According to Balkan expert Chiara Nalli, who spoke to EIR, the European Union has implemented a hegemonic strategy in the Balkans that encompasses both economic and political aspects.
Starting with benefitting from immigrants’ labor and economic opportunities linked to reconstruction operations immediately after the Balkan wars, the EU has recently expanded its penetration in terms of economic conditioning and political influence, that in some cases take on the features of destabilization and so-called “color revolution”—to make submit those countries that resisted its blueprint. This is presently the case with Serbia, whose government is accused with carrying out a too independent foreign and economic/social policy.
Nalli has worked for more than 15 years in financial institutions operating internationally, and is an independent researcher with a focus on the Balkans. She recently spent several weeks in Serbia, conducting interviews and investigations in the field and ascertained that a “color revolution” in Serbia started long ago, with the training of the intellectual class in order to start a proto-fascist movement in the universities.Teachers and intellectuals in general were co-opted and corrupted by promoting their careers and financing their activities. Then, after the collapse of the concrete canopy collapse of the Novi Sad railway station on Nov. 1, 2024, which left 16 people dead, students started a protest movement. As the student protest grew, it became evident that the university’s dean, who presented himself as mediator between the protest and the authorities, was, in reality, the deus ex machina of the protest.
Meanwhile, 13 of the political and technical individuals responsible for the Novi Sad tragedy have been incriminated and are being held in preventive arrest. However, some parents of the victims have filed affidavits calling for investigation of a possible sabotage of the building, which was built by a Chinese company.
To anyone who stays for a longer period in Serbia, it’s evident that the protests are confined to the students and that the majority of the population is not involved and is rather becoming tired with the ongoing obstacles of institutional activities, such as the education system. It is also a well-known secret that foreign-financed NGOs have played a leading role in the protest, which is now openly demanding a “regime-change.”
