Vucic Says Europe Should Be Braver, More Open to Change like Serbia

Conference on Global Politics, April 25 2026 ( Photo: PrintScreen Instagram/ buducnostsrbijeav)

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic told an April 25 plenary session of the International Conference on Global Politics that Europeans were losing important battles and did not see that they were falling behind other parts of the world.

"We are falling behind not just the U.S. in robotics and artificial intelligence, but China as well, and this is becoming a growing gap for all of us. The world is not just Europe. We should all be braver and more open to change," Vucic said.

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He said Europeans should be "very aggressive" about expanding Europe's influence to Africa and Asia without wasting time on technical and bureaucratic issues every day.

He said that, though a small country, Serbia, "which is maybe not so significant to Europe ... is changing something and looking to the future," but could not forget history and "the hardest situation for it -- Kosovo," and that it was "the denial that its territorial integrity was violated that is causing its misalignment with global politics."