Anti-Regime Actors Split on Issue of EU

Dragan Djilas (BETAPHOTO/MILAN OBRADOVIC)

The European Union is not bolstering Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic’s regime and only one policy will lead to change: a policy encapsulated by the motto “No to Vucic, yes to Europe,” Freedom and Justice Party leader Dragan Djilas said in a statement on June 24.

The press release states it is a response to Milo Lompar – a professor of the Belgrade University School of Philology and a rumored candidate of the university student ticket in the coming elections – who claimed the EU is one of the Vucic regime’s support pillars and that “the other half of Serbia” cannot overlook decades of the untruths the Union has spoken.

According to Djilas, “there is only one Serbia, loved equally by all its citizens.” “Your words divide the people in the same way Vucic and the Radicals like to do,” Djilas told Lompar in his statement.

The Freedom and Justice Party head concluded by stressing that the current regime relies not on EU support but on “criminals, thugs, false journalists, false patriots, corrupt police officers and prosecutors, as well as the businessmen plundering Serbia [alongside the regime].”