Vucic Says EU Has Criticized Tabloid Headline Linking Modern Germany to Nazism

Aleksandar Vucic (BETAPHOTO/PREDSEDNISTVO REPUBLIKE SRBIJE/Dimitrije Goll)

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on May 27 that none of his partners form the EU or European People’s Party – of which Vucic’s ruling Progressive Party of Serbia is a member – spoke to him regarding the controversial front page article of a pro-regime tabloid that linked today’s Germany with Nazism, but added that Progressives’ leader Milos Vucevic did say “he received complaints.”

“I am in absolute disagreement with what was written. I don’t understand such a front page nor where it came from. Germany is a democratic country and loathes Nazism. It has clearly denounced such a past unlike some [countries] from our region,” Vucic told a press conference during his visit to China.

Asked whether foreigners required Vucevic to explain the headline “Germany Readying for Fourth Reich,” the president said he told Vucevic “that he cannot make decisions for editors and journalists because they have the freedom of opinion.”

However, said article – which was published on the front page of the May 24 edition of the Vecernje Novosti daily and can no longer be found on the Internet – “speaks of freedom in Serbia,” Vucic concluded.