The prevailing impression is that the majority of Serbia’s political leadership lacks confidence in the EU enlargement process and keeps its options open for closer alignment with Russia and China. Additionally, Serbia maintains strong political and economic ties based on Yugoslavia’s legacy with the Non-Aligned Movement, a policy that is ...

2023年1月19日 · Serbia is pursuing EU membership yet continues to cultivate ties with Russia. To secure President Vucic’s cooperation and win over the disgruntled Serbian public, the union must use its leverage in the region. This publication is part of Europe’s East, a Carnegie Europe project on European policy toward Eastern Europe and Russia.

4 天之前 · Nowhere is this clearer than in Kosovo, whose EU path remains hostage to the stalled Belgrade-Pristina dialogue. Despite Kosovo’s substantial democratization efforts, the EU continues to demand unilateral concessions, even in the wake of the Banjska attack in 2023, when Serbia-backed paramilitaries killed a Kosovar police officer and wounded two others.

2024年2月27日 · Serbia is applying to join the EU, but is also moving closer to Russia politically. Europe should not ignore the importance of Serbia as a Russian ally.

2023年8月7日 · In 2022, with Russian aggression against Ukraine, Serbia drew international scrutiny for not supporting EU sanctions against Russia and its foreign policy regarding the Russia-Ukraine War. Rather than being squeezed between East and West, Serbia under Aleksandar Vučić pursues ambiguity to secure power domestically and maximize maneuvering ...

2023年11月21日 · Serbia’s situation is perhaps the most precarious, as President Aleksandar Vucic weighs EU efforts to isolate Moscow against his country’s long-standing ties to Russia, especially its...

2024年10月25日 · Serbia has close ties to Russia and has refused to join international sanctions on Moscow over its invasion of Ukraine. In a telephone conversation Sunday with Russian President Vladimir Putin, populist Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said EU candidate Serbia would maintain its stance on sanctions, notwithstanding EU and other Western pressure.

2024年9月9日 · While refusing to sign up to Western sanctions on Russia, Serbia has also provided shells to Ukraine via third parties worth 800 million euros ($888 million) since 2022, or one-third of the ...

2024年7月19日 · Serbia – along with 5 other Western Balkans countries – was identified as a potential candidate for EU membership during the Thessaloniki European Council summit in 2003. In 2008, a European partnership for Serbia was adopted, setting out priorities for the country's membership application, and in 2009 Serbia formally applied. In March 2012 ...

2024年11月25日 · By expanding Mouffe’s framework into the diplomatic realm, this article aims to understand Serbia’s foreign policy towards the EU and Russia in the context of the Russia-Ukraine War. More specifically, the article examines how Serbia manages its delicate diplomatic balance during moments of crisis.