{"id":20448,"date":"2025-08-20T12:54:16","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T11:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.masina.rs\/eng\/?p=20448"},"modified":"2025-08-20T12:55:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T11:55:11","slug":"fear-as-strategy-and-europes-passivity-how-global-media-describe-the-situation-in-serbia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.masina.rs\/eng\/fear-as-strategy-and-europes-passivity-how-global-media-describe-the-situation-in-serbia\/","title":{"rendered":"Fear as strategy and Europe\u2019s Passivity: How Global Media Describe the Situation in Serbia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">Sometimes critical, sometimes lenient depending on the circumstances \u2013 that has largely been the tone toward Serbia\u2019s president in the international press. But as repression has become more blatant and the use of force against citizens more widespread, Vu\u010di\u0107\u2019s image abroad has increasingly deteriorated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <em>Financial Times<\/em> notes that after more than a decade in power, experienced authoritarian leaders almost always face a crossroads: either to increase repression, further entrench their circle of oligarch allies, and suffocate the remnants of independent media, or to yield to opposition demands for reform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The paper adds that after eight years as president \u2013 and before that as prime minister \u2013 Vu\u010di\u0107 still governs through what it calls a form of \u201cmanaged democracy\u201d rather than outright autocracy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It concludes that Europe must step up pressure on Vu\u010di\u0107 to act responsibly and to hold genuinely fair elections, in order to prevent deeper democratic backsliding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIf they fail to do so and Serbia continues down the authoritarian path, the blame will not fall only on Vu\u010di\u0107, but also on his Western backers who look the other way,\u201d the London daily warns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"container-lazyload preview-lazyload container-youtube js-lazyload--not-loaded\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/shorts\/cHb5SRiTr0A\" class=\"lazy-load-youtube preview-lazyload preview-youtube\" data-video-title=\"Policija poku\u0161ava da suzbije gra\u0111ane\" title=\"Play video &quot;Policija poku\u0161ava da suzbije gra\u0111ane&quot;\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/shorts\/cHb5SRiTr0A<\/a><noscript>Video can&#8217;t be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/shorts\/cHb5SRiTr0A\" title=\"Policija poku\u0161ava da suzbije gra\u0111ane\">Policija poku\u0161ava da suzbije gra\u0111ane (https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/shorts\/cHb5SRiTr0A)<\/a><\/noscript><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Europe\u2019s Passivity<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The French daily <em>Le Monde<\/em> wrote yesterday that after nine months of nearly continuous protests and demonstrations, the Serbian government still has not managed to suppress the anti-corruption student movement that has shaken the country ever since the collapse of the canopy at the renovated railway station in Novi Sad, Serbia\u2019s second-largest city, in November 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIn power since 2014, first as prime minister and then as president, Aleksandar Vu\u010di\u0107 has never seriously considered student demands for a functional judicial system and the rule of law. He has also refused their call for snap parliamentary elections. After months of belittling entirely peaceful demonstrations, on Tuesday, August 12, Vu\u010di\u0107 embarked on a troubling strategy of intimidation, deploying thugs and hooligans with known ties to powerful organized crime groups in Serbia to provoke demonstrators,\u201d <em>Le Monde<\/em> reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The French paper also highlights Europe\u2019s passivity, noting that Vu\u010di\u0107 clearly hopes the violence will discredit the Serbian students, particularly in the eyes of the EU and its leaders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to <em>Deutsche Welle<\/em>, the Serbian government is cracking down on protests with extreme severity. Journalist Silke Hane of the news portal <em>Tagesschau<\/em> argues that President Vu\u010di\u0107 is now revealing his true face.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThese days, Serbian President Aleksandar Vu\u010di\u0107 is showing his true colors. Last week he unleashed masked thugs on what had been a peaceful protest movement. While party loyalists attacked demonstrators with clubs and fireworks, the police stood by and did nothing. Beatings under police protection,\u201d the German outlet reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"container-lazyload preview-lazyload container-youtube js-lazyload--not-loaded\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/shorts\/iYJb4KkNW0Y\" class=\"lazy-load-youtube preview-lazyload preview-youtube\" data-video-title=\"Izuzetno napeto u Valjevu\" title=\"Play video &quot;Izuzetno napeto u Valjevu&quot;\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/shorts\/iYJb4KkNW0Y<\/a><noscript>Video can&#8217;t be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/shorts\/iYJb4KkNW0Y\" title=\"Izuzetno napeto u Valjevu\">Izuzetno napeto u Valjevu (https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/shorts\/iYJb4KkNW0Y)<\/a><\/noscript><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Boiling Point<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Another respected English newspaper, <em>The Guardian<\/em>, reported after Friday\u2019s demonstrations that anti-government protests in Serbia had escalated, with accounts of police brutality and excessive use of force.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt was the fourth day of unrest in cities across the country, including Belgrade, where police fired tear gas at demonstrators and tried to separate opposing groups of protesters. Dozens of people were injured in violent clashes, while hundreds were detained during the past week, as nine months of largely peaceful anti-corruption and pro-democracy protests reached a boiling point,\u201d the article noted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Describing the atmosphere after Wednesday\u2019s and Thursday\u2019s demonstrations in multiple Serbian cities, the <em>Associated Press<\/em> wrote that for the second day in a row, clashes broke out between Serbian anti-government demonstrators and government supporters in what it called a \u201cmajor escalation\u201d after more than nine months of persistent protests against \u201cautocratic\u201d President Aleksandar Vu\u010di\u0107.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the same week, <em>Reuters<\/em> also reported that SNS supporters in Novi Sad had thrown flares and firecrackers at demonstrators, while <em>Al Jazeera<\/em> covered police use of tear gas in Belgrade. <em>Bloomberg<\/em> stressed that after months of demonstrations, protests in Serbia once again turned violent when Vu\u010di\u0107 supporters clashed with demonstrators in Belgrade, Novi Sad, and Ni\u0161.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\"><em>M.B<\/em>; Translated from Serbian by <em>M.J<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From admiration for the student movement to criticism of nationalist symbols during the Vidovdan protest, foreign media coverage of events in Serbia since November 1 of last year has gone through different phases. Judging by the latest headlines, however, autocrat Aleksandar Vu\u010di\u0107 is running out of room to maneuver. The country he leads is sinking deeper into chaos, and Europe is being urged to increase pressure on his regime in Belgrade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20449,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[182,354,127],"form":[71],"concept":[188],"contents":[356],"coauthors":[5],"class_list":["post-20448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-aleksandar-vucic","tag-protests","tag-serbia","form-news","concept-society","contents-media","infinite-scroll-item","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-25"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Fear as strategy and Europe\u2019s Passivity: How Global Media Describe the Situation in Serbia - Ma\u0161ina English<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.masina.rs\/eng\/fear-as-strategy-and-europes-passivity-how-global-media-describe-the-situation-in-serbia\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Fear as strategy and Europe\u2019s Passivity: How Global Media Describe the Situation in Serbia - Ma\u0161ina English\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"From admiration for the student movement to criticism of nationalist symbols during the Vidovdan protest, foreign media coverage of events in Serbia since November 1 of last year has gone through different phases. 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