointed out.
Picula, who announced his visit to Serbia by the end of February, also reminded that the European Commission expressed concern about reported incidents against protest participants and called for a quick investigation, as well as that the Socialists and Democrats, the parliamentary group to which he belongs, as well as some other parliamentary groups in the EP, came out with their assessment of the situation in Serbia.
Let us recall that at the end of January, the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats, the second largest group in the EP with 136 MPs, as well as the parliamentary groups of the Greens, which has 53 MPs and Renew Europe with 77 MPs, condemned the violence against the protest participants in Serbia and supported the students and their demands.
The largest grouping in the European Parliament, the European People's Party (EPP), which has 188 deputies, assessed that students and citizens of Serbia have the right to peaceful demonstrations, but that Serbia does not need radicalization, but dialogue and work on European reforms.
More than 40 professors of the Faculty of Law submitted a criminal complaint to the First Basic Public Prosecutor's Office in Belgrade against unknown members of the Gendarmerie due to the suspicion that on July 3, shortly after midnight, they violated several laws by using excessive force during an intervention in front of and in the area of the Faculty of Law in Belgrade
The Higher Public Prosecutor's Office in Belgrade filed an indictment against three persons responsible for the "Ivanović" Home for the Elderly and Adults in Barajevo, where 2025 people died in a fire in January 11.
Starović assessed that "the latest form of anti-Semitism that comes from the left has been recorded in the United States of America and has been imported to Serbia, where it can be seen through student and plenum movements."
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Students of the College of Electrical Engineering and Computing (VISHER) were thrown out of the faculty building, and their belongings remained locked inside. The entrance was closed, the locks were changed, and during the day the police detained citizens who had gathered in support.
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Aleksandar Vučić is no longer able to restore balance in the rebellious society. This is best seen in the level of speech: none of his remarks go through anymore
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