r/europe • u/BkkGrl Ligurian in Zürich (💛🇺🇦💙) • 16d ago

мега нит 🇷🇸✊ Serbian protests Megathread

Serbia is currently experiencing protest and clashes against the government and its police forces.

This thread is to gather all the single pieces of media, pictures and videos.

However every main event and news in the form of link will deserve its own topic.

Thanks for your collaboration

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u/Mou_aresei Serbia 16d ago

For anyone wondering how the EU might help in this situation - place vučić and his cronies under individual sanctions, freeze their assets abroad. And stop clapping him on the back. Being deeply concerned is not going to help, time to take some real action.

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u/jaaval Finland 16d ago

Frankly, I'm not sure if sanctions would help here. It would fuel the line of defense that the protest are somehow arranged from outside. The good thing about not reacting is that it's very clear this is a Serbian issue. And freezing foreign assets wouldn't immediately hurt them but might make them more desperate to stay in power instead of just fleeing somewhere else.

On the other hand, fuck them.

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u/Professional_Ant4133 Serbia 16d ago

Frankly, I'm not sure if sanctions would help here.

Lol, stopping EU funding would mean about 95% of Vucic's paramilitaries and cronies go broke in weeks, EU just sent 300m to pay them for a while.

Sanctions? That shit would fn criple him 100/100.

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u/SkibidiDopYes 16d ago

Not 95%. China is investin hella more in recent memory, especially in construction. The US wants half of Belgrade for the Trump tower. Sure the EU is still in the game but more politically and energy wise (lithium) than investing and funding anyone.