EMI Statement: The situation in Belarus
The European Movement stands with the Belarusian people, who continue to take to the streets asking for free and fair elections and calling for the release of Sergei Tikhanovsky as well as all peaceful protesters, including opposition leaders, students, and human rights activists unlawfully intimidated, arrested, or inhumanely detained during the protests in Belarus. To this end, we strongly condemn the recent [...]
10th Belgrade Security Forum Throughout October – “No Trust – No Peace”
This year’s iteration of the Belgrade Security Forum (BSF) will be held throughout the month of October 2020, as a series of online events. BSF is marking its first decade by saying “No Trust – No Peace”. More than 20 online panels, sessions, discussions and special events will be organized as a part of celebratory 10th Belgrade Security Forum. Participants [...]
Civil society and media will not give up the fight for a democratic and free Serbia
Civil society and media will not give up the fight for a democratic and free Serbia The media and civil society organizations demand from the Ministry of Finance and the Administration for the Prevention of Money Laundering to immediately present the grounds for suspicion due to which they ordered the extraordinary collection of information about organizations, media, and individuals from [...]
Statement on the Acceptance of the New EU Enlargement Methodology by Serbia
The European Movement in Serbia welcomes the news that Serbia has officially accepted the new EU Enlargement methodology, adopted in March 2020. If there is political will, the implementation of the new methodology can give the necessary political impetus to the enlargement process, both in the EU and in Serbia. As the public was previously informed that the Ministry of European [...]
Worrisome Direction Serbia is Heading
[Photo: Sanja Knežević] The European Movement in Serbia expresses deep concerns over the aggravated situation and violent unrests in Serbia in the past two days. The politicized management of the pandemic in recent months, unanswered suspicions of manipulation of data on the number of patients and deaths caused by COVID-19, as well as shifting the blame to citizens for the crisis, [...]
CSOs: Decrease Tensions between Serbia and Montenegro
Candidate countries for membership in the European Union should resolve their disputes in the spirit of regional cooperation, civil society organizations of Serbia and Montenegro have said, adding that the tensions between the two countries need to be decreased at once. As they point out, at a time when leading candidates for EU membership are expected to show stronger political leadership [...]
