Belgrade, panorama (BETAPHOTO/MILOS MISKOV)
If official Belgrade accepts the assessment of Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) according to which the European Union is readying to topple Serbia’s government on the one-year anniversary of the Novi Sad Railway Station tragedy, then President of Serbia Aleksandar Vucic needs to explain whether Serbia is still committed to joining the EU, Zdravko Ponos, the leader of the oppositional Serbia Center party, said on Sept. 17.
“I say Serbia is still committed to the EU and that [Vucic] isn’t lying, only leading [the country] in the wrong direction. Everyone else is going in one direction, he’s going in another. If he believes they’ll topple him, then what is he doing on that path at all?” Ponos said in a statement issued by his party.
Russia’s FSB claimed earlier that the EU is behind the youth-led “riots in Serbia” and that the Nov. 1 anniversary of the railway station canopy collapse, which killed 16, will be used to finalize “Serbia’s Maidan [revolution].”
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