Strahinja Subotic 🇷🇸 🇪🇺

Programme Manager and Senior Researcher at @CEPBelgrade. @CEUhungary Alumni. PhD candidate.
Commenting regularly on EU affairs and Western Balkans.

[Strahinja Subotic 🇷🇸 🇪🇺 @mr_Subotic]

❗️❗️ Moj PRVI ROMAN "Očevidac" je objavljen ❗️❗️
Ekskluzivna prodaja na sajtu Mali Nemo - izdavačka kuća. Roman takođe možete pronaći i u knjižari Zepter u Knez Mihajlovoj, kao i u Kolarcu. 📖

My FIRST NOVEL, "The Eyewitness", is finally out!

https://t.co/K2htZ0v3Ue

[Wolfman's Got Nards @WolfmansGotNard]

Obsession has now officially entered into the @IMDb Top 250 Movies of All Time list. It comes in at #249.

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

Steven Spielberg says it’s been fantastic to see the success of ‘OBSESSION’ and ‘BACKROOMS’.

“I think it’s great that they had basically very little money, especially ‘Obsession’ that had under $1M and ‘Backrooms’ had maybe $10M or $9M. They're doing so well and I applaud them

I haven't seen ‘Backrooms’, I’m going to see it when all this is over but I have seen ‘Obsession’ and I loved it.”

[Немања @NRad17]

Кад имаш истетоворан Острог ал те депортују из Црне Горе:

[Nacionalni konvent o Evropskoj uniji 🇷🇸 🇪🇺 @NKEUSrbija]

Međusektorska radna grupa Nacionalnog konventa o Evropskoj uniji za praćenje sprovođenja Reformske agende Republike Srbije, objavila je Prvi nezavisni izveštaj o sprovođenju Reformske agende Republike Srbije.

Ključni nalazi:

Od 34 reformska koraka čiji rokovi za realizaciju su dospeli do 31.12.2025. godine, a koje je Međusektorska radna grupa nezavisno ocenila, samo 6 je ostvareno zaključno sa 32.03.2026. godine, dok preostalih 28 nisu ostvareni. To je stopa ispunjenosti od 18%.

Ostvareni koraci se gotovo u celosti odnose na tehničku transpoziciju propisa ili kvantitativne pokazatelje, ali nijedan ne odražava suštinski reformski pomak u oblastima vladavine prava, medija ili pravosuđa.

Reformska agenda je uslovna — da bi Srbija dobijala sredstva iz Instrumenta za reforme i rast (ukupno 1,586 milijardi evra), mora da ispunjava preduslove i opšte uslove. MRG nalazi da preduslov o demokratskim mehanizmima i vladavini prava nije ispunjen. To je pogoršanje u odnosu na početnu ocenu Evropske komisije iz sledećih razloga:

- Eskalacija odgovora države na protestni pokret nakon tragedije na železničkoj stanici u Novom Sadu, o čemu postoje dokumentovani obrasci prekomerne upotrebe policijske sile i zlostavljanja pritvorenih studenata i građana

- Organizovano nasilje i sistematske nepravilnosti na lokalnim izborima 29. marta 2026.

- Usvajanje izmena pravosudnog zakonodavstva u januaru 2026. kojima je smanjena nezavisnost specijalizovanih tužilačkih organa.

- Kontinuirano pogoršanje slobode medija i bezbednosti novinara.

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[European Western Balkans 🇪🇺 @EWB_eu]

[OPINION] "The Model’s greatest legacy is that it has succeeded in completely rehauling the enlargement conversation: no one now defends the old binary enlargement model", writes @mr_Subotic.

https://t.co/MAYOvalS3r

[CEP Belgrade @CEPBelgrade]

📣Join us on June 1st at Europe House in Belgrade for the panel discussion “Serbia and the European Union: Geopolitics and EU Values – in Tension or in Tandem?” organized by European Policy Centre with the support of Irish Foreign Ministry (@dfatirl)

The event will present findings from our research on Serbian citizens’ views of the EU in a time of growing geopolitical uncertainty, based on a representative survey and citizen focus groups.

📍 Europe House, Zmaj Jovina 8, Belgrade
🕙 10:00–11:30
📅 1 June
🔗 Livestream link: https://t.co/Lmyor5Yxtd

[Film Updates @FilmUpdates]

‘OBSESSION’ has grossed around $148M worldwide.

Now eyeing a $280-330M finish on a $750k budget.

One of the most profitable movies of all time.

[Strahinja Subotic 🇷🇸 🇪🇺 @mr_Subotic]

@JenniferMerode Very insightful! On behalf of @CEPBelgrade, a think tank that first proposed the ideas you addressed, I invite you to check our work on the matter:
1. Safeguards: https://t.co/xBx0JHKsgO
2. Vetoes: https://t.co/AmDTmjkUFA
3. Staged Accession Model: https://t.co/KlSVTzO0Wc

[Alexander Clarkson  @APHClarkson]

The political difference EU membership makes in 2026 is the difference between Hungary and Turkey

[Mirko Topalovic official @mirkotopalovic7]

Verovatno najbolji snimak ikada
gledaj do kraja

[Petar | 🇷🇸 @escpetar]

Jednoooom u godini 😂

[Lesia Dubenko 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇮🇱 @LesiaLVD]

The most popular joke in 🇭🇺A man comes to the Prime Minister’s office, knocks, walks up to security and says:
— Good afternoon! I’d like to speak with Viktor Orbán.
— He doesn’t work here anymore.
— I see…,” the man says as he leaves, but a minute later he comes back.

— Good afternoon! I’d like to speak with Viktor Orbán.
— Sir, I already told you! He doesn’t work here anymore!
— I understand…,” the man says. “It’s just so nice to hear it.”

[VIKARE @vikare06]

If only Hollywood wasn't terrified of real poster artists

[Kat🇻🇪🇦🇷🇺🇦🇸🇾🇬🇪🇵🇸🇨🇺🇲🇲🇮🇷🇸🇩🇹🇼 @Katauroraaa]

Hungary is having the ending of a 2000s family movie.

[NXT EU @NXT4EU]

For the first time in 12 years, the EU flag is back at the Hungarian parliament.

Thank you @magyarpeterMP ! 🇪🇺

[Szabolcs Panyi @panyiszabolcs]

💥"Yesterday you could feel a huge relief among leaders. Because it was for the first time in years that there were no Russians in the room, if you know what I'm talking about. But..."

And then Robert Fico walks in while Donald Tusk winks at the reporters. Pure perfection.

[Javière Chevalier 🇺🇦 🇲🇲 🇸🇩 🇬🇪 @JaviereChevali1]

Zelensky : "My congratulations to Montenegro."

...

Zelensky : "F*CK!"

[Adi Ćerimagić @adicerimagic]

“I proposed that we now begin a process within the EU involving a strategy for bringing Ukraine closer to the EU,” German chancellor Friedrich Merz stated today after meeting other EU heads of state and government. Explaining that while “an immediate accession of Ukraine to the EU is, of course, not possible,” the goal remains “full membership.”

Merz said there is “a need for intermediate steps to get there.”

This would include:

First: “closer integration into the European institutions, for example through participation in European councils, in the European Parliament, or in the Commission without voting rights”

Second: “the gradual integration of Ukraine into policy areas depending on the progress of reforms”

The aim would be to “accelerate the accession negotiations as a bridge towards later full membership.”

Merz said he had discussed this several times over the past few days with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and that he “received a great deal of support for my proposals from my colleagues in the European Council.”

He added that the discussion also concerned “the Western Balkan states, which have likewise been waiting for a clear signal for a long time, indeed even longer, regarding what we can offer them with respect to membership in the EU.” He concluded that “this process, too, should now be accelerated.”

[Magyar Péter (Ne féljetek) @magyarpeterMP]

At the inaugural session of the National Assembly, the European Union flag will also be returned to the facade of Parliament, alongside the Hungarian and Székely flags.

[Strahinja Subotic 🇷🇸 🇪🇺 @mr_Subotic]

Completely agree! On safeguards, @MartaKosEU, I hope you find the following paper useful: https://t.co/yzmmGCPcKI

[Marta Kos @MartaKosEU]

Montenegro’s place inside the EU is now taking shape.

Today, Member States decided to start drafting Montenegro’s EU Accession Treaty.

This is a major step on the path to EU membership, a clear recognition of Montenegro’s progress, and an encouragement to accelerate reforms.

It also offers a chance to draw lessons from past enlargements and include new and stronger safeguards in future accession treaties to prevent backsliding on the rule of law and fundamental values.