{"id":186997,"date":"2025-09-09T14:57:55","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T12:57:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/?p=186997"},"modified":"2025-09-09T14:57:56","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T12:57:56","slug":"politico-on-the-situation-in-serbia-eu-is-hardening-stance-toward-vucic-over-severe-police-repression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/politico-on-the-situation-in-serbia-eu-is-hardening-stance-toward-vucic-over-severe-police-repression\/","title":{"rendered":"POLITICO ON THE SITUATION IN SERBIA: EU Is Hardening Stance Toward Vu\u010di\u0107 Over Severe Police Repression!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The <strong>European Union<\/strong> is hardening its stance toward <strong>Belgrade<\/strong> due to severe police repression in Serbia, while protests are persistently ongoing, writes the Brussels portal &#8220;<strong>Politico<\/strong>&#8221; today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;In recent weeks, there has been a change in attitude within the <strong>European Commission (EC)<\/strong>, and a different approach toward Serbia is being supported,&#8221; Politico reports, citing an EC official.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And, as it adds, &#8220;Serbia is still theoretically a candidate for EU membership one day, despite a regression in strengthening democratic values.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Politico states that this has been highlighted ahead of today&#8217;s discussion about Serbia in the <strong>European Parliament<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And it says that <strong>European Commissioner Marta Kos<\/strong>, who has hardened her positions toward the Serbian government and underlined that &#8220;the EU has a problem with Belgrade,&#8221; is requesting that Serbian President <strong>Aleksandar Vu\u010di\u0107<\/strong> clearly present which side he is on, after his recent trip to <strong>China<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The report emphasizes that Kos underlined that &#8220;Vu\u010di\u0107 has an understanding of democracy that is highly questionable&#8221; and said that &#8220;his government, on the contrary, must focus on restoring media freedom, building an independent judiciary, and stopping the violence carried out by the authorities.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><mark style=\"background-color:#FFFFFF;color:#d21414\" class=\"has-inline-color\">MORE TOPICS:<\/mark><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/turkey-exhausted-after-the-epic-match-with-serbia-atamans-chosen-ones-through-the-eye-of-a-needle-against-sweden-to-the-quarterfinals\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">TURKEY EXHAUSTED AFTER THE EPIC MATCH WITH SERBIA: Ataman\u2019s chosen ones through the eye of a needle against Sweden to the quarterfinals!<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/american-media-police-stormed-peaceful-demonstrators-who-oppose-authoritarian-rule\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><strong>AMERICAN MEDIA: Police stormed peaceful demonstrators who oppose authoritarian rule!<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/a-croat-shot-and-seriously-wounded-in-germany-he-attacked-the-police-with-a-knife-and-then-tried-to-escape\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">A CROAT SHOT AND SERIOUSLY WOUNDED IN GERMANY: He attacked the police with a knife, and then tried to escape!<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/from-a-megaphone-he-said-they-were-not-invited-the-dean-prevented-the-police-from-breaking-into-the-pmf-building-in-novi-sad\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">FROM A MEGAPHONE HE SAID THEY WERE NOT INVITED: The dean prevented the police from breaking into the PMF building in Novi Sad!<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/hit-the-concrete-with-the-back-of-his-head-see-the-brutal-attack-by-the-gendarmerie-on-an-older-man-with-a-crutch-video\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">HIT THE CONCRETE WITH THE BACK OF HIS HEAD: See the brutal attack by the Gendarmerie on an older man with a crutch! (VIDEO)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/students-and-citizens-released-from-the-occupied-rectorate-police-took-over-the-building-in-novi-sad-and-one-doctor-was-also-arrested\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">STUDENTS AND CITIZENS RELEASED FROM THE OCCUPIED RECTORATE: Police took over the building in Novi Sad, and one doctor was also arrested!<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><strong>Source<\/strong>: <\/strong>Nova.rs; <strong>Foto<\/strong>: ATA Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Union is hardening its stance toward Belgrade due to severe police repression in Serbia, while protests are persistently ongoing, writes the Brussels portal &#8220;Politico&#8221; today. &#8220;In recent weeks, there has been a change in attitude within the European Commission (EC), and a different approach toward Serbia is being supported,&#8221; Politico reports, citing an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2169,"featured_media":185292,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[351,73,8208,8547,5536,4506,113,4837],"class_list":["post-186997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking","tag-eu","tag-evropska-unija","tag-policijska-brutalnost","tag-politiko","tag-protesti-u-srbiji","tag-spoljna-politika","tag-srbija","tag-studenti-u-blokadi","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"Serbiantimes.info EN","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186997"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":187020,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186997\/revisions\/187020"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}