{"id":248311,"date":"2025-03-21T03:07:47","date_gmt":"2025-03-21T03:07:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/politics\/rewrite-this-title-in-arabic-student-protests-in-serbia-a-challenging-situation-for-the-european-union\/"},"modified":"2025-03-21T03:07:48","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T03:07:48","slug":"rewrite-this-title-in-arabic-student-protests-in-serbia-a-challenging-situation-for-the-european-union","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/politics\/rewrite-this-title-in-arabic-student-protests-in-serbia-a-challenging-situation-for-the-european-union\/","title":{"rendered":"rewrite this title in Arabic Student Protests in Serbia: A challenging situation for the European Union"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Summarize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs in Arabic<br \/>\n        Serbia remains immersed in a deep political crisis before the perplexed gaze of the EU caught in the crossfire between the strategic need to keep supporting a candidate country for EU membership, and the realisation that many principles of law here are still very far from European standards.<br \/>\n    ADVERTISEMENTProtests in Serbia started when 15 people died after the collapse of a shelter at a railway station in the city of Novi Sad. Protesters accuse authorities of corruption and authoritarianism. Despite de resignation of prime minister Milo\u0161 Vu\u010devi\u0107,\u00a0the movement, led by students, has spread to more than 200 towns.Serbia\u00b4s President Aleksandar Vu\u010di\u0107\u00a0has accused students of leading an \u201cattempted revolution\u201d. He claims that \u201cforeign powers\u201d want to overthrow him and destabilise Serbia. The EU has so far remained discreet.The European Commission has stated it is\u00a0 \u201cbacking the rule of law and freedom of assembly.\u201dSerbia has been a candidate country for EU membership since 2012. Accession negotiations started in 2014. The EU is Serbia\u00b4s largest trade partner, largest investor and largest provider of financial assistance. Europe has set aside another \u20ac1.586 billion in non-repayable grants and favourable loans for when Serbia carries out more reforms in business, environmental and digital sectors, as well as in the rule of law.\u00a0The youth are demanding less corruption and more democracy, transparency, justice, fraternity and accountability. They distrust the country\u00b4s political institutions.\u201cWhen it comes to the elections, a lot of people don&#8217;t even trust those anymore. I just really hope that something will be changed about it soon, because if it&#8217;s not, we&#8217;ll just sink deeper and deeper and further away from democracy itself.\u201d, says Lena, 20-year-old student in Electrical Engineering.She attended a huge protest in Ni\u0161, Serbia\u00b4s third largest city with her friends Sta\u0161a and Dimitrije. \u201cNot many people look at a country as something that we need to build together, as something that we all need to invest in, and actually care about. (For many people) it&#8217;s just something that they need to take money away from. I think that what we&#8217;re doing right here is morally the right thing to do at the moment.\u201dThe students are also demanding independent judiciary and equal rights. They have not aligned with any political party or ideology. They refuse to give their family names as their personal situation is unimportant.\u00a0\u201cI like to live by my values of honesty and accountability. But in order for my actions to be worthy and to in order for them to have an effect, I think as a collective, we should all abide by them\u201d, says Sta\u0161a, also a student in Electrical Engineering. \u201cAnd those leading the country and our people should be the ones showing us the way. We want our knowledge to count for something. And we want our hard work to be appreciated. We want to be judged not by our political views, but by what we are and what we have done\u201dWhile Serbian youth have mobilised for justice and anti-corruption demands, the EU is not a concrete reality for many because of the delayed accession process.Some also feel the EU response to their perception of democratic erosion has been weak, and this is fueling an already latent euroscepticism in younger generations, claims Dragana Djurica, expert in Serbia-EU relationships and Secretary General at European Movement Serbia (EminS).\u00a0\u201cThe generation aged between 45 and 60 are in majority pro EU integration whereas the younger generation shows disregard, disbelief and no interest in becoming members of the EU\u201d, Ms. Djurica says. \u201c The generation between 45 and 60 was the same age as the youth today, only during the 90s, and they remember very well the times of isolation, the times of sanctions, the times of conflicts in the region. And they do not want to see it happening now.\u201d\u00a0Further EU engagements in education, cultural exchanges and funding are key to attract young Serbians tired of the long accession process, now also overshadowed by misinformation campaigns, she claims. \u201cThere is a combination of these issues, which is making citizens not aware about what the EU stands for, what the EU brings and what are the obligations of Serbia in this context of European integration process\u201d, says Ms Djurica. \u201cSo we hope that the EU is going to take a more firm stand in defending the fundamental values that it represents, and to communicate them properly to the citizens so that they wouldn&#8217;t lose this generation\u201d.Students have vowed to continue the mobilisation until the country adopts a system \u201cthat values knowledge and work, not obedience and silence\u201d.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summarize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs in Arabic Serbia remains immersed in a deep political crisis before the perplexed gaze of the EU caught in the crossfire between the strategic need to keep supporting a candidate country for EU membership, and the realisation that many principles of law here are still very<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":248312,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-248311","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-politics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248311"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":248313,"href":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248311\/revisions\/248313"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}