Opposition Leader: Vucic’s Policy is Anti-European

Dragan Djilas (BETAPHOTO/AMIR HAMZAGIC)

Dragan Djilas, the head of the oppositional Freedom and Justice Party, believes that Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic is leading an “anti-European policy” and that “an isolated Serbia, as the only European country which is not or does not want to be part of the EU, has no way of progressing and offering [its people] a better life,” the Freedom and Justice Party announced on Jan 5.

Speaking for the Usual Suspect podcast, Djilas stated that “today, when the world is divided, when the EU and U.S. are de facto at war with Russia” the decision to forego EU membership means “isolating Serbia,” the press release says.

According to Djilas, prior to said war, one could discuss the option of a plural foreign policy or attempt to maintain formally good relations with everyone, but that is no longer an option. “Either you’re with Europe or against it,” the politician asserted.

In his opinion, “the past 13 years of [Vucic’s] campaigns and rhetoric” have been aimed at Serbia having “better relations with Russia and China than with the EU and U.S.” Vucic has “called the Russians and Chinese our friends, our saviors, while accusing Europe of being against Serbia, of staging a color revolution,” the party leader said.

The result of Vucic’s “anti-European policy has led to the decline of support for EU membership [among the Serbian public] from 67 percent in 2012 to a mere 33 percent in 2025,” Djilas concluded.