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Have Serbia and the EU Fallen Out For Good?

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Serbia is threatening to pull out of the Council of Europe if they accept Kosovo as a member, effectively ending their ongoing application to join the EU. So in this video, we’ll explain what’s happened and why Vucic might be changing his foreign policy.

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1 – https://n1info-rs.translate.goog/vesti/forin-afers-rusija-preko-srbije-otvara-drugi-front-u-evropi/?_x_tr_sl=sr&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp
2 – https://twitter.com/SythUK/status/1769836587544617004?s=20
3 – https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/03/09/how-aleksandar-vucic-became-europes-favorite-autocrat/
4 – https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/12/18/elected-serbian-president-accused-bussing-voters-belgrade/
5 – https://www.politico.eu/article/serbia-opposition-protest-election-fraud-aleksandar-vucic/
6 – https://twitter.com/BIRODIrs/status/1756815602532974870/photo/1
7 – https://n1info.rs/vesti/nakon-usvajanja-rezolucije-ep-kako-je-u-medijima-predstavljan-vucic-a-kako-eu/
8 – https://balkaninsight.com/2024/03/25/council-of-europe-rapporteur-backs-kosovos-membership-bid/

00:00 Introduction
01:09 Vucic’s Balancing Act
04:15 New Shift Explained
07:16 What Happens Next?
07:59 Brilliant

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28 Comments

  1. @britishperson1940

    March 30, 2024 at 9:45 am

    Propaganda will only lie

  2. @pupinpupin9307

    March 30, 2024 at 9:45 am

    Britain is out..why should Serbia be part of EU..to serve as cannon meat to Washington against Russia..nah. EU is failed project.

  3. @jys76

    March 30, 2024 at 9:45 am

    Kosovo is such a fair and democratic society …😂😂😂

  4. @jys76

    March 30, 2024 at 9:45 am

    Blackmailed all along the road but he is the villain here…

    EU is walking on its head…😂😂😂

  5. @julianmorrisco

    March 30, 2024 at 9:45 am

    East and west? Indelicately, the Axis of Evil and the civilised world.

  6. @freedomm

    March 30, 2024 at 9:45 am

    EU propaganda. I don't know why this channel pops up in my recommendations .

  7. @dunomood

    March 30, 2024 at 9:45 am

    Serbia is poor and weak.They should shut up and stop praising the invader Russia. Take a look at the hospitals in Russia they are the same like in Serbia poor and disfunctional.

  8. @sanamih3944

    March 30, 2024 at 9:45 am

    The EU is a joke

  9. @alejandroavendano7988

    March 30, 2024 at 9:45 am

    Independence for Kosovo, Cataluña, Scotland, and a united Ireland

  10. @SelfProclaimedEmperor

    March 30, 2024 at 9:45 am

    Kosovo and Bosnia-hergovina must join NATO

  11. @HippiePajon

    March 30, 2024 at 9:45 am

    Y'all are extremely E.U. biased😂

  12. @limun9848

    March 30, 2024 at 9:45 am

    With every passing day my wish for Vojvodina to declare independence is increasing

  13. @alexzivkovic6538

    March 30, 2024 at 9:45 am

    WHAT GOOD FRIEND EU THEY SAID GIVE 15%- OF YOUR TERETORY TO ENTER EU WHAT GOOD FRIEND IS THE EU FOR SERBIA
    EU FOOLED THE UN RESOLUTION 1244 WHAT EU AND WEST AGREE THE KOSOVO IS PART OF SERBIA WEST DONT RESPECT AND UN LAW

  14. @godfather2129

    March 30, 2024 at 9:45 am

    Serbian people love Nato and EU because they want work and live in EU not in Russia, only goverment hate EU

  15. @krsma86

    March 30, 2024 at 9:45 am

    EU is no longer relevant.

  16. @blackcat.19

    March 30, 2024 at 9:45 am

    Serbitchia Oblast has never had any democratic progress. Autocrats rule there and they steal elections, intimidate opposition, kill and they align themselves with other autocratic countries.

  17. @zimskasalamabg

    March 30, 2024 at 9:45 am

    Today, Croatia is the second poorest country in the EU. When it entered the EU, it was not. Croatia was not poor and Serbs know that because we lived in the same country. .Serbs are not exactly enthusiastic about the idea of ​​being in the EU when they saw what happened to Croatia. Without the sea, Croatia would starve. Croatia had a good economy, but it disappeared in the EU. Serbia has no sea, so how can it survive in the EU?

  18. @feszty

    March 30, 2024 at 9:45 am

    Serbia doesn’t belong in the EU. They are proxies for Russia and they would undermine the EU in multiple ways.

  19. @user-cd3im1du3w

    March 30, 2024 at 9:45 am

    Finally. Imagine thinking EU is soveirgn. Russia and China is future especially because they by far respect International Law. For EU we will se great collapse in next ten years. And rise of politician like Orban.

  20. @seneca983

    March 30, 2024 at 9:45 am

    5:45 Auto-captions: "Voki the Chinese Serbian Monastery"

  21. @geofflepper3207

    March 30, 2024 at 9:45 am

    Serbia says to the EU, "If you don't do what we say we will leave the EU and stop you from continuing to send us lots of money and we will greatly jeopardize all the trade with the EU upon which we rely".

    EU responds, "Ok then. Whatever.
    Don't forget to close the door on the way out. Just wait a second first. Kosova is stepping in the door right now".

  22. @vagabond7883

    March 30, 2024 at 9:45 am

    : Serbia started the 1st World War with the assassination of Austrian archduke Franz Ferdinand. The assassin was a Serbian extremist who wanted to increase Serbian power in the Balkans. Little has changed since 1914.

  23. @MarshalRedDog

    March 30, 2024 at 9:45 am

    Picking East instead of West is a no brainer.

    The East is rising, the West is falling.

    After WW II USA made West Germany a storefront for capitalism.

    China will make Serbia a storefront for socialism.

  24. @bernardedwards8461

    March 30, 2024 at 9:45 am

    Kosovo isn't really independent, without subsidies from the US and EU it would collapse.

  25. @peterhughes2941

    March 30, 2024 at 9:45 am

    EU basket case

  26. @todo9633

    March 30, 2024 at 9:45 am

    Serbia needs to change to join the European community, or it can languish in authoritarianism with Russia and Hungary(who should also be kicked from the EU).

  27. @sevasthvostanski5588

    March 30, 2024 at 9:45 am

    you are talking about a subject you know nothing about. Vucic is a Western puppet, who supports him in order to deliver the independence of the occupied part of Serbia, but since the Serbian citizens finally see the truth of his betrayal, and since he did not fulfill the conditions of his Western masters, Vucic realizes that he will lose power and most likely to be convicted of high treason, he is trying to survive by deviating from pro-EU politics. Kosovo and Metohija is a Serbian territory occupied by NATO aggressor, and Serbia, according to the UN Charter, has the right and obligation to liberate the country from the occupier, if necessary by military means,alone or with the help of historical allies

  28. @HAPPYTHELEAF

    March 30, 2024 at 9:45 am

    God I hope so, and maybe we could too in Ireland the EU has destroyed Europe and Europeans no longer have a place go call home

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Yesterday’s state election in Saxony-Anhalt saw the AfD win in a landslide, falling just short of an outright majority. So in this video, we’ll look at the election, how the AfD pulled off this win and what it suggests about the future of German politics.

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2025 snap election results: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx29wlje6dno 
https://www.dw.com/en/german-election-results-explained-in-graphics/a-71724186 

YouGov poll: https://yougov.com/de-de/artikel/53090-ein-drittel-der-deutschen-burgerinnen-und-burger-sieht-ost-west-unterschiede-wahrnehmung-in-ostdeutschland-steigt 

FT charts: https://www.ft.com/content/19530193-b1b3-4f04-adc2-ecd7526bbfa8?syn-25a6b1a6=1 

Election results: https://wahlergebnisse.sachsen-anhalt.de/wahlen/lt26/erg_land.html?v=1788725527356

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Sources:

https://newsbriefing.eu/politics/meloni-hardens-migration-rhetoric-as-far-right-rival-vannacci-gains-ground
https://en.ilsole24ore.com/art/number-of-migrants-rises-repatriations-up-34-per-cent-in-the-first-six-months-AJVKjkm?refresh_ce=1
https://home-affairs.ec.europa.eu/policies/migration-and-asylum/pact-migration-and-asylum_en
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2013:180:0031:0059:en:PDF
https://italytelegraph.com/posts/italy-blocks-80000-migrant-transfers-what-the-eu-pact-really-changes-for-residents
https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2026/08/21/sweden-plans-to-send-migrants-to-italy-france-and-spain-reject-dublin-transfers
https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2026/08/21/sweden-plans-to-send-migrants-to-italy-france-and-spain-reject-dublin-transfers
https://www.eunews.it/en/2026/08/12/five-eu-member-states-are-considering-building-a-repatriation-centre-in-uganda/
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2024/10/04/giorgia-meloni-pushes-italy-s-migration-strategy-as-a-model_6728172_4.html
https://www.irreview.org/articles/2024/10/27/giorgia-meloni-is-offshoring-migration-to-solve-italys-immigration-concerns-now-the-rest-of-europe-is-interested-too
https://www.frontex.europa.eu/media-centre/news/news-release/frontex-irregular-border-crossings-down-26-in-2025-europe-must-stay-prepared-lyKpVb
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2026/08/italy-disastrous-offshore-agreement-with-albania-must-serve-as-a-wake-up-call-to-end-eus-cruel-migration-plans/
https://brusselssignal.eu/2026/08/vannacci-sanchez-is-right-on-immigration-meloni-is-a-fiasco/
https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/deputy-premier-salvini-rome-not-193326174.html
https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2026/08/21/sweden-plans-to-send-migrants-to-italy-france-and-spain-reject-dublin-transfers
https://italytelegraph.com/posts/italy-blocks-80000-migrant-transfers-what-the-eu-pact-really-changes-for-residents
https://italianismo.com.br/com-44-meloni-lidera-avaliacao-enquanto-partidos-perdem-espaco/

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POLITICO: Russia’s ‘hybrid’ war isn’t so hybrid
https://www.politico.eu/article/russias-hybrid-war-on-europe-is-starting-to-look-a-lot-less-hybrid/

Germany says Russia responsible for drone incident
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5ylm3m67n2o
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/germany/article/2026/09/01/germany-blames-russia-for-airport-drone-incident-hits-back-with-sanctions_6757058_146.html?srsltid=AfmBOorxo7cxCO7l0TFHlXxatD1xyz1S0UqgldCRST2dfYnQWOCJYFzH

EU-NATO talks on German drone incident
https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2026/09/02/von-der-leyen-russian-drone-incidents-in-europe-are-the-new-normal
https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2026/09/01/von-der-leyen-pledges-response-to-russian-hybrid-attacks-ahead-of-rutte-meeting

Russian hybrid warfare (Aug/Sep 2026)
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/8/31/poland-opens-terror-probe-into-fire-at-drone-factory
https://www.politico.eu/article/romania-jet-blasts-drone-near-offshore-gas-production-platform/
https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2026/08/20/nato-jets-scrambled-as-drone-enters-romanian-airspace

Analysis
https://carnegieendowment.org/europe/strategic-europe/2026/07/why-russia-could-escalate-hybrid-warfare-against-europe
https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/dispatches/where-and-how-putin-could-expand-his-war-in-europe-beyond-ukraine/

Russian drone incidents (September 2025)
https://youtu.be/bnt3CNXMPo0?si=RwEWSEx_4Vt69gSb

00:00 – Introduction
01:28 – Context
04:34 – Why It Doesn’t Feel So Hybrid
07:38 – Too Long

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Sources
German GDP data 2019-2025
https://www.economist.com/europe/2025/10/23/germanys-much-ballyhooed-autumn-of-reforms-is-a-damp-squib

Germany polls
https://www.politico.eu/europe-poll-of-polls/germany/
https://www.economist.com/europe/2026/08/31/how-the-alternative-for-germany-would-govern

Revised destatis data
https://www.destatis.de/EN/Themes/Economy/National-Accounts-Domestic-Product/_node.html
https://substack.com/home/post/p-211829645

IMF estimates for GDP growth in 2026
https://www.imf.org/external/datamapper/NGDP_RPCH@WEO/EU/EURO/EUQ/IDN

Ifo institute data
https://www.ifo.de/en/facts/2026-06-18/ifo-economic-forecast-summer-2026-energy-price-increase-acting-brake-fiscal-policy
https://www.ifo.de/en/survey-results

Germany trade data
https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/countries/deu/germany/trade-balance-deficit
https://tradingeconomics.com/germany/exports-to-china
https://wits.worldbank.org/CountryProfile/en/Country/DEU/Year/LTST/Summarytext
https://tradingeconomics.com/germany/exports

Indices
https://live.euronext.com/en/financial-news/german-manufacturing-growth-accelerates-august-orders-surge-pmi-shows
https://tradingeconomics.com/germany/manufacturing-pmi
https://www.ifo.de/en/survey-results

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