Aleksandar Vučić will miss this week’s BRICS summit to host Donald Tusk and Ursula von der Leyen in Belgrade, where the Polish Prime Minister will discuss EU membership prospects ahead of Warsaw’s EU Council Presidency in January. What are Serbia’s allegiances, and can the EU and its members encourage Belgrade to move closer to Europe?
Staś Kaleta met with Srðan Cvijić, President of the International Advisory Committee of the Belgrade Centre for Security Policy and a former high-ranking Serbian diplomat, at our Europe Future Forum in mid-September. This text outlines key takeaways from their discussion, but find the full podcast below:
The two faces of the Vučić regime
The Western Balkans are often seen as occupying a geopolitical crossroads between the EU and Russia, as well as the US and China. Nowhere is this ambivalent position more apparent than in Serbia.
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