Intervista / Natasha Kovacev: “In Serbia, i manifestanti si sentono abbandonati da Bruxelles”
INTERVIEW / Nataša Kovačev: “In Serbia, protesters feel abandoned by Brussels”
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Intervista / Natasha Kovacev: “In Serbia, i manifestanti si sentono abbandonati da Bruxelles”
INTERVIEW / Nataša Kovačev: “In Serbia, protesters feel abandoned by Brussels”
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We’re pathetic
Serbia has little to do with Brussels
When it comes to the EU, your expectations can never be too low. In Nuland’s words “Fuck the EU.”
Serbians have to fight for their own freedom. Then show they can run a country for 20 or 30 years with stability and without corruption and crises. That’s when they can expect the EU’s help.
The Serbian protesters expect the EU, a peace project built around trade, to suddenly adopt the characteristics of Reagan’s cold war. They have lied to themselves and blame the EU reality for not adapting to their own fantasies.
Everyone has to win their own country first.
I mean, Serbia’s history with Brussels and EU is quite complicated, so any involvement is tricky.
An interventionist EU sounds like a terrible idea.
EU is not a colonialist project made to influence politics, elections, and protests in nations outside EU. This is the same logical error Serbians and Russians make when they talk about NATO as some imperialist organization. And what happened when Nato did finally try to stop the war and genocide in Serbia? Serbians still hate NATO for it even though the end result war peace and prosperity long-term. Any solution EU would implement would be just as painful. Are Serbians ready to take the pain from the fix? Most Westerners think not. If they were they would love NATO today. EU rather have 33% approval ratings than 10%.
While I sympathize with their cause and predicament, I have to say the expectation anyone will somehow intervene in Serbia on their behalf is naive.
Even at the height of the Euromaidan uprising the EU remained mostly a hopeful spectator.
This isn’t to say Brussels shouldn’t be more unequivocal in its support of these starry-eyed young Serbs, but they shouldn’t attribute too much agency to the bureaucratic apparatus that is the EU.
Brussels is disappointed in Serbia too, if they want to be part of the EU.
>From an EU that likes to portray itself as a champion of law and rights, deluding itself that it can still project some soft power externally, one would expect resolute action against the authoritarian slide of the fragile democracies on its own borders.
Classic, apparently Serbians think the EU has no way to exert power externally, with those in the EU thinking otherwise being branded _delusional_ by Serbians like Kovacev, but then also want blame the EU for not exerting power externally to influence them?
Both can’t be true at the same time.
Stop sending money to Serbia, because it goes to Vucic which he then uses it against protestors. It is that easy.