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Student protests grow in Serbia

Hundreds of thousands marched in Belgrade on March 15 in a culmination of months-long student mobilization

Serbian students keep up pressure for accountability over Novi Sad tragedy

Serbia’s student movement continues protests and occupations, demanding justice and political accountability for the Novi Sad railway station canopy collapse

Serbian prime minister resigns amid nationwide protests

Following months of protests over a fatal construction collapse in Novi Sad, Serbian Prime Minister Miloš Vučević has stepped down

Protests continue in Novi Sad following train station collapse

The collapse of a canopy at Novi Sad’s newly renovated train station at the beginning of November, which killed 14 people, has led to widespread protests and public outrage

Berlin activists protest Rio Tinto’s Serbia lithium extraction plans

Protesters in Berlin condemned planned lithium mining in Serbia, accusing the German government and industry of hypocrisy and greenwashing in their support of the controversial Rio Tinto project

Can Serbia “cure” its public pharmacies?

Pharmacy services in Serbia have become entirely profit-driven, with the needs of the population pushed aside

Violence and low salaries drive Serbian teachers to protest at the beginning of new school year

Education workers in Serbia are planning industrial action as the new school year begins, driven by widespread violence and unresolved income disputes

Battle for Jadar: tens of thousands rally against Rio Tinto’s mining project in Serbia

Tens of thousands rallied in Belgrade, marking the peak of month-long protests against the resumption of Rio Tinto’s Jadar Project

Serbians protest Rio Tinto’s lithium mining project

Mass protests erupted in over 40 locations in Serbia against planned lithium mining, while the EU appears to back Rio Tinto’s controversial project

Serbian Progressive Party retains the majority in the general elections

The elections have been regarded as a referendum on the popularity of the Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic who is the leader of the incumbent Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) led coalition.

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Educators in Serbia demand fair wages, dignity for work

Teachers and their unions have been demanding basic wages at par with the average wage in the country and reduction in non-academic work. Unions held a massive rally in Belgrade on September 24 to press these demands

Serbia rattled by the killing of 17 people in back-to-back mass shootings

Gun ownership in Serbia is among the highest in Europe and a massive proliferation of small arms took place in the country and in around the Balkans during the civil wars in the 1990s which led to the disintegration of the erstwhile Yugoslavia.