“The Guardian”: Arrested Serbian State Problem for Kosovo, Bosnia, EU

The mighty British newspaper “The Guardian” has dedicated an editorial to the post-election situation in Serbia and to the position of president of this country, Aleksandar Vuciq, in relation to neighbours.

In this writing, the British newspaper editorial team says the winning election party is that of President Vuciq, the SNS, which says it is wrongly called the Progressive Party.

However, the writing says that the December 17th elections in Serbia were far from being the cleanest and most honest “in this country's history, as Vucinqi considered. This after O The SEU had another attitude.

The December 17th elections, said a statement by his international observer team, took place in unfair conditions, damaged by “anity in the media, pressure on public sector employees and misuse of public resources. Cases of intimidation and “serious irregularities”, including vote buying and filling ballot boxes, were noted. Other charges have been made that Bosnian Serbs entered on the mass to vote deceitfully in Belgrade”, writes the Guardian”.

Furthermore, the paper says that violation of democratic and rule of law norms in Serbia has gradually accelerated since the SNS took power over a decade ago “a text process of capture of the state, supervised by the president since 2017<18x1>.

“Vukiqi, an autocratic nationalist whose political instincts were forged in the Milosevic era, also uses his power and influence to stir up disagreements in the Western Balkans, where ethnic Serb sensist campaigns are backed by Belgrade. But ambition to draw Serbia into EU orbit and away from Russian influence has eased Western criticism on a compromise scale, especially since the invasion of Ukraine”.

 

 

It also says that the smooth approach of the West to the Vuciqi can be over soon.

Then he mentions warnings of renewed regional conflict, which he says promises to force a tougher line in Brussels and Washington.

In November, Mr. Vuciq predicted ominously that the year 2024 will bring a much more “conflict and turmoil” both to Kosovo and Republika Srpska . . In the latter, Bosnian Serb separatist leader Milorad Dodik has threatened to undermine the 1995 Dayton Peace Accord on behalf of the Serbian national union. In Kosovo ) whose independence Belgrade continues to recognise the serious outbreaks of conflict in the ethnic Serb north have raised fears for a future secession effort”, writes the Guardian” in this editorial.

Hopes that the prospect of EU membership will convince Serbia's government to uphold democratic norms in the country, and refrain from miniming neighbouring states, the Guardian” says they have resulted unfounded.

But the strategic goal of the isolation of Russia ʹ also incomplete means that the West continues to allow Mr. Vuciq too much space to follow its authoritarian, ethno-nationalist agenda”, the editorial team of this British media says.

But, the paper says the EU can pressure Serbia, “if it wants”, as it is one of the top investors in Serbia's emerging economy.

Until now, she has chosen not to do so, through an understandable fear like that of the Joe Biden administration to leave the Balkans even more open to the influence of Moscow and Beijing. But, as it enters even deeper into the courtyard of the EU's eastern home, Mr. Vuciq's treatment as a kind of planner boy who will eventually improve, does not function”, potential “Guardian”