New issue of Vremena

09.July 2026 VR

"Poorer voters are cheaper to maintain"

In Serbia, a "vicious circle between poverty and bad policies" is being created, says economist Vladimir Vučković for the new issue of "Vremena".

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New issue of Vremena

09.July 2026 VK

A country for cokezes, not for Nemanja Vidić

How did Kokeza plan to use football hooligans and the Italian mafia to physically harm one of the most successful domestic football players in the 21st century because he was afraid that his criticism could threaten his position in the federation? That's the theme of the new "Time"

Football, crime, politics and the Sky app

08.July 2026 Vojkan Kostić

Why does Nemanja Vidić have no one to protect him?

At a moment when the attention of the entire world public is focused on the football fields of America, Mexico and Canada, and when the main question is whether Lionel Messi will win the world championship again with Argentina or whether the French will take revenge on them for the defeat in the final in 2022, the Serbian public was shaken by the information that the former president of the Football Association of Serbia (FSS) Slavisa Kokeza planned to physically harm one of the most successful domestic teams with the help of football hooligans and the Italian mafia footballer in the 21st century because he was afraid that his criticism could threaten his position in the association

Mafia and the state

08.July 2026 Vukašin Obradović

Regime protectors of partners from the Sky application

Belgrade lawyer Ivan Ninić tells "Vreme" that in Serbia the use of Sky communication is strictly controlled and surgically limited exclusively to the level of perpetrators on the ground, while in Montenegro it has become a tool for dismantling the criminalized state apparatus. He believes that the reasons for this selective application are legal and political in nature, because in Serbia Aleksandar Vučić still controls the security sector and decides what will be the subject of prosecutorial proceedings.

Cancer in Serbia

08.July 2026 Isidora Ceric

Cancer patients are not statistics

In Serbia, tens of thousands of people fall ill from malignant diseases every year. Behind every statistic are people who cannot be reduced to just a number. "Vreme" investigates what the path from diagnosis to treatment looks like - from the capacity of the health system and the availability of therapies, to the daily life of patients and the exceptional importance of psycho-oncology support

Serbia and the European Union

08.July 2026 Bosko Jaksic

Presentation of Potemkin's Serbia

The Ambassador of Ireland said in Belgrade that, "if we ask", Serbia will open Cluster 3. The Netherlands also asked, whose opposition mainly relates to the state of the rule of law. The "Balance Clause" is clear - if there is no progress in fundamental areas of law, there is no progress in the negotiations as a whole. From that reform package, Vučić's government is fleeing like the devil from the cross, but it does not give up selling the fog, even though a lot has changed since Croatia was hailed as the last member of the Union in 2013

Interview: Vladimir Vučković, economist, former member of the Fiscal Council, lecturer at the Mokrogora Business School

08.July 2026 Viktor Radonjic

Serbia as a platform for other people's strategies

Empirical research shows a strong connection between clientelistic regimes and poverty. When voters are vulnerable, a small, immediate, and selective benefit—a job, a one-off, a subsidy, a gift, local government attention—may have greater political value than the abstract benefit of long-term growth, institutions, or public goods. Poorer voters are cheaper to maintain and easier to mobilize. Thus, a vicious circle is created between poverty and bad policies

Presidential candidates

08.July 2026 Nedim Sejdinovic

Who has the best chance of defeating the government's candidate

It can already be seen that there will be more anti-Vučić columns in the parliamentary elections, which are the result of vanity and petty interests and not a serious political strategy. It is a good thing, however, that most of the opposition factors have announced that they will support the presidential candidate proposed by the student list, so this can be a place for some sort of synergy. Of course, we can hope that the presidential candidate of the student list will be someone who can be acceptable to the widest electorate. The good news is that no irreparable mistakes have been made so far

Attachments for biography

08.July 2026 Ivan Milenkovic

What would Machiavelli say?

Why is Vučić a Machiavellian, and Machiavelli is not? In what way did Machiavelli descend into the heart of darkness? Which is why corruption is a cancer of society, and Vučić is the main oncologist who works diligently on the unhindered spread of cancer cells. In other words, can Serbia, according to Machiavelli's analysis, ever recover from Vučić? This is why a good conflict is healing for society, and why public branding of one person leads to ruin

Interview: Gert Rohrborn, director of the office of the "Heinrich Bell" Foundation

08.July 2026 Filip Mirilović

Our hand remains extended.

"Until now, it has not happened that as many as five EU member states block a candidate country from opening Cluster 3. This is a consequence of both Serbia's attitude towards Russia, as well as the absence of the rule of law and a high level of corruption. Since the EU enlargement process was restarted, Serbia has only taken significant steps backwards"

Personal attitude

08.July 2026 Aleksandar Macura

No free public transport available

We know how many kilometers of roads have been built. We know how many cars are registered. We know how many buses there are. What we know much less about is whether the citizens of Serbia really live better because of this

Climate change and Serbia

02.July 2026 Marija Vidic

Global scenario, local hell

We can push the endless and depressing list of consequences of global warming in Serbia under the carpet in the colder half of the year, but already in June, when the feeling that something is seriously wrong returns, it's time to face the facts and ask how bad the situation is, are we doing anything to reduce the damage and how long can we continue like this

Phenomenon: Miloš Medenica Medeni

02.July 2026 Jovana Gligorijevic

How an underground influencer gained trust

Medenica does not address the authorities of Montenegro and Serbia, which are the main target of his content, as if he knows something they don't, but as if he knows what they want to hide. How is it possible that in Serbia in 2026, part of the public considers a fugitive convicted in the first instance to be a more reliable source of information than any institution, including the president of the state

Montenegro

02.July 2026 Vukašin Obradović

His mother's son

Biljana Nikolić, "Vijesti" journalist, tells "Vreme" that it is clear that Miloš Medenica does not act independently. "Those structures obviously have an interest, and they feed it with intelligence data. The 'Honey' phenomenon becomes a kind of guerilla format, in which information is disseminated based on which it can be assumed who could benefit, as well as what are the motives for such actions."

Interview: Aleksandar Ivković, political scientist

02.July 2026 Nedim Sejdinovic

This government does not have a bright future no matter how the elections end

All the research we have seen so far indicates that for the first time there is a possibility that the ruling coalition will not win a majority in the parliament, and the decision will probably be made in the coming months, depending on the constant measurement of the ratings and the positioning of the opposing party.

Political life and death

02.July 2026 Jelena Jorgacevic

All together, each for himself and risks

The ruling Serbian Progressive Party is losing voter support, but it is still not known when, despite numerous announcements by the president, the elections will be called, who will be on the student list, and what might be the role of the opposition parties that will (not) support the student list? There are many questions: can the student strategy be called a catch-all? How then, in its essence, does it differ from the catch-all approach of SNS? What are the pros and cons of it? How necessary is one front in the circumstances of the fight against a regime like this one? And if he is not there, then what

Personal attitude

02.July 2026 Nikola Jovanovic

What is the White Paper and what is it for?

Our goal is the eradication of corruption and zero tolerance for it. That is why we propose the formation of a special prosecutor's office for high corruption, the existence of the prosecuting police, new competences for the State Audit Institution, the introduction of the new criminal offense "unjustified enrichment" and other measures that will give results already in the first months.

Kosovo

02.July 2026 Milica Srejić

Guardians of (dis)order

During the Vidovdan celebration in Gazimestan, 37 citizens were arrested, and misdemeanor proceedings were initiated against 36 of them. The day after the arrest, testimonies about the physical abuse of those arrested appeared. What happened at Gazimestan? Who kept order and peace at that meeting and in what way? What is the fate of Serbs in Kosovo?

This situation

25.June 2026 Philip Schwarm

Stalin from Andrić's wreath

Why did everyone who engaged in the use of an unspecified type of acoustic weapon at the student protest on March 15 become an enemy of the state, a terrorist and the assassin of Vučić? Why would Beria envy Bija for this operation? How the regime in Belgrade in 2026 is trying to create an atmosphere similar to that of Moscow in 1937

Attacks on journalists

25.June 2026 Jovana Gligorijevic

Do not call 192

Data from the Supreme Public Prosecutor's Office show that in recent years, the number of requests that prosecutors make to the police in order to collect the necessary information has been increasing, but that the answers to these requests are increasingly absent. It is the first and one of the most important actions in the pre-investigation procedure, without which the prosecution cannot continue the investigation in many cases.

Sound cannon simulation and other nonsense

25.June 2026 Nedim Sejdinovic

Vučić's weapon for mass intimidation and overthrowing the constitutional order

Why were verbal delinquents - analysts, experts and journalists - targeted by the regime, in addition to students? How did the Higher Public Prosecutor's Office in its announcement make the verdict that the students shot themselves with a sound cannon? And how did Vučić claim that Serbia doesn't have sound cannons at all, and it turned out that it does have them, just as he claimed immediately after the fall of the Novi Sad canopy that "it was the only one that wasn't renovated", and with the speed of light on social networks it was determined that this was not true? How was the media bomb activated in the regime media with pre-prepared lists of people who participated in the "conspiracy" and who should be killed? And is it about an attempt to ban the student movement?

TV Maniac, on/off

25.June 2026 Dragan Ilic

ZZ Top

Since the prosecutor in Serbia cannot charge a person who drives a car into citizens, viewers of RTS can see how that legal institution is made meaningless in front of the cameras.

SNS rally in Belgrade

25.June 2026 Mirjana Nikolić

Variations on the same theme

Serbia will preserve the peace, local officials must talk to the people or they will be replaced, the economy is growing fast, they want to overthrow us because Serbia is moving forward, there is no more fear of "blockades", the president is a victim, there will be higher salaries and pensions. Based on experience, this is probably how Vučić's messages will look at the upcoming rally

Croatia

25.June 2026 Jaroslav Pecnik

Criminal and punishment

After almost two decades of trials, the judiciary made a final decision in one of the most significant war crimes trials in Croatia. How did the case of Branimir Glavaš shape Croatian politics and the judiciary?

Interview: Radovan Lazić, prosecutor

17.June 2026 Nedim Sejdinovic

How the case of Veselin Milić was contaminated

From the statement of the prosecution, one gets the impression that the role of the former head of the Belgrade police in the whole event is continuously diminished. It is difficult to determine whether this is really the result of the evidentiary actions carried out so far and new knowledge gathered during the investigation, or whether it is a matter of relativizing his role for some other reason. Nevertheless, bearing in mind all the strange and unusual moves of the High Public Prosecutor's Office in Belgrade, it is quite justified to suspect that it is about relativizing responsibility and that someone from a very high position is trying to protect Milić