
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 […]

General information on the procedure On 17 July 2026 the Government of the Republic of Serbia submitted to the National Assembly a draft Law on the Judicial Academy.The explanatory note to the draft states that the new Law on the Judicial Academy is the missing part of the renewed legal framework in the field of […]

Context On 13 July 2026, the procedure for electing a new Commissioner for Information of Public Importance and Personal Data Protection began, when the Speaker of the National Assembly announced a public call for candidate applications.The office of Commissioner is currently held by Milan Marinović (a former misdemeanour court judge), who was elected in July […]

Overview The Venice Commission of the Council of Europe has adopted two opinions on the adopted judicial reform package: an urgent opinion of April 24, 2026, containing nine specific and one general recommendation regarding the previously adopted laws (with significant criticism of the legislative procedure and the consequences of the new provisions); a follow-up opinion […]

Context and conclusions On 29 April 2026, the Freedom and Justice Party (SSP) parliamentary group submitted nine draft laws to the National Assembly, proposing that they be considered under urgent procedure. The proposals concern amendments to the following laws: the Law on the Election of the President of the Republic, the Law on Citizenship of […]
Background and process On 29 March 2026, local elections were held. At polling station 1, “Primary school Sveti Sava” in Aranđelovac, 1,153 voters cast ballots. The list “Aleksandar Vučić – Aranđelovac, our family!” received 510 votes, while the list “Students for Aranđelovac – Youth wins” received 611 votes. In its election day observation report, CRTA […]

Election day was marked by violence and tensions, numerous irregularities at polling stations, as well as inconsistent and selective conduct by the competent institutions. Under such conditions, citizens were to a significant extent deprived of the opportunity to votefreely in a peaceful environment and under conditions that meet basic democratic standards. Assesment of election day […]


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