Beta Briefing

18/09/2026

The candidate for U.S. Ambassador to Belgrade, Michael Young, has said that if the Senate greenlights his appointment, he will work on reducing Russia's and China's influence in Serbia and on deepening cooperation in the area of defense and security.

Candidate

18/09/2026

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic is on Sept. 18 taking part in a meeting of the Ukrainian Carpathian Integration Initiative, at the invitation of his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky.

17/09/2026

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic accused the students’ movement on Sept. 17 of pressuring all political parties into not running in the Oct. 25 elections.

17/09/2026

Former NATO commander for Europe Wesley Clark said on Sept. 17 that he is "shocked" by the Hague court's sentencing of four high ranking Kosovo Liberation Army officers to steep prison terms.

Wesley

17/09/2026

The upcoming election campaign will be worse than any in the past when it comes to the overall conditions and media pluralism, New Democratic Party of Serbia head Milos Jovanovic opined on Sept. 17.

17/09/2026

On Sept. 17, university students from the anti-regime Students in Blockade movement commenced a ten-day tour of the country – on bicycles. As part of the Student Ticket’s campaign for the upcoming Oct. 25 snap parliamentary elections, two groups of cyclists will spend days visiting cities, towns and villages from Subotica to Vranje.

Blockading

16/09/2026

The New York-based international association Scholars at Risk (SAR), in its report about the state of academic freedom on Sept. 16, placed Serbia among the countries where the authorities have violently stifled the students’ protests and resorted to measures that undermined the autonomy of the university, which included denying funding and termination of employment of professors who supported the students’ protests.

SAR

16/09/2026

European Mobility Week in Belgrade opened on Sept. 16 under the slogan "Mobility for All" with a symbolic bicycle ride from Europe House to the Drinka Pavlovic Elementary School.

European

16/09/2026

The recently removed vice-president of the ruling Socialist Party of Serbia, Branko Ruzic, has left open the possibility of running in the upcoming parliamentary elections but underscored he would never do so merely to be included in a ticket.

Expelled

16/09/2026

The Serbian Center (SRCE) party will not withdraw from the upcoming snap parliamentary elections, keeping to its earlier announced decision to run in a coalition titled ‘European Serbia’ along with the Freedom and Justice Party and the Solidarity Citizens’ Movement, stated SRCE leader Zdravko Ponos.

SRCE