History teaches us
Fleeed from the East, arrived in the East
Russia's influence on Serbia's politics from Karađorđe to now, or: how we died so that Russia would achieve its zone of interest in Europe and how we mined our own path to Europe
Serbian regime and geopolitical winds
Where are you going, Alexander?
Is Serbia heading towards the West or the East these weeks? What does the regime want, and what is happening to it? How does Brussels view Belgrade? What does Marta Kos' praise for the new election laws mean? Is it an announcement of the unfreezing of funds or is it unrelated? If not, will Beijing step in with another, and another loan? What does the Mertz initiative bring to Serbia, and what does the new document of the State Department? Is it even possible to balance between Beijing and Washington?
New American strategy
Report: USA gives up on building states in the Balkans, focusing on stability and partnership
The State Department document shows that Washington no longer wants long-term projects of political reshaping of the Western Balkans, but stability that corresponds to American security and economic interests. The focus is on trade, energy, NATO cooperation and the fight against transnational crime
The government's turn towards the European Union
Socks, insults and European billions: Why progressives are suddenly falling in love with the EU
How the SNS representatives went from disparaging the European Union and European delegations to messages about strategic commitment to European integration in a few months
The World and Serbia
Committee for (un)peace
How Serbia did well solely thanks to Donald Trump's personal animosity towards Aleksandar Vučić
Interview: Dimitrije Milić, foreign policy analyst
An age of force and uncertainty
Due to the traumas in our society from the 1990s, there is a strong sentiment that the revision of the world order is beneficial for Serbia, because its policy will be less monitored by external actors to limit it. However, in that calculation, it is often forgotten that the collapse of such an order would certainly be disastrous for less developed countries, such as Serbia.
From the new issue
Sour grapes: Why some Serbs are looking forward to Trump's campaigns
Many in Serbia are looking forward to the collapse of the world order, foreign policy analyst Dimitrije Milić told Vreme. They rejoice, he adds, either out of malice or out of a mistaken belief that the destruction of order suits Serbia
Foreign policy of Serbia in 2025.
Kneeling with bitten legs
In the changed world context, Serbia without a strategic commitment and a real strategy in foreign relations looks like a country that is trying to balance by promising something to someone on one side, and buying something from someone on the other side. Its leader simultaneously says how proud we are, how small and miserable we are, how libertarian we are, but how we don't ask about anything. What awaits us next year
Trump's security strategy
Trump's security strategy: Strengthening right-wing populist forces in Europe
In the new National Security Strategy, US President Donald Trump sets as one of his priorities the strengthening of right-wing populist forces in Europe and the transformation of the European Union into a "group of sovereign countries".
Overview of the week
On the stage of the Republic of Serbia
Vučić just got hold of the Marxist thesis about the death of the state. In his version, the Republic of Serbia will not die a natural death. On the contrary - he will beat her personally with a rusty shovel
Serbia and the world
All brother to brother
As international relations become more complicated and conflicts intensify, it becomes increasingly clear that Aleksandar Vučić's ten-year claims that Serbia has brotherly relations with certain countries are nothing more than empty talk.
With 35 years of "Time": The world, from 1990 to today
The Age of Dying Illusions
If it was meant to be a guide for the future, the new dawn of the nineties did not live up to Europe's expectations. Without energy resources and doomed to be determined by the geopolitical rivalry between America and China, Europe has long nurtured the illusion from that time that it would become a global factor. Today, the continent lags behind in terms of technology and innovation. To the world, Fukoyama's end of history proved to be a false prophecy. Today, the famous Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz, inspired by Trump's politics, speaks about the beginning of the era of the end of progress
New issue of Vremena
Vrdalama Vučić: Cech pays Serbia
The "politics of revenge" that Aleksandar Vučić has drawn Serbia into is hitting all sides, writes "Vreme" in its new issue. The president of the country did not criticize Putin, Trump, or Mertz or Erdogan very well
How Vučić's policy of tyranny broke down I: Serbia-USA
Five signs of Trump's unrequited love
Despite the two meetings of the highest Serbian officials with the US Secretary of State Mark Rubio - Minister of Foreign Affairs Marko Đurić at the State Department at the beginning of August, and then President Vučić during the annual session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York - and the announcement of the launch of a strategic dialogue between the two countries by the end of the year, everything is somehow, what the people would say, "I'm coming", with burning fires that need to be extinguished, such as huge tariffs on our goods or the entry into force of sanctions NIS
How Vučić's policy of tyranny broke II: Serbia and Germany
The Autumn of a Stabilocrat
Chancellor Friedrich Mertz is not particularly interested in the Balkans - just not to shoot. That's why Vučić can figure as a "stability factor" for some time to come, although the honey days when he was Angela Merkel's best student have passed.
Serbia's foreign policy
Does the Brussels sprouts sway?
The opposition and the public in favor of it expect greater involvement of Europeans when it comes to the Serbian political space, the government uses such announcements to argue the thesis of a colored revolution, but would gladly host anyone from that side, especially if they give some money. It seems that both sides are exaggerating: neither Europe will come to organize elections for us, nor will any money arrive with which the government will patch the budget holes caused by extraordinary corruption costs.
Why BRICS is not an alternative to the EU
Delusions, comparisons and geopolitical romance
The geopolitical rhetoric about the "Eastern road" is getting louder and potentially more dangerous. BRICS is promoted in Serbia as a kind of alternative to the European Union, but without a clear explanation of what it actually entails and whether it offers anything concrete at all. Unlike the EU, BRICS is neither an alliance nor a system. It is a club for declarative ranking, not for substantive development
EU
Kaja Kalas on detained activists: EU expects respect for human rights
High Representative of the EU for Foreign and Security Policy Kaja Callas spoke with Serbian authorities and detained activists
Interview: Boško Jakšić
Vučić plays with the patience of the greats
"Nobody trusts Vučić, he has no sincere ally no matter how much he hugs and rubs shoulders with world leaders. He was broken into a long time ago, but he went unpunished, so he's plotting," foreign policy commentator Boško Jakšić told "Vreme". We talked about bad times in the world and how Serbia coped with them
Serbian-Russian relations
Servant of two masters
Whatever was the essential purpose of Vulin's visit to Moscow, according to Vučić, it did not end the way he wanted. Vulin's task was probably to demonstrate the further closeness of Serbia and Russia with this visit. Instead, as a result of the meeting between Vulin and the Russian president, Vucic received a slap from Putin, who invited him to attend the BRICS summit in Kazan
Foreign policy
Vučić between a rock and a hard place: After the meeting with the CIA director, the president met with the Russian ambassador
The President of Serbia met with the Russian Ambassador Aleksandar Bochan-Kharchenko and shared with him his concern about the situation in Kosovo. Yesterday at this time, the head of the CIA arrived in Belgrade. The President's tightrope walk between East and West continues, and political scientist Cvijetin Milivojević talks about what this means for Serbia's foreign policy discourse.
International relations
Vučić's two or three chairs: There is no reason for him to change his foreign policy
Aleksandar Vučić while at the same time preserving friendship with Russia and flirting with the European Union, writes the Catholic News Agency. Observers assess the foreign policy of President Aleksandar Vučić as a political odyssey
Serbian-American relations
What are the goals of the White House, and what of Andrić's wreath
The administration of US President Joseph Biden began in 2021 with the sanctioning of individuals and entities suspected of corruption and organized crime in the Balkans. The sanctioning of the first man of the Security and Information Agency is an even stronger message, because it is clear that this instrument is rarely used. With this, the Americans entered the domain of what bothers the authorities in Serbia the most - criticism of the internal situation, and the unequivocal expression of their attitude towards individuals in power in connection with alleged corrupt arrangements and ties with Russia
Serbia and 500 days of war in Ukraine
Chicken and match selection
This text deals with a serious failure in the foreign policy of our country. The failure consists in failing to impose sanctions on Russia, which made Serbia a negative exception in relation to the democratic world, a part of which - according to the country's strategic determination and the numerous steps taken along the lines of that determination - we firmly intend to belong. To add insult to injury, we justify our refusal to impose sanctions on Russia with some kind of pragmatic economic reasons, calculating what we gain and lose by choosing one of the two obvious alternatives. Whoever loses sight of the fact that big moral choices cannot be based on incomparably smaller financial and similar calculations will lose in a slightly longer time perspective both on the ethical and economic level