Amidst all the understandable joy over the change of power in Serbia, journalism must maintain a cool-headed perspective, including on the Serbian student movement and its spectacular success. For Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, I had a closer look at the foreign policy program of the Serbian student movement. It is a disaster. A summary in 8โฃ points.
4โฃThe program says Serbia will โfight for Kosovoโ to remain (as if it still was) part of Serbia, but leaves open how this โfightโ is to be waged. Kosovo is referred to only as the "so-called republic", which is exactly the terminology Vuฤiฤ and his party used: "We will consistently oppose the unilaterally declared independence of the so-called Republic of Kosovo and will not allow its accession to international organisations", the students say. The movement apparently wants to go back even on what has already been achieved. Referring to the previous government and the Serbia-Kosovo agreement on normalising relations between Belgrade and Pristina, concluded in 2023 under EU mediation, the programme states: "We will criminally prosecute all responsible representatives of the regime for any offences connected with the conclusion and implementation of unconstitutional agreements to Serbia's detriment."