Vučić’s addresses in June (31 addresses) In July, President Aleksandar Vučić delivered 31 public addresses. They were carried by 216 local television channels and 123 national and cable channels. The addresses centered on infrastructure projects, the economy, the upcoming elections and energy policy, and were built around two dominant narrative threads: glorifying government policies and […]

Draft law analysis Draft Law Amending the Law on Prevention of Corruption The Agency for the Prevention of Corruption has proposed amendments aimed at a clearer separation between the exercise of public office and election campaigning, and at preventing the misuse of public office and public resources. The draft implements four ODIHR and several GRECO […]

Summary On 30 July 2026, ODIHR published the report of its Needs Assessment Mission and recommended a full Election Observation Mission for Serbia’s anticipated early elections. The report maps the concerns raised by its interlocutors, CRTA among them, rather than delivering ODIHR’s own verdict.Read next to CRTA’s monitoring, those concerns are familiar. On the electoral […]

Summary From 6 to 10 July 2026, ODIHR sent a Needs Assessment Mission to Serbia to decide whether, and how, to observe the early elections, expected later in the year after a round of electoral legislative reform, meeting the authorities, parties, media, civil society, academia and international actors, CRTA among them. Such a report is […]

On 29 July, the National Assembly rejected a motion of no confidence in the government of Prime Minister Đuro Macut. Of 176 MPs present, 40 voted in favour of the motion, 135 against, and one abstained, so the cabinet retained the Assembly’s confidence. The debate ran across three days, from Monday 27 to Wednesday 29 […]

Summary Following reports published in Informer about a proposed change to a provision of the University of Belgrade (UB) Statute concerning the election of candidates for rector, the Ministry of Education announced an extraordinary inspection of the procedure for amending the UB Statute.As announced, the inspection is difficult to reconcile with the legal limits of […]

Within a single fortnight in July 2026, the European Commission produced two documents about the same country and largely the same developments – but they tell a very different story. On 3 July, the Commission circulated an internal note for EU Member States on recent developments in Serbia relevant to Cluster 3. The non-paper, later […]

Interpol has informed Serbian authorities that it will not issue international arrest warrants against six students and activists from the STAV group (Students Against Authoritarian Rule) and the Movement of Free Citizens (PSG), who have spent 16 months abroad in political exile. According to their defence, Interpol assessed the case as political in nature and, […]

The European Commission has published its 2026 Rule of Law report on Serbia. The picture it paints is of a country where the formal reform agenda keeps moving – new laws, new strategies, new opinions requested from the Venice Commission – while the substance of the rule of law continues to erode in practice. Political […]