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After Aleksandar Vučić shaped Serbia’s foreign policy for more than a decade with the declared strategic goal of joining the European Union, this goal remains unattainable. Does Serbia truly want to join the EU, and what reforms is it prepared to implement? It has been clear for years—I would say since the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) entered the political scene—that EU membership is not Serbia’s true objective. Its real goal is unchecked power and its unscrupulous abuse f

1. As a sociologist, how do you explain the fact that violence against citizens who protest or express a political stance is increasingly being justified and relativized in society? The justification—or even affirmation—of violence against political dissenters is a consequence of key social processes that undermine social cohesion and alter the normative framework of society. Every society is based on a consensus about acceptable and unacceptable behavior, and in stable liber

How do you, as a professor at a prestigious European university, view the current student protests in Serbia? Are you following what is happening? Yes, I follow everything very closely and from many different angles. These protests are not merely a reaction to a single tragedy; they are an eruption of accumulated helplessness and decades of injustice. This is a rebellion of a generation that has been systematically robbed of its future. These are young people who know that wi