Oh we don't, the truth is Serbia is completely corrupt, we the government is, why the EU hasn't sanctioned Serbia is very simple, the EU is funding 70% of that corruption, you see its easy to condemn election fraud, while still financing it, the EU needs the current government, Serbia is a small country, but it is very relevant, that's why even tho they fund Kosovo as well, the current government there is not going with the flow, Kosovo was relevant for its natural deposits, but after 25 years those have declined, so now the deposit "lithium" in this case, is in Serbia, so the tide has turned, the west loves dictators that they can control, it's very simple.
Rio tinto is destroying everything around the world to greedy monsters 👻 👽 😢 support Serbians not "vucic " his tractor/dictator and puppet of corruption
First of all, how did you come to the conclusion that European policies are hypocritical? Second of all, how did you come to the conclusion that it's something typical? Pretending to talk like an intellectual and being cynical does not make you an intellectual. You're a narcissist at most.
They are soft becasue this situation suits them. From Serbia they are getting very cheap labor, cheap exports, good deal with the corrupt Government and all the recourses they can mine for no charge at all. And all of that without getting new member that they will need to give more money than they are already giving. TLDR - becasue EU likes money more and they are willing to let people there suffer as long as that is in their interest.
Vucic does almost everything that EU and USA asks them to do, so it is profitable for EU to keep him around. Nobody cares about what serbian people want, anyway
@@FairyCRat More lithium mines means increased use of batteries in electric cars and other green technologies which should be a net positive for "nature", hopefully; its not so black and white.
Clean energy in the west and ravaged nature in Serbia. Later you can post out of context graphs online and brag how greeb your country is and how the rest of the world had to pick up the slack against pollution.
@@terdragontra8900 There's nothing "green" about batteries made of dangerous chemicals. Furthermore, those batteries get charged by a petrol powered grid in the end.
No choice but nothing happened yet.... mining is lithium is impossible without Ganz Europa wird erst in den Niederlanden sauber sein, alles wird. verschmutzt sein, weil es voller aggressiver Säuren, Wasser und anderer Gifte, Metalle ist
I'm from Serbia, and I think that this video sums up the situation pretty well. Just let's not forget that the EU supported Vučić in his rise to power in the early 2010's. Now, they are also supporting him in remaining in power. Most of the people in Serbia just want peace, economic stability and security for people living in Serbia and for Serbs (and others) living in the Balkan region. Lot of young people in Serbia (like me) work for Western companies, and respect EU as an economic partner, but sometimes we feel let down by some EU decisions, like supporting lithium mining in Serbia. One more reason why EU is supporting Vučić which is not mentioned here, is that Serbia is a supplier of ammunition to Ukraine, even though we are labeled sometimes as "Russian ally". I think that at least 80% of the people here do not support war in Ukraine (because we know how it is when you have a war in your country), but when you look at history, sanctions often effect more regular citizens of the sanctioned country, and less it's government.
Serbians are the ones supporting Vucic to remain in power. Yes he is an authoritarian figure, but he remains in power because he was elected in fair elections
Bravo za komentar! I am also from Serbia and this comment adds more value to the discussion. Serbia is generally considered a Russian ally which is true to a degree, but not entirely. Many Serbs disagree with Russia's foreign policy but keep the good traditional and brotherly relations with Russian people. We've also always had good relations with Ukrainians, especially since many Soviet liberators from Nazi occupation during WW2 were Ukrainians. Serbian and Ukrainian languages are more alike than Serbian and Russian even! Serbs help Ukrainians in the conflict by supplying them with ammo but we also know well that sanctions won't help ordinary Russian people, hence we do not impose them. We are for the people and against any war and illegal occupation of sovereign territories, which we've also experienced with illegal occupation of Kosovo and self-proclaimed independency by ethnic Albanians. I felt the need to comment this given the majority of foreigners do not have the complete picture and get their sources of information from anti-Serb and biased western media.
Sadly you're wrong about one thing. Most people support Russia in Ukraine, because they're Russophiles or because they simply want to support whatever is opposite to the west, since most Serbians blame the war on NATO and US, rather than Russia
@@nemanjakukic4519 četo if you didnt want Kosovo to seceede u shouldnt Have had to fire 2/3rds of Kosovo Albanian workers and make Serbian the official language.
Politicians of the EU countries and overall EU institutions are responsible for their constituents first and foremost. They have absolutely no reason to take into consideration anything that affects people of Serbia, be it positive or negative. In their minds, it is of course good that THEIR companies economically colonize other countries and take over the markets, that filthy industry is moved to countries other than their own, and that they exploit cheap workforce that someone else can offer. For them to think otherwise would be, frankly, idiotic. It would go against the interest of people that elected them. Which is why western countries in general never shied away from supporting dictators and autocrats - those are very good in keeping the order in countries in question and keeping the decision making to a select few corrupt individuals instead of a people's assembly where some deals might fall through. They don't want autocrats in THEIR societies, but they are more than willing to support them elsewhere as long as it benefits them. When it no longer does, then "democratic revolution" follows, supported by those same countries. And it usually happens once the autocrat they supported all those years thinks they can say "No" to a request issued. And in case of Serbia specifically, if we talk about its population - 80% of it does not want to deal with the EU. They want their money, they want their quality of life, but they don't want their societal organization, respect of law and order (or, more correctly, they want it only when it benefits them - otherwise, they like when they can get ahead with a bit of corruption) and their principles of governance. They are also heavily brainwashed over the course of the decades to like not even Russia in general, but Putin and his government explicitly. And while you are correct, majority of people would like the war to end, that same majority thinks Russia is in the right here and should win the war... pardon, "special military operation".
Before the Russian invasion of Ukraine happened, this was pretty much the case here in Hungary The EU did complain about Orbán being an autocrat and holding back EU decisionmaking and whatnot, but we were just SO GOOD at providing cheap labor for Western companies that they couldn’t stay angry at us You know, Western values and all that
The issue with supporting leaders that backslide on democracy, is that any short term stability gained, is payed for with long term stability. The purpose of checks and balances is that it allows you to throw out incompetent leaders, after all.
True, it kinda reminds me of Putin years ago when he took over Crimea, the west was too soft on Putin, so he took his chances and invaded all Ukraine. Dictators or wannabe dictators only understand one language, and that's much tougher measures against them that makes them think twice about their actions, appeasement or soft touch doesn't work, it emboldens them to want to take more. Both the EU and US needs to get their act together in a world that is becoming more hostile and unstable, they need to start doing what's right and create more stability before things get out of hand, otherwise, things could escalate quite quickly that drags us all in it, and with the rise of the far right in Europe and North America, we might have already left it too late by being too soft with appeasement, I mean serious, the likes of Putin, XI and others are playing games, trying to divide us and manipulate us, Putin has been very successful at that in both the EU and US over the last decade, and all we've done is give him a slap on the wrist for it. Some might not realise it but war has already started with two camps against each other with Putin trying his best to divide the western camps in the EU and US and has been quite successful on that, XI trying to divide the EU away from the US, and then we have all the other pawns in many countries being used.from Serbia to Hungary and so on.
Saying hi from Hungary - Merkel basically used us for car manufacturing, let Orbán do his thing with corruption in exchange for us poorer workers to make cars for Western EU. 14 years later and we are the next Greek crisis.
It has always been very important: location, history/culture, position, accessibility to diverse regions, transit by land, transit by river, bridge east-west (from Roman empire till 2024)... It is not without reason that it was conquered by many empires long before our times. Country that undergoes that pressure is anything but unimportant.
Serbia is a great example what happens to you when you are in the middle of Europe and you refuse to join NATO and EU (kind of). ... nothing. Absolutely nothing happens to you. Nobody invades you, nobody forces you, nobody sanctions you. Russian trolls would have you believe that NATO somehow invades countries and forces them to join.
A bit of fact-checking. Vučić and Scholz did not sign an agreement but a memorandum of understanding, which is not a legally binding act. Rio Tinto is a UK-Australian company, not Anglo-American. And finally: after many EU countries elected populist governments in prior years, what exact values are we talking about? Suddenly lithium is more important than freedom of speech, independent media, and an independent judicial system?
Legally binding, etc. are hocus pocus words used to instill an illusion of some supposed legal protection independent of politics, and is complete utter bullshit, issues concerning geopolitics and energy security are dealt with by the security state apparatus, that cares not for any law gods or mans. The only thing of note here is public support for the project by the highest EU representatives. All Anglos are of a piece, and Americans are Anglos. Colonial resource extraction, natural and human is the main function of western countries since the dawn of capitalism and European colonialism centuries ago, every single aspect of society is subordinate to it. And that will continue until western imperialism and fascism stands utterly destroyed or until its endless greed leads to the destruction of global human society, most likely via climate change.
Those who give milions of euros for "democratisation" and accept to play by certain rules that they then decide to disregard. Are you naive? Pride is fine, but be realistic as well.
@@Ms777Lena What "millions"?! Ordinary Serbs have nothing good out of those "millions"! Those millions go mainly into the pockets of Serb NGO's to keep in check corrupt PUPPET regime and to INDOCTRINATE Serb population ! It is money reserved also for propaganda and active Western- OCCUPATION of Serbia. Because Western secret services and corrupt puppet politicians from Serbia need help of those NGO's to totally control all Serb media and keep Serb society under their control.
@@Ms777LenaAnd jet the same people who gave said money are okey with Vucic selling Serbia to Rio Tinto, and police brutality towards non-white immigrants (bcs russians once we r cool with)? Lets face it, EU gives no shit about Serbia, if it did it would support democratic fight against Rio Tinto, not prioritising its own ass by sacrificing Jadar.
Countries like Serbia are independent only de jure. De facto, those countries are banana republics ruled by foreign powers... Bulgaria is the same parody. It doesn't matter if there is an autocratic rule or democracy... You do what you are told to do...
That can never change. A small country can only do so much on its own. It's got to either pick a side, or try to maintain a balancing act between major powers like Serbia is doing right now. The problem with that is that it can be incredibly risky. At the end of the day, it's about doing what needs to be done, in order to extract as much value for the nation as possible.
@@dzonikg Bulgaria is making 7th elections 3 years. People know that voting is pointless and they simply do not vote. Those countries are always a clown fiesta.
As a Serbian who is opposed to lithium mining due to obvious environmental concerns, it's very disappointing that the EU and EC have disregarded the will, health, and ecology of a European nation for a small geopolitical gain (remember, it is expected that lithium car batteries will be obsolete in about 10 years). It tells me that the EU is getting desperate. And I've seen the same things happen in my country over the decades and, trust me, when politicians get desperate, they tend to disregard the well-being of their own nation in a blink of an eye. Seems to me that the EU is getting there (and that too brings me concern since we always thought if the situation in Serbia gets any worse, we'll move to somewhere else in Europe, but desperate times seem to be upon the EU).
i mean EU and governments in general exist for the purpose of facilitating the continuation of the economy, the return of investment these days is low, and gaining new venues for profit helps delay certain crisises that tend to pop up every 50 years, EU in general is ran for the facilitation of investment, trade and profit. it doesnt really matter if you are disregarded as EU will still be doing its job.
The EU protects the EU members. It is very likely that a democratically elected leader wouldn't allow lithium mining. Due to it being unpopular. But we need it desperately to meet our future needs. So we are sacrificing one country for the good of the many. Hope you understand and thank you
@@Kage-jk4pj you are sacrificing lives of one nation for what good of many? So that you can have electric cars? You absolute prick. You will not mine here!
@@Kage-jk4pj Didn't seem like it during the migration crisis. Didn't seem like it when Greece's debt repayment was used to save German banks (see interview with Varufakis). And it definitely won't seem like it in 10 years when/if the EU becomes more desperate. Hope you'll have such a positive outlook when the mines open in your backyard, my co-European friend.
Democracy is in crisis globally, so this was to be expected. Unfortunately everything you said is true, but Serbians should understand that no one can help them other than themselves. I am sure you are familiar with Balkan mentality, it is always someone else responsible, someone else to blame for everything bad that happens, someone else destroyed Yugoslavia from the outside while Yugoslavs just enjoyed smelling the flowers on the field, and those sorts of things. Serbians must think for themselves, they should take the responsibility for the situation they are at the moment, and then start solving it. This means that they need to understand the chronology of everything, which means that they should not have got into this situation in the first place, and just then think about bad moves from the EU. They should start talking about why they were in the situation to be bombarded in 1999 instead of playing a victim. They should stop selling their votes for a bag of sugar and bottle of vegetable oil, they should stop being depoliticised and act like politics is a filthy word, they should learn about democracy and why it is a much better system than autocracy. So much things to do, blaming the EU and international community for not being consistent comes in the end after you did everything you could on your own.
Because they know that they forcibly took part of Serbia's territory against all international rights, and time will tell what kind of mistake they made.
The Serbian people feel deeply betrayed by the European Union, starting with the EU's approach to Kosovo, which they believe overlooked their concerns. This sense of betrayal was further intensified by the EU's position on lithium exploration, where many Serbians feel their national interests were disregarded. The situation worsened with what the Serbian people see as the EU’s willingness to recognize (last) elections that they believe were rigged in a country where press freedom is severely restricted. To many, these actions signal a broader pattern of disregard for their sovereignty and democratic values.
The only thing I agree with you is on the EU's approach to Kosovo. It was a mistake to recognize Kosovo as an independent state. As a Romanian, we continue to refuse this outcome and will bar Kosovo from any international institutions until there is a proper settlement agreed upon by Serbia as well on this matter. In regards to the lithium exploration and exploitation, on the long term this will be beneficial for the Serb people. It will create jobs, it will bring a lot of money due to foreign investments and the value of the resource is high, thus an important source of income for the Serb state. The elections in Serbia might've been rigged in some specific areas, but overall they were not. Vucic and his party won by a large margin, which makes it almost impossible to be rigged. There is no proof that elections were rigged at a mass scale. The opposition in Serbia is pure clown fiesta, so no wonder the average Serb doesn't bother voting for them.
This is all true but I don't care about what the Serbian people think tbh, no more than I care what bloodthirsty Israeli citizens think about how much they want Palestinians to suffer
The fact they look same thing Crimea and Kosovo as a separate and not exactly the same thing is classic European audacity. Crimea is Ukraine. Russia occupied Ukrainian territory. Kosovo is Serbia. It is occupied Serbian territory.
As a Serb who is against Vucic's traitorous policies, I am still missing to understand why do you think anyone from EU should sanction my country? EU takes out of Serbia in between 3-5 billion euros and the trade between EU and Serbia severely favours the EU so I think that EU should keep its mouth shut.
@WSINH EU benefits far more from trade with Serbia than Serbia benefits from the EU. They directly push their companies, flooding the Serbian market. Not to mention Serbia is a transit country, they rely on Serbian autoways and railways to connect with Greece and Turkey (cause Romanian and Bulgarian infrastructure is pathetically disjointed). They also have a lot of benefit from selling their old industry thats no longer compliant with EU laws into Serbia, and can directly chuck any unwanted migrants to Serbia because its the closest non-conflict nation outside of the EU. Frankly you know nothing about how the EU enforces its colonial behavior onto Serbia.
As a Danish Bosnian, trust me brother, they just don’t want the Balkan to shine, they don’t want you to buy and work with the Chinese, they want you to buy our products only. As long it’s like this, don’t join the EU, for your own and the greater good.
Lmao, its crazy how often our media outlets make fun of the east for falling for propaganda and then people say shit like eu moral authority. It feel like a joke, we are falling for propaganda more often than most of the world it seems, and everybody here is clueless to it
This video assumes that Serbia is a colony, so it must be "punished" if it does not follow the EU's foreign policy and dictates. I thought this channel was promoting democracy and democratic values, but clearly, it is not. I thought that freedom of choice in the context of creating foreign policy was in the true spirit of democracy, but TLDR seems to believe that stronger countries have the right to bully and punish smaller countries if they are not complying with their foreign policy agenda. By promoting "punishment" as a normalized way of treating other countries, TLDR is turning into a colonial propaganda tool, which is very sad given that the channel has some good content.
"the true spirit of democracy" regards the internal organization of a country; it has nothing to do with foreign policy. And btw, as the founding principle of democracy is 'rule of the majority', small countries' interest is (right) to bow before the interest of the more. For small countries to avoid this, the solution is to stop being small, either by conquering (rarely feasable) or by federating with your neighbours into one (!) bigger democratic state. The EU's goal is (was?) just that.
@@NAYRUthunder99 I'm not sure I understand your argument. We are talking here about an independent country that refuses to become a satellite state or colony of a much bigger system-the EU. Freedom of choice is a key value of the democratic spirit that this channel seems to be promoting, and I do not understand how it should be ignored when applied in the context of foreign policy. Democracy goes beyond the internal organization of the state; it is a value system. Regardless, promoting punishment or any other form of aggression towards another country to force it into changing its foreign policy is barbaric.
Rather, it assumes that the EU's foreign policy should be based on the EU's own interests rather than those of Serbia. And questions whether appeasement of the Vučić regime is actually in the EU's interest.
@@strahinjalekic836That's truth in kindergarten. There is no such thing in the real life and there never was. Romans were killing them. Now the do it too. The job of the politics is to position your country in the map, has some good back and look how to use others. They use you for something and that's good as long as you get your share too.
I love how democracy is measured not by freedom of individuals or accountability of the government but by freedom of massive powerful and wealthy institutions. Really shows you who matters to the powers that be
No country should have commited atrocities - and yet they all did. That is the our gruesome history, as the world. And then an imperialist power, probably much worse than any small one, like NATO, will push it's propaganda to make people comply with their interests (like bombing Belgrade... or Palestine). The best thing a person (American, Albanian, German, Serbian, Russian...) can do about it is to not be stupid, and always doubt the govt. @@skatesuperbaby
Bro speaking about democracy Second later: Serbia should be sanctioned because it did not sanction Russia, we have a right to do whatever we want, we don’t respect the rules that you try to give us
Wrong, they can't directly influence things as much as they could if they were in the EU, but the EU has chosen to do more and more business with the country thus providing more income to it. Thing of how China has grown since since 1980s when the USA and the world decided they are going to be their manufacturing hub.
Trust me we won’t join. Serbia doesn’t need nor wants the EU. Apart from maybe some corrupt politicians who are bribed by the westerners. If anything seems more like EU at this time can’t live without us. Because they nonstop bring us up. We want to live our lives and choose whoever we want to be friends with etc. Time EU minds it’s own business.
Hahaha, after supporting wars against Serbia in 1990s, supporting Kosovo's independence since 1998, and bombing in 1999, the EU is indeed sooo soft on Serbia 😂Cant imagine how it would be if you are a bit rougher
@@metimetti156 It´s 2024. The Kosovo war 1998/99 has strong similarities with the Palestine-Israel conflict. Like Hamas UCK started massacring Serbs and then Serbia did exaggerated revenge on the Albanian population of Kosovo similar like Israel does. For some reason Israel gets supported with weapons while Serbia was bombed and some part of their country split off against all international laws.
@@metimetti156Holocoust? What are u talking there are no more Serbs on Kosovo becouse u kill all people down there. Now its 95% Albanians? West kick my people from my south part of my country.
Ne da nije nego je sama Demokratija nemoguća bez zakona a to je onda nesto drugo međutim EU je po Cenzurom zbog svega što se dešava i kako se ne bi saznalo da nema više ničega, nema proizvodnje sve je stalo i samo je Univerzalni dohodak neko rešenje u moderno doba komunizam.
As a Serbian a) if you want to talk about EU being soft on candidates lets talk about Romania and Bulgaria how they are fast tracked into EU and why. b) we would just switch one semi democratic regime with another that center is in Brussels not in Belgrade c) and again as a Serbian I hope we will NEVER EVER be part of EU. Everyone in Serbia that thinks we would be equal with people of western Europe is nuts. We do not belong there in same country with them. I challenge one Serbian to show one moment in our history when they were our friends and didn’t try to exploit us! Look just Rio Tinto . Germany has 2 or 3 times as much Lithium as Serbia. Why they don’t mine there? And what we should do tomorrow? Go to Brussels to demonstrate??? Wake up Serbia NEVER EVER EU!!!
European union is a failed project, most of their countries are full of NATO(read USA) military bases, which basically means they are vassals to the real empire(USA). The western europe leaders(read parties) are just doing everything they can to stay in power(basically what every corrupt piece of shit leader in the balkans does)
1) I was told that it was because the US pressured Romania to be part of the EU, and if Romania was joining, Bulgaria had to join too as it was then performing similarly as Romania in terms of candidacy requirements.
Why would anyone want the balkans? Is there resources there? Are you sure the West didn't just want to stabilize the region's tensions for smoother trade and profits?
@@dingus6317 Yes, certainly there are resources: mining (minerals, metals), people (workforce), location, rivers (major European river flows through capital), road-lines, transit, logistics. Serbia has a unique location and all superpowers have always been around monitoring (I don't think that is without reason). Maybe for you EU people it has been presented as not important but I bet many of you have no clue where your comfortable lifestyles come from and who pays for it. I would argue that there are more resources in Serbia than in many EU states. Mining would lead to devastation of the country and displacement of people and people simply do not want it. That includes many of Serbs that are pro-civil society, pro-rule-of-law. They work for western companies and cherish all values that are nurtured in EU, However EU behaves completely opposite way towards Serbia helping its autocracy to stay in power.
@@engineer695 I mean, they are financially benefiting by stabilizing the region and allowing business to go on as normal so their helping is not entirely out of altruism, right? I seriously am unaware of any mineral or resource deposits in the region, and I thought the populations were heavily ideologically divided and sparse, that is why I asked. I also thought the geography was mountainous and difficult to traverse, so was confused on what the west would value in the region. In my schooling in America, we weren't taught much about the Balkans besides it being the start of WW1 and then if your class has time, a bit about the collapse of Yugoslavia and the bombing of Serbia in the 90s. Most of what I have learned about the region has been through playing games and my own research sadly. Serbia is heavily tied to Russia, so maybe the conflict in the 90s was another proxy war like what is going on in Ukraine now? With the middle east the poppy and oil fields made things more obvious at least, even if the initial claim was about WMDs lol..
@@dingus6317 You should read about Balkan Peninsula during Middle Ages (medieval times) as well as Kingdom of Yugoslavia after WW1 and Socialist Yugoslavia after WW2 1945-1990.
Yes, it is a bit softer than Nazi Germani or Indenpendent state of Croatia. Maybe, because Vucic is building/legitimizing Albanian drug mab parastate in southern part, not because EU is better than them.
the people feel no love for the EU, or Vučić nonetheless. this will result in a big wave of hate, and will bring such turmoil that the whole balkans will feel it.
Maybe because the EU forces Serbia to recognize Kosovo independence as part of its join clause in the EU, directly going against its sovereignty. It would be exactly like if Ukraine was demanded to recognize Crimean Republic and Donbas Republic before joining the EU.
The thumbnail is so funny, bruh. x'D As a Serb, this is a pretty accurate video tbh. Literally a situation of "I scratch your back, you scratch mine." :O
Only 45 countries imposed sanctions on Russia while 151 countries did not! Should we impose sanctions on all 150 countries? Serbia has BRICS as an alternative to EU due to its great geographic location and by enjoying friendly terms to the rest of the world!
It's because we maintain balance between great powers and dont just listen too one of them and go against others that are rivals with it. That allows us to always have the alternative if one side tries to pressure us to much.
Kosovo is practically independent, most of the gas comes from Russia, and Serbia (and the rest of the Balkans tbh) are slaves of the west, just look at the attempt of Germany to pollute Serbia by opening lithium mines so their car industry can keep up with the Chinese. Such wow, much sway.
You are delusional. They just want cheap workers and continue with the contamination bcs Yugoslavia did this all over the places and Serbs were eager to (well they were also fine with Slovenia leaving) continue with that failed proyect that they started several wars. Good for Serbia that things have changed and their guess was wrong at least in the sense they prefer having clean enviroment.
Soft? And threats of sanctions if we don't do as they say? For Kosovo, they forced us to agree to everything, but when Kurti was supposed to do his part, he just said no. If Kurti was in Paris and waited like a fool for no one to show up, Serbia would be under sanctions for not respecting the agreement, etc. But no, it was the President of Serbia who waited like a fool and got nothing and the EU didn't do or say anything. They threatened us with sanctions because we wanted to be neutral regarding Ukraine because that is what we want to be neutral and good with everyone. Then they forced us to sell ammunition to someone in the EU, it was never said who bought it, and sent it to Ukraine, and then their media told Russia that we were abandoning them. They are fighting for freedom, and there is no such freedom anywhere. They are saviors but when someone doesn't do as they want they immediately threaten? Freedom is when every country can say and do what it wants, which is exactly what Orban is trying to do, but they constantly trample him because they don't want him to have his freedom.
The main problem here is that the EU is simply too WEAK to make consistent political decisions. On the one hand it is confronted with aggressive Chinese (economic) and Russian (military) actions, on the other hand it is increasingly dependent on the increasingly unfriendly USA because of the Chinese/Russian actions. In this situation, good old Realpolitik is unavoidable.
@@FrankeNamensKarimwhy? Russia always helped us we dont have any history with the west they always tried to destroy us along with ottomans we are just the colony of the eu they control your economy and everyone is going to west to work because its better to work the lowest jobs in the west than in serbia. In history we are enemies but because you own our economy we have to be like eu "candidate" on paper in reality we will never join and if we tried to shift our economy towards the east eu would just give us sanctions or something
How can EU be soft on Serbia when Serbia has gained nothing from the EU-sponsored negotiations with the break-away region of Kosovo? It's been 11 years since the Brussels agreement and the Kosovo government has not fulfilled a single obligation from the agreement whilst Serbia had fulfilled them all years ago. There were no unilateral actions taken by Serbia in the 16 years since the Kosovo's so called independence proclamation
Kinda a poorly researched video if Kosovo's governments increasing hostility to everyone was just completely ignored. And also really weird how it was danced around the fact that the mine opening is just exploiting 3rd world countries so its kinda ironic that some sort of morality was mentioned when exploiting 3rd world countries in favor of getting resources from china is a discussion.
“Why is the EU so soft on serbia?” My brother in christ we are dying on mass from cancer caused by by the bombs they dropped on us the fuck you mean soft?
@@KingFinnch you should first learn what is genocide, face some facts, learn history a bit more non biased and you will learn that the only people that honestly suffered from centuries long silent genocide are Serbs themselves, you can't send enemy solider dressed in serbian clothes and than blame serbia for its crime... Grow up
As Serb i know that majority of Serbians do not want to join EU anymore. China is everywhere here they are taking over, EU never wanted Serbia in. If EU wanted that Serbia would be EU member long time ago.
If they wanted Serbia into the EU, it would have joined even before Romania and Bulgaria, not even mentioning Croatia, all of which were brought in due to political reasons and not because they completed all the requirements.
@@Bionickpunk Croatia stopped being a fighting side in an armed conflict in 1995. Bulgaria or Romania were not fighting sides anytime during the last 30 years. Serbia was active on armed conflicts until 1999. That makes a difference too.
Germans said also that they dont want to dig lithium because they dont have enough requirements to dig it safely but they really dont care if they make a catastrophy in other countries
5:09 it is a bit surreal to see my hometown here on TLDR News, but there it is, that's the cultural center where I grew up and performed on stage as an actor and dancer. It's also the town where the lithium mine is supposed to be built, just a couple of miles away. Several independent studies have shown that mining would have devastating consequences on the environment and people's health as there is no clean or eco-friendly way to extract lithium from that type of ore. I don't want my hometown to become a toxic wasteland. The Green Deal can only be green if it's green for all of us! BTW, instead of showing the protests in the small towns like my hometown of Loznica, you could have shown footage from the Belgrade anti-mining protest. Estimates of attendance vary between 50K and 120K people, which would in either case land it as one of the top 5 biggest protests in Serbia ever.
neka druže... kad nam više ni sud ne pomaže, moramo sebi pomoći. priseti se kako su hteli oduzeti sva oružja posle školske pucnjave u BG. nije to zbog toga bilo. plaše se naroda, al i ima da se plaše. opet treba isterati govna, i njihovih kolaboranata.
We left Germany / EU two years ago and moved to Serbia. The best thing we ever done. Safe streets, top business oportunities, low taxes and affordable energy prices. Christian coulture and huge ethnic diversity... We are living our Dream. 🥳
The problem is that everyone is talking as if everyone is against Vucic, but that is not the case. The case is that the people who are against him are just lauder than the ones who support him, so it looks like everyone is against him.
Short answer: EU cannot afford to be tougher on Serbia, because it would lose Serbia to Russia and China fully. EU is weakening, while Russia and especially China are strengthening.
Fun fact about Serbia: If you want to work any government job, you must join the ruling party, and attend any anti-protests they ask you to do in order to keep said job. If you're a farmer, joining the ruling party gives you discounts when buying supplies and so on. You see the pattern here on how they win every election. They basically have an army of drones that drops their vote on the day and that's it.
Europe's moral authority??!!🤣🤣🤣That is one conspiracy theory no one belives, outside of the EU of course. Arogant as always, keep it up you are doing great job in promoting BRICS!!
You have got the lithium story all wrong. The biggest lithium miner by far is Australia, followed by Chile then China and lots of small ones. Lithium is pretty common. The problem is most of it has to be sent to China to be processed into batteries. The EU doesn't need a lithium mine in Serbia. It needs a battery factory. The Serbs have a point lithium is a notoriously dirty mineral to extract and process,
Gave it to Albanians? Albanians were there long before Serbians and have always being an ethnic majority. No matter how much Belgrade governments have tried to deport or massacre them since 1917 until 1999.
Please stop bitching about NATO air raids, Sarajevo and Vukovar alone had more tons of bombs and artillery shells dropped by Serbs than Nato did on whole Serbia. NATO also didnt randomly shell hospitals and ppl on food markets, or mass executed wounded from hospitals like you did...
@@DD-qw4fz I would not agree about hospitals,there were more then 30 hospitals hit by NATO bombs ,there is even video on my channel i posted 15 years ago
@@DD-qw4fz NATO dropped 15 tons of deplted uraniaum on serbia, the serbs in bosnia didnt even come close to the damage that NATO did, also what happened in vukovar? Local croats started slaughtering their serbian neighbours and when the serbian army kicks them out, they cry to the west.
Even if we can take everything your saying as true, you do realise that the Serbian state (FR Yugoslavia) had nothing to do with either of those. The countries that fought there were Republica Srpska and Serbian Krajina. Yugoslavia merely supported them with weapons at the beginning before abandoning them. You realise you're equating if texas were to do war crimes with the entirety of the USA doing them. @@DD-qw4fz
The EU leadetship cares about one thing and one thing only: making their position stronger at the expense of the individual member states. It's like a table cutting material from legs and stacking it on top.
Please make a video: Why EU is so soft to Kurti despite his daily harassment of Serbs? Why only words while people are pushed to move? Do your research please… don’t be just propaganda. I can conclude that you are quite bias regarding Albanians in Kosovo.
What harassment? Are you able to name examples or just spout propaganda? Recently the government of kosovo allowed serbian license plates in kosovo, after Serbs continuously rejected these demands. How is this harassment? Serbs have their own municipalities, official language despite only being 4% of the population, and have protected UNESCO heritage sites. How is this harassment?
@@euphoriaggaminghd They are yearly records of direct Albanian attacks against Serbs in Kosovo, both the people and their heritage sites. Only an ignorant person would deny that.
i agree with the entire video, however if you're going to use graphs and data to back up what you're saying, they need to be current. you can't show a corruption index score which finishes in 2016.
As a Serbian I can tell you that this video really correspond to the facts in my country. But there is one more important fact that people should understand, Vucic is also controlled by EU and USA since the 2012 when they helped him to get to power. He was Angela Merkel's puppet (Mutter Angela) back then and now he is puppet of USA Ambassador Christopher Hill who is de facto the ruler of the Serbia, because EU lost power and influence in recent years and also became USA vassal. I'm really against Vucic but so called pro-western opposition is a joke. They try to hide how weak they are by whining about fixed election. Yes there where some problems but Vucic wont mainly because he focus on older people (he is on TV 4 - 6h each day, trust me you can't imagine) who watch TV a lot and easy to manipulate. Pro-western opposition just don't have enough voters because the most of the people just do not want them. EU ratings in Serbia are at the lowest level ever and going down by every stupid decision like lithium, Ukraine, Kosovo and Metohija... etc. We want to be free, independent country, to work and improve our families lives. We want to work with East, West, North and South, but we do NOT want to be a not USA, not EU, not China, not Russian colony. We are fighting for that. P.S. This thumbnail is so fun 🤣
I wonder how the author of this headline would evaluate the hypothetical news from the Chinese state newspaper: Is Russia soft on the EU? Warmongering perhaps?
It depends. From a standpoint that the EU wants to uphold rule of law and western values, yes, they are being too soft. But if you believe that it is in the EU's interest to keep Vučić in power, they're not too soft because they don't want to be. After all, EPP still has Vučić's SNS as a partner, despite multiple elections with shady results taking place and democratic backsliding. We also saw the recent resources agreement to extract lithium in Serbia, something that a real democratic government, given Rio Tinto's track record, would never have agreed on
@@potential_music Hungary is taking away 4 BILLION euros from the EU every single year and is a member state that can BLOCK many things, like EU help for Ukraine. Serbia ain't doing any of those things, cause it CAN'T . It's not an EU member. So there's less EU anger towards Serbia. But, the fact that EU is just letting Serbia destabilise the whole region around it, Croatia, Bosnia and Hercegovina, Montenegro, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Albania, is a big mistake IMO. For example under the influence from Serbia, Montenegrin government turned from a pro EU, pro NATO government, that was pro western for many years and decades up till 2020, to a government that hates Croatia, ruined relations with Croatia and as a NATO MEMBER had some high officials caught giving away some sensitive NATO data to Russia. Serbia is basically giving EVERYTHING it got to successfully RUIN the stability of Bosnia and Hercegovina, Montenegro and Kosovo. EU is staying COMPLETELY SILENT on ALL of this for YEARS now and we in the region, that live in these countries Montenegro, Bosnia and Hercegovina and Kosovo clearly see it and clearly feel it, on our skin and on our back. Serbia got government that's ACTIVELY pushing for new wars in the region. EU can't see NONE of it, just like with Russia vs Ukraine. It took USA military to say Russia will invade Ukraine. EU couldn't see anything about it. Pretty damn useless.
@@davidboskovic6581 the people want to live in peace and maintain a neutrality that will not be hindered by western or eastern powers, there are some brainwashed people of course such as the NKPJ guys who advertise themselves as a "Russian" party but i think we need a Serbian one
Fun fact: Bulgaria is EU country. Romania too. And before migrants come to Serbia, they were in Greece, again EU country. EU has very funny definition of its borders. Whole world could see EU "standards" of dealing with migrants: letting them sink and drown.
As a Greek I love Serbia and I think it's been wronged a lot by the EU and NATO in the past, it's high time they were respected. Serbia is a sovereign nation and I support them 🇬🇷♥️🇷🇸
EU is extremely unpopular in Serbia. "European path" is nowadays just an empty phraze to apease bruxellocrats. Since the EU conditioned the EUaccesion of Serbia by the demand to give up 11% of its sovereign teritory let alone its culture, spirituality and identity China and Russia became more favourable options. The Lithium is a German thing. Your stance is the anglo domination stance sposnored by the NED
The poisoning part is related to the underground water, that water is clean and safe to drink. Opening mines will lead to a ridiculous level of destruction and acid mixing with the clean and safe source of water that isn't being sold by companies. Many people depend on those safe water sources, not to mention that agriculture will be hit by this even further.
@@RedXlV EU Servantes obeyed. Western EU servants, starting with Germany lead that story that began 1912. Lot of history there. Nothing new in US policy, just rewritten from UK, Nazzi Germany, a mix of it. UK, keep them in chaos and rule. Germany, drang naht osten. That's it. Keeping India under control with Pakistan. Iran with Israel. Turkey with Greece and vice versa. Serbia with Albania and Croatia. France with Germany. And so on. Whatever happens nowdays had some pretexts.... PS as an American your "rightfully so" make me laugh. Who on earth you think you are, being American ? If your citizenship is your outmost value it's time to rethink about yourself.
@@RedXlV If the usa keeps meddling with serbia their empire will turn into ash i can assure you that(ask ottoman empire, austro-hungarian empire, shit ask serbian empire) Any empire serbians meddle with turns into ash even their own empire.
You sure about that I mean they don't stop Dodiks seperation retoric that will lead to an war if it hapens, also didn't they sent armed men in to Kosovo but were forced back by the Albanians
No, serbs technically forced Albanians back to Albania, but NATO didnt want a strong Serbia, so they bombed Beograd with Depleeded Uranium and Napalm bombs.@@chaosgamer016_5
@@kushtra24Such a vague and baseless statement. Serbia has no more desire for war, but doesn't mean they will allow the EU and NATO to walk all over them.
The video contains several inaccuracies and misrepresentations that skew the understanding of Serbia's relationship with the EU and the broader geopolitical context. Firstly, while it is true that corruption and the erosion of democratic institutions have been concerns during Aleksandar Vučić's tenure, the claim that Serbia is no longer a democracy is an exaggeration. Freedom House categorizes Serbia as a "partially free" or "hybrid regime," which still implies a form of democracy, albeit flawed. Regarding Serbia's ties with the EU, the claim that the EU has been overly lenient towards Serbia due to its relationship with Russia oversimplifies the situation. The EU has applied pressure on Serbia but maintains a pragmatic approach, balancing geopolitical stability in the Balkans with other strategic interests. The video's discussion of Serbia's lithium projects also contains inaccuracies. While Serbia does have significant lithium reserves, the Rio Tinto project has faced massive public opposition and was suspended, contrary to the video’s implication that it has been fully greenlit. The situation remains complex, and it is misleading to suggest that Serbia is set to become a "lithium colony" for the EU. Furthermore, the video overlooks significant human rights violations against the Serbian minority in Kosovo by Albanians. These violations have included attacks on property, employment and education discrimination, and restrictions on freedom of movement. The EU's additional sanctions against Kosovo were partly in response to these serious human rights abuses, a crucial detail omitted in the video. Lastly, the portrayal of Serbia's role in regional stability is overly simplistic. The EU’s approach to Serbia is multifaceted, involving not just concerns over stability but also economic, environmental, and migratory issues. The video’s narrative that the EU is prioritizing stability over democracy fails to capture the complexity of the situation and misrepresents the EU’s broader strategic interests. Overall, the video presents a biased perspective, using partial truths and omissions to construct a narrative that doesn't fully reflect the reality of Serbia’s interactions with the EU and the broader region.
Excellent summary of a difficult situation. I always look forward to your eclectic choice of topics. The EU has no consistent moral position on anything. Serbia is a dumping ground for lithium mining problems and migration problems, pure and simple. Serbia should not be allowed to join the EU, or else it will have to let all the migrants in. The EU needs a pragmatic country like Serbia to act as a barrier to migrants, by pragmatic that means they have little truck with so-called Human Rights Conventions, and so it is a safe country for most people as illegal migrants aren't allowed to turn Serbia into Sweden with the highest murder rate in the EU. If the EU's senior state, Germany, had a moral position it wouldn't be importing Russian gas, which it still does by the back door. Morals are not an issue in the EU, having a policy and not adhering to it, and imposing it on others, is.
Vucic wins because Serbia is developing in his rule and there is no better alternative. Serbia is more free and safe than most EU countries. Vucic has to submit to EU diktat because he understands the consequences politically.
The year is 2022, the EU cosies up to an autocrat who tyrannises a breakaway enclave in the name of their energy demands. The year is 2024, the EU cosies up to an autocrat who tyrannises a breakaway enclave in the name of their energy demands. Anyone who watched what happened with the EU and Azerbaijan 2 years ago will know this is not only not a surprise but completely consistent with the way EU can just _forget_ about human rights abuses when it's convenient.
EU has different standards from a different reason-they encouraged Albanian separatists in Serbia and supported their independence while opposing it in Bosnia and Ukraine. EU does not respect our territorial integrity so why should we obey their demands? We didn’t impose sanctions against Russia because we depend on their gas and they respect our territorial sovereignty. But note that we support Ukrainian sovereignty and we condemned Russian invasion. Regarding media freedom, Serbia is the only European country where you can freely watch Russian, Chinese and Western media. Vučić states he is a pro Russian but Serbian strategic goal is joining EU and at the end Vučić always does what west and EU demands. And lastly-Serbia is not a dictatorship. Vučić won the election because unfortunately opposition is weak and without and ideas.
Except for the fact that Aliev successfully took back his land and if Vucic tries to do the same they will kill him like they killed Milosevic. So your whole comparison breaks down.
To viewers in Serbia; as an Aussie who sees Rio Tinto in everyday life, do not believe a word Rio Tinto says
Oh we don't, the truth is Serbia is completely corrupt, we the government is, why the EU hasn't sanctioned Serbia is very simple, the EU is funding 70% of that corruption, you see its easy to condemn election fraud, while still financing it, the EU needs the current government, Serbia is a small country, but it is very relevant, that's why even tho they fund Kosovo as well, the current government there is not going with the flow, Kosovo was relevant for its natural deposits, but after 25 years those have declined, so now the deposit "lithium" in this case, is in Serbia, so the tide has turned, the west loves dictators that they can control, it's very simple.
We dont
thank you for your sincerity! all the best to you
Rio tinto is destroying everything around the world to greedy monsters 👻 👽 😢 support Serbians not "vucic " his tractor/dictator and puppet of corruption
Don't worry we know they don't mean well to us. They won't dig.
Whoever is doing the thumbnails has way too much fun
I know right 💀
Yeah I can’t unsee it now
someone please explain
@@Dan-hx6ni The way Vucic and Ursula look at one another + the hearts.
They are both skilled liers
Usa : you said oil ? 🦅🦅🦅
UE : you said lithium ? 🦅🦅🦅
EU*
Eu: did you mean lithium? 🐂🐂🐂🐂🐂🐂🐂🐂🐂
Bolivia: Stay away from my property!
Russia:You said oil?
Usa:Please..EU wait
That thumbnail bruh 💀
Typical Brussels hypocrisy
First of all, how did you come to the conclusion that European policies are hypocritical?
Second of all, how did you come to the conclusion that it's something typical?
Pretending to talk like an intellectual and being cynical does not make you an intellectual. You're a narcissist at most.
Why do you say that?
They are soft becasue this situation suits them.
From Serbia they are getting very cheap labor, cheap exports, good deal with the corrupt Government and all the recourses they can mine for no charge at all.
And all of that without getting new member that they will need to give more money than they are already giving.
TLDR - becasue EU likes money more and they are willing to let people there suffer as long as that is in their interest.
Vucic does almost everything that EU and USA asks them to do, so it is profitable for EU to keep him around. Nobody cares about what serbian people want, anyway
And sacrifice nature for the sake of the migrant scare. Great stuff 🙄
@@FairyCRat More lithium mines means increased use of batteries in electric cars and other green technologies which should be a net positive for "nature", hopefully; its not so black and white.
Clean energy in the west and ravaged nature in Serbia.
Later you can post out of context graphs online and brag how greeb your country is and how the rest of the world had to pick up the slack against pollution.
@@terdragontra8900 There's nothing "green" about batteries made of dangerous chemicals. Furthermore, those batteries get charged by a petrol powered grid in the end.
The answer is simple: Our president bends over on their say-so, letting them do whatever, and in return they let him do whatever
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kratko i jasno
No choice but nothing happened yet.... mining is lithium is impossible without Ganz Europa wird erst in den Niederlanden sauber sein, alles wird. verschmutzt sein, weil es voller aggressiver Säuren, Wasser und anderer Gifte, Metalle ist
I'm from Serbia, and I think that this video sums up the situation pretty well. Just let's not forget that the EU supported Vučić in his rise to power in the early 2010's. Now, they are also supporting him in remaining in power. Most of the people in Serbia just want peace, economic stability and security for people living in Serbia and for Serbs (and others) living in the Balkan region. Lot of young people in Serbia (like me) work for Western companies, and respect EU as an economic partner, but sometimes we feel let down by some EU decisions, like supporting lithium mining in Serbia. One more reason why EU is supporting Vučić which is not mentioned here, is that Serbia is a supplier of ammunition to Ukraine, even though we are labeled sometimes as "Russian ally". I think that at least 80% of the people here do not support war in Ukraine (because we know how it is when you have a war in your country), but when you look at history, sanctions often effect more regular citizens of the sanctioned country, and less it's government.
Serbians are the ones supporting Vucic to remain in power. Yes he is an authoritarian figure, but he remains in power because he was elected in fair elections
Bravo za komentar! I am also from Serbia and this comment adds more value to the discussion. Serbia is generally considered a Russian ally which is true to a degree, but not entirely. Many Serbs disagree with Russia's foreign policy but keep the good traditional and brotherly relations with Russian people. We've also always had good relations with Ukrainians, especially since many Soviet liberators from Nazi occupation during WW2 were Ukrainians. Serbian and Ukrainian languages are more alike than Serbian and Russian even! Serbs help Ukrainians in the conflict by supplying them with ammo but we also know well that sanctions won't help ordinary Russian people, hence we do not impose them. We are for the people and against any war and illegal occupation of sovereign territories, which we've also experienced with illegal occupation of Kosovo and self-proclaimed independency by ethnic Albanians. I felt the need to comment this given the majority of foreigners do not have the complete picture and get their sources of information from anti-Serb and biased western media.
Sadly you're wrong about one thing. Most people support Russia in Ukraine, because they're Russophiles or because they simply want to support whatever is opposite to the west, since most Serbians blame the war on NATO and US, rather than Russia
@@nemanjakukic4519 četo if you didnt want Kosovo to seceede u shouldnt Have had to fire 2/3rds of Kosovo Albanian workers and make Serbian the official language.
Politicians of the EU countries and overall EU institutions are responsible for their constituents first and foremost. They have absolutely no reason to take into consideration anything that affects people of Serbia, be it positive or negative. In their minds, it is of course good that THEIR companies economically colonize other countries and take over the markets, that filthy industry is moved to countries other than their own, and that they exploit cheap workforce that someone else can offer.
For them to think otherwise would be, frankly, idiotic. It would go against the interest of people that elected them.
Which is why western countries in general never shied away from supporting dictators and autocrats - those are very good in keeping the order in countries in question and keeping the decision making to a select few corrupt individuals instead of a people's assembly where some deals might fall through. They don't want autocrats in THEIR societies, but they are more than willing to support them elsewhere as long as it benefits them.
When it no longer does, then "democratic revolution" follows, supported by those same countries. And it usually happens once the autocrat they supported all those years thinks they can say "No" to a request issued.
And in case of Serbia specifically, if we talk about its population - 80% of it does not want to deal with the EU. They want their money, they want their quality of life, but they don't want their societal organization, respect of law and order (or, more correctly, they want it only when it benefits them - otherwise, they like when they can get ahead with a bit of corruption) and their principles of governance. They are also heavily brainwashed over the course of the decades to like not even Russia in general, but Putin and his government explicitly. And while you are correct, majority of people would like the war to end, that same majority thinks Russia is in the right here and should win the war... pardon, "special military operation".
Before the Russian invasion of Ukraine happened, this was pretty much the case here in Hungary
The EU did complain about Orbán being an autocrat and holding back EU decisionmaking and whatnot, but we were just SO GOOD at providing cheap labor for Western companies that they couldn’t stay angry at us
You know, Western values and all that
Sadly you are right... Moral stances seem to be only applied when convenient...
They are angry because they cannot control Hungary.
Still better than Eastern values of blatant tyranny and oppression.
@@Cancoillotteman Better than NEVER applying moral stances like your Ruzzian friends and financers.
well... you know.... (anarcho-) capitalism is one of those Western values
4:30 Rio Tinto is Anglo-Australian not american
The big part of Tinto's assets is owned by USA holding corporations.
It is not American, but it has the full support of the American ambassador, who is alfa and omega in Serbia.
@@Visoki89 Not gonna say who, as we all know it's Vanguard and Blackrock
It's Chinese. The bigest shareholder is China aluminium corp
These guys have only cosmetic World knowledge
Море, си Сај те га и ви и ваша ЕУ. Далеко вам лепа кућа била.
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The issue with supporting leaders that backslide on democracy, is that any short term stability gained, is payed for with long term stability.
The purpose of checks and balances is that it allows you to throw out incompetent leaders, after all.
Lol if EU and USA didn't want him there, he wouldn't be there. Serbia is not sovereign since 1999.
True, it kinda reminds me of Putin years ago when he took over Crimea, the west was too soft on Putin, so he took his chances and invaded all Ukraine.
Dictators or wannabe dictators only understand one language, and that's much tougher measures against them that makes them think twice about their actions, appeasement or soft touch doesn't work, it emboldens them to want to take more.
Both the EU and US needs to get their act together in a world that is becoming more hostile and unstable, they need to start doing what's right and create more stability before things get out of hand, otherwise, things could escalate quite quickly that drags us all in it, and with the rise of the far right in Europe and North America, we might have already left it too late by being too soft with appeasement, I mean serious, the likes of Putin, XI and others are playing games, trying to divide us and manipulate us, Putin has been very successful at that in both the EU and US over the last decade, and all we've done is give him a slap on the wrist for it.
Some might not realise it but war has already started with two camps against each other with Putin trying his best to divide the western camps in the EU and US and has been quite successful on that, XI trying to divide the EU away from the US, and then we have all the other pawns in many countries being used.from Serbia to Hungary and so on.
The EU is NOT democracy
Saying hi from Hungary - Merkel basically used us for car manufacturing, let Orbán do his thing with corruption in exchange for us poorer workers to make cars for Western EU.
14 years later and we are the next Greek crisis.
@@vanjamenadzerOnly a typical "yellow", pro-NATO traitor, who would sell his mother for one bloody dollar, printed without cover, can say that.
It is funny how Serbia is a so small country but still so important.
It has always been very important: location, history/culture, position, accessibility to diverse regions, transit by land, transit by river, bridge east-west (from Roman empire till 2024)... It is not without reason that it was conquered by many empires long before our times. Country that undergoes that pressure is anything but unimportant.
@@AristantPotander Conquered, but still standing ;)
If there was no Serbs, at least half of Europe would be muslims today
Serbia is a great example what happens to you when you are in the middle of Europe and you refuse to join NATO and EU (kind of). ... nothing. Absolutely nothing happens to you. Nobody invades you, nobody forces you, nobody sanctions you. Russian trolls would have you believe that NATO somehow invades countries and forces them to join.
Irony of a western person speaking about democracy and freedom. Go fix your backyard first
I can not overstate how much the EU can go eff itself.
A bit of fact-checking. Vučić and Scholz did not sign an agreement but a memorandum of understanding, which is not a legally binding act.
Rio Tinto is a UK-Australian company, not Anglo-American.
And finally: after many EU countries elected populist governments in prior years, what exact values are we talking about? Suddenly lithium is more important than freedom of speech, independent media, and an independent judicial system?
Legally binding, etc. are hocus pocus words used to instill an illusion of some supposed legal protection independent of politics, and is complete utter bullshit, issues concerning geopolitics and energy security are dealt with by the security state apparatus, that cares not for any law gods or mans. The only thing of note here is public support for the project by the highest EU representatives.
All Anglos are of a piece, and Americans are Anglos.
Colonial resource extraction, natural and human is the main function of western countries since the dawn of capitalism and European colonialism centuries ago, every single aspect of society is subordinate to it. And that will continue until western imperialism and fascism stands utterly destroyed or until its endless greed leads to the destruction of global human society, most likely via climate change.
@@Luka-zf2ye "All Anglos are of a piece, and Americans are Anglos." lmao
Very good points on the question of what freedoms and values are we actually defending.
@@bicker31your so called anglo australian is owned by 89% anglo american ppl lol
@@meteorknight999 how many hrs do you have to work to afford the coke for your posts to make sense lil bro
What arrogant language.
Who is the EU to go soft or hard on anyone not violating any international laws
Those who give milions of euros for "democratisation" and accept to play by certain rules that they then decide to disregard. Are you naive? Pride is fine, but be realistic as well.
@@Ms777Lena
What "millions"?! Ordinary Serbs have nothing good out of those "millions"! Those millions go mainly into the pockets of Serb NGO's to keep in check corrupt PUPPET regime and to INDOCTRINATE Serb population !
It is money reserved also for propaganda and active Western- OCCUPATION of Serbia. Because Western secret services and corrupt puppet politicians from Serbia need help of those NGO's to totally control all Serb media and keep Serb society under their control.
@@Ms777Lena giving millions after they ruin the country bffr
@@Ms777LenaAnd jet the same people who gave said money are okey with Vucic selling Serbia to Rio Tinto, and police brutality towards non-white immigrants (bcs russians once we r cool with)? Lets face it, EU gives no shit about Serbia, if it did it would support democratic fight against Rio Tinto, not prioritising its own ass by sacrificing Jadar.
@@Ms777Lenathere's no choice... I'm sorry
Countries like Serbia are independent only de jure. De facto, those countries are banana republics ruled by foreign powers... Bulgaria is the same parody. It doesn't matter if there is an autocratic rule or democracy... You do what you are told to do...
That can never change. A small country can only do so much on its own. It's got to either pick a side, or try to maintain a balancing act between major powers like Serbia is doing right now. The problem with that is that it can be incredibly risky. At the end of the day, it's about doing what needs to be done, in order to extract as much value for the nation as possible.
Vucic only goal is to stay in power so he want every support he can get,from west ,from Russia,Chines..so they will give them anything they want
@@bobi6191 the EU has to evolve into a federation to make things more simple for everyone.
@@dzonikg Bulgaria is making 7th elections 3 years. People know that voting is pointless and they simply do not vote. Those countries are always a clown fiesta.
@@pavlinpetkov8984 Yes many in Serbia also just gived up voting ,i still vote but many off my friends dont .They just say i dont care
As a Serbian who is opposed to lithium mining due to obvious environmental concerns, it's very disappointing that the EU and EC have disregarded the will, health, and ecology of a European nation for a small geopolitical gain (remember, it is expected that lithium car batteries will be obsolete in about 10 years). It tells me that the EU is getting desperate.
And I've seen the same things happen in my country over the decades and, trust me, when politicians get desperate, they tend to disregard the well-being of their own nation in a blink of an eye. Seems to me that the EU is getting there (and that too brings me concern since we always thought if the situation in Serbia gets any worse, we'll move to somewhere else in Europe, but desperate times seem to be upon the EU).
i mean EU and governments in general exist for the purpose of facilitating the continuation of the economy, the return of investment these days is low, and gaining new venues for profit helps delay certain crisises that tend to pop up every 50 years, EU in general is ran for the facilitation of investment, trade and profit. it doesnt really matter if you are disregarded as EU will still be doing its job.
The EU protects the EU members. It is very likely that a democratically elected leader wouldn't allow lithium mining. Due to it being unpopular. But we need it desperately to meet our future needs. So we are sacrificing one country for the good of the many. Hope you understand and thank you
@@Kage-jk4pj you are sacrificing lives of one nation for what good of many? So that you can have electric cars? You absolute prick. You will not mine here!
@@Kage-jk4pj Didn't seem like it during the migration crisis. Didn't seem like it when Greece's debt repayment was used to save German banks (see interview with Varufakis). And it definitely won't seem like it in 10 years when/if the EU becomes more desperate. Hope you'll have such a positive outlook when the mines open in your backyard, my co-European friend.
Democracy is in crisis globally, so this was to be expected. Unfortunately everything you said is true, but Serbians should understand that no one can help them other than themselves. I am sure you are familiar with Balkan mentality, it is always someone else responsible, someone else to blame for everything bad that happens, someone else destroyed Yugoslavia from the outside while Yugoslavs just enjoyed smelling the flowers on the field, and those sorts of things.
Serbians must think for themselves, they should take the responsibility for the situation they are at the moment, and then start solving it. This means that they need to understand the chronology of everything, which means that they should not have got into this situation in the first place, and just then think about bad moves from the EU.
They should start talking about why they were in the situation to be bombarded in 1999 instead of playing a victim. They should stop selling their votes for a bag of sugar and bottle of vegetable oil, they should stop being depoliticised and act like politics is a filthy word, they should learn about democracy and why it is a much better system than autocracy.
So much things to do, blaming the EU and international community for not being consistent comes in the end after you did everything you could on your own.
Because they know that they forcibly took part of Serbia's territory against all international rights, and time will tell what kind of mistake they made.
The thumbnails is just getting wild
The Serbian people feel deeply betrayed by the European Union, starting with the EU's approach to Kosovo, which they believe overlooked their concerns. This sense of betrayal was further intensified by the EU's position on lithium exploration, where many Serbians feel their national interests were disregarded. The situation worsened with what the Serbian people see as the EU’s willingness to recognize (last) elections that they believe were rigged in a country where press freedom is severely restricted. To many, these actions signal a broader pattern of disregard for their sovereignty and democratic values.
The only thing I agree with you is on the EU's approach to Kosovo. It was a mistake to recognize Kosovo as an independent state. As a Romanian, we continue to refuse this outcome and will bar Kosovo from any international institutions until there is a proper settlement agreed upon by Serbia as well on this matter.
In regards to the lithium exploration and exploitation, on the long term this will be beneficial for the Serb people. It will create jobs, it will bring a lot of money due to foreign investments and the value of the resource is high, thus an important source of income for the Serb state.
The elections in Serbia might've been rigged in some specific areas, but overall they were not. Vucic and his party won by a large margin, which makes it almost impossible to be rigged. There is no proof that elections were rigged at a mass scale. The opposition in Serbia is pure clown fiesta, so no wonder the average Serb doesn't bother voting for them.
Why do you care about a seceded territory, when you cannot get your own governments functioning properly?
This is all true but I don't care about what the Serbian people think tbh, no more than I care what bloodthirsty Israeli citizens think about how much they want Palestinians to suffer
@HT-vd4in because the government pivots to blaming Kosovo for their incompetency whenever they're in hot water
The fact they look same thing Crimea and Kosovo as a separate and not exactly the same thing is classic European audacity.
Crimea is Ukraine. Russia occupied Ukrainian territory.
Kosovo is Serbia. It is occupied Serbian territory.
As a Serb who is against Vucic's traitorous policies, I am still missing to understand why do you think anyone from EU should sanction my country? EU takes out of Serbia in between 3-5 billion euros and the trade between EU and Serbia severely favours the EU so I think that EU should keep its mouth shut.
@WSINHКина је 20x јача од ЕУтаназије!
@WSINH EU benefits far more from trade with Serbia than Serbia benefits from the EU. They directly push their companies, flooding the Serbian market. Not to mention Serbia is a transit country, they rely on Serbian autoways and railways to connect with Greece and Turkey (cause Romanian and Bulgarian infrastructure is pathetically disjointed). They also have a lot of benefit from selling their old industry thats no longer compliant with EU laws into Serbia, and can directly chuck any unwanted migrants to Serbia because its the closest non-conflict nation outside of the EU. Frankly you know nothing about how the EU enforces its colonial behavior onto Serbia.
As a Danish Bosnian, trust me brother, they just don’t want the Balkan to shine, they don’t want you to buy and work with the Chinese, they want you to buy our products only. As long it’s like this, don’t join the EU, for your own and the greater good.
EU's "moral authority", almost splurted water out the nostrils at that comedic relief moment
Lmao, its crazy how often our media outlets make fun of the east for falling for propaganda and then people say shit like eu moral authority. It feel like a joke, we are falling for propaganda more often than most of the world it seems, and everybody here is clueless to it
EU is NOT soft on Serbia.
When EU starts using the same standards they use on Ukraine then we can talk.
😂😂😂😂😂 macron selling 12 aircraft to a non nato member ,this is europe everyone for their business
@@nido1691 Read again what you wrote here, out loud and then google again who else operates these aircraft.
Hahaha, who's talking about rules of law and freedom of speech?
😂 “Soft” is a soft word. Blackmailing from EU is having impact on all spheres of life in Serbia. Sooooo, wrong headlines buddy.
I mean parts of Europe where tough on Serbia over a 100 years ago and it didn't go to well.....
this kind of 'softness' won't go unpunished either, I can assure you.
This video assumes that Serbia is a colony, so it must be "punished" if it does not follow the EU's foreign policy and dictates. I thought this channel was promoting democracy and democratic values, but clearly, it is not.
I thought that freedom of choice in the context of creating foreign policy was in the true spirit of democracy, but TLDR seems to believe that stronger countries have the right to bully and punish smaller countries if they are not complying with their foreign policy agenda.
By promoting "punishment" as a normalized way of treating other countries, TLDR is turning into a colonial propaganda tool, which is very sad given that the channel has some good content.
It always was a propaganda tool. It just wasn't as obvious at times.
"the true spirit of democracy" regards the internal organization of a country; it has nothing to do with foreign policy. And btw, as the founding principle of democracy is 'rule of the majority', small countries' interest is (right) to bow before the interest of the more. For small countries to avoid this, the solution is to stop being small, either by conquering (rarely feasable) or by federating with your neighbours into one (!) bigger democratic state. The EU's goal is (was?) just that.
@@NAYRUthunder99 I'm not sure I understand your argument. We are talking here about an independent country that refuses to become a satellite state or colony of a much bigger system-the EU. Freedom of choice is a key value of the democratic spirit that this channel seems to be promoting, and I do not understand how it should be ignored when applied in the context of foreign policy. Democracy goes beyond the internal organization of the state; it is a value system.
Regardless, promoting punishment or any other form of aggression towards another country to force it into changing its foreign policy is barbaric.
Rather, it assumes that the EU's foreign policy should be based on the EU's own interests rather than those of Serbia. And questions whether appeasement of the Vučić regime is actually in the EU's interest.
@@strahinjalekic836That's truth in kindergarten. There is no such thing in the real life and there never was. Romans were killing them. Now the do it too. The job of the politics is to position your country in the map, has some good back and look how to use others. They use you for something and that's good as long as you get your share too.
I love how democracy is measured not by freedom of individuals or accountability of the government but by freedom of massive powerful and wealthy institutions. Really shows you who matters to the powers that be
Yes, 'democracy' is whatever western politicians and bureaucrats want!
So called "our democracy"
Dang, maybe voting for parties which want less bureaucracy can actually change this…
This video is pure propaganda, the EU has never been soft on serbia.
So air raids are now considered soft. 1999 never forget, never forgive
Should not have commited ethnic cleansings then.
@@skatesuperbaby There was no ethnic cleansing, even NATO admitted as much
@@skatesuperbabyClassic western response
Sorry but the genocide will stop !
No country should have commited atrocities - and yet they all did. That is the our gruesome history, as the world.
And then an imperialist power, probably much worse than any small one, like NATO, will push it's propaganda to make people comply with their interests (like bombing Belgrade... or Palestine).
The best thing a person (American, Albanian, German, Serbian, Russian...) can do about it is to not be stupid, and always doubt the govt.
@@skatesuperbaby
Bro speaking about democracy
Second later: Serbia should be sanctioned because it did not sanction Russia, we have a right to do whatever we want, we don’t respect the rules that you try to give us
Yes bro
Sanctions against russia, north Korea and Iran but no sanctions against Israel - typical western moral🤷
So stupid and hypocrite
its sad but in terms of self determination, neither the west or east seem to give a shit
They won't sanction us cause they made Vucic sell Serbian weapons to Ukraine dont worry Davide!
Colonies are not only found in Africa
Serbia is not an EU member, so the EU has nothing to do with it. If they have any sense, they won't join.
Wrong, they can't directly influence things as much as they could if they were in the EU, but the EU has chosen to do more and more business with the country thus providing more income to it. Thing of how China has grown since since 1980s when the USA and the world decided they are going to be their manufacturing hub.
@@maszlagma The EU decided, Serbia decided otherwise. The EU is not the only option for them, and they are not forced to accept their decisions.
Trust me we won’t join. Serbia doesn’t need nor wants the EU. Apart from maybe some corrupt politicians who are bribed by the westerners. If anything seems more like EU at this time can’t live without us. Because they nonstop bring us up. We want to live our lives and choose whoever we want to be friends with etc. Time EU minds it’s own business.
They won't join don't worry.
@@Syrenia1552don't worry signorina.. We won't join that rainbow flag union. Rest of the Europe can obey to their masters... We won't.
Hahaha, after supporting wars against Serbia in 1990s, supporting Kosovo's independence since 1998, and bombing in 1999, the EU is indeed sooo soft on Serbia 😂Cant imagine how it would be if you are a bit rougher
Yeah I wonder why was it like that (ethnic cleansing)
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serbia has done a holocaust in Kosovo in 1999! Don’t talk if you don’t know the history but you just read rts and b92
@@metimetti156 It´s 2024. The Kosovo war 1998/99 has strong similarities with the Palestine-Israel conflict. Like Hamas UCK started massacring Serbs and then Serbia did exaggerated revenge on the Albanian population of Kosovo similar like Israel does. For some reason Israel gets supported with weapons while Serbia was bombed and some part of their country split off against all international laws.
@@metimetti156Holocoust? What are u talking there are no more Serbs on Kosovo becouse u kill all people down there. Now its 95% Albanians? West kick my people from my south part of my country.
Da li je EU demokratija, ne bih rekao.
nazi eu
Ah democracy, ...what a nice word for the West to hide behind. To the 3rd World they are worse than Zillion Hitlers
Ne da nije nego je sama Demokratija nemoguća bez zakona a to je onda nesto drugo međutim EU je po Cenzurom zbog svega što se dešava i kako se ne bi saznalo da nema više ničega, nema proizvodnje sve je stalo i samo je Univerzalni dohodak neko rešenje u moderno doba komunizam.
Short answer: lithium
As a Serbian
a) if you want to talk about EU being soft on candidates lets talk about Romania and Bulgaria how they are fast tracked into EU and why.
b) we would just switch one semi democratic regime with another that center is in Brussels not in Belgrade
c) and again as a Serbian I hope we will NEVER EVER be part of EU. Everyone in Serbia that thinks we would be equal with people of western Europe is nuts. We do not belong there in same country with them. I challenge one Serbian to show one moment in our history when they were our friends and didn’t try to exploit us! Look just Rio Tinto . Germany has 2 or 3 times as much Lithium as Serbia. Why they don’t mine there? And what we should do tomorrow? Go to Brussels to demonstrate??? Wake up Serbia NEVER EVER EU!!!
European union is a failed project, most of their countries are full of NATO(read USA) military bases, which basically means they are vassals to the real empire(USA). The western europe leaders(read parties) are just doing everything they can to stay in power(basically what every corrupt piece of shit leader in the balkans does)
10000% istinu, bre
cap most young serbs wanna join EU stay mad Loser
1) I was told that it was because the US pressured Romania to be part of the EU, and if Romania was joining, Bulgaria had to join too as it was then performing similarly as Romania in terms of candidacy requirements.
@@paulojrneto what requirements????
I will not even watch this, soft on Serbia? Soft on Serbia? When, WHEN?
Serbia supports Russia and its philosophy, which is anti-EU.
Because balkan is finally colony of west as you wanted since dawn of time
Why would anyone want the balkans? Is there resources there? Are you sure the West didn't just want to stabilize the region's tensions for smoother trade and profits?
@@dingus6317 Yes, certainly there are resources: mining (minerals, metals), people (workforce), location, rivers (major European river flows through capital), road-lines, transit, logistics. Serbia has a unique location and all superpowers have always been around monitoring (I don't think that is without reason). Maybe for you EU people it has been presented as not important but I bet many of you have no clue where your comfortable lifestyles come from and who pays for it. I would argue that there are more resources in Serbia than in many EU states. Mining would lead to devastation of the country and displacement of people and people simply do not want it. That includes many of Serbs that are pro-civil society, pro-rule-of-law. They work for western companies and cherish all values that are nurtured in EU, However EU behaves completely opposite way towards Serbia helping its autocracy to stay in power.
@@dingus6317 me when I'm brainwashed into thinking that any government wants to help people:
@@engineer695 I mean, they are financially benefiting by stabilizing the region and allowing business to go on as normal so their helping is not entirely out of altruism, right? I seriously am unaware of any mineral or resource deposits in the region, and I thought the populations were heavily ideologically divided and sparse, that is why I asked. I also thought the geography was mountainous and difficult to traverse, so was confused on what the west would value in the region. In my schooling in America, we weren't taught much about the Balkans besides it being the start of WW1 and then if your class has time, a bit about the collapse of Yugoslavia and the bombing of Serbia in the 90s. Most of what I have learned about the region has been through playing games and my own research sadly. Serbia is heavily tied to Russia, so maybe the conflict in the 90s was another proxy war like what is going on in Ukraine now? With the middle east the poppy and oil fields made things more obvious at least, even if the initial claim was about WMDs lol..
@@dingus6317 You should read about Balkan Peninsula during Middle Ages (medieval times) as well as Kingdom of Yugoslavia after WW1 and Socialist Yugoslavia after WW2 1945-1990.
Yes, it is a bit softer than Nazi Germani or Indenpendent state of Croatia. Maybe, because Vucic is building/legitimizing Albanian drug mab parastate in southern part, not because EU is better than them.
Neither EU wants Serbia as their member nor Serbia wants to join EU, so this relationship of love and hate for now is the best solution.
the people feel no love for the EU, or Vučić nonetheless. this will result in a big wave of hate, and will bring such turmoil that the whole balkans will feel it.
WRONG!
EU wants Serbia but without Serbs only! (similar to situation with Russia)
Serbia wants to join EU since 2006, tf are you on about?
EU is just using that as an advantage to make Serbia it's lithium mine.
@@Adro_YT
Don't explain to us what do we want you ignorant t w @ t. It is a fact that majority of the Serbs does not want Serbia in EU.
Maybe because the EU forces Serbia to recognize Kosovo independence as part of its join clause in the EU, directly going against its sovereignty. It would be exactly like if Ukraine was demanded to recognize Crimean Republic and Donbas Republic before joining the EU.
The thumbnail is so funny, bruh. x'D
As a Serb, this is a pretty accurate video tbh. Literally a situation of "I scratch your back, you scratch mine." :O
Only 45 countries imposed sanctions on Russia while 151 countries did not! Should we impose sanctions on all 150 countries? Serbia has BRICS as an alternative to EU due to its great geographic location and by enjoying friendly terms to the rest of the world!
With all due respect, EU is not soft on Serbia. I wish the West was this ‘soft’ on every country out there…
As a Serb I can say we don’t want to be part of EU no matter what or gov does.
It's kind of funny how, despite it's size, Serbia always manages to have geopolitical sway comparable to a major or great power
Because of their strategic geopolitical location
Since when?
It's because we maintain balance between great powers and dont just listen too one of them and go against others that are rivals with it. That allows us to always have the alternative if one side tries to pressure us to much.
Kosovo is practically independent, most of the gas comes from Russia, and Serbia (and the rest of the Balkans tbh) are slaves of the west, just look at the attempt of Germany to pollute Serbia by opening lithium mines so their car industry can keep up with the Chinese. Such wow, much sway.
You are delusional. They just want cheap workers and continue with the contamination bcs Yugoslavia did this all over the places and Serbs were eager to (well they were also fine with Slovenia leaving) continue with that failed proyect that they started several wars. Good for Serbia that things have changed and their guess was wrong at least in the sense they prefer having clean enviroment.
Soft? And threats of sanctions if we don't do as they say? For Kosovo, they forced us to agree to everything, but when Kurti was supposed to do his part, he just said no. If Kurti was in Paris and waited like a fool for no one to show up, Serbia would be under sanctions for not respecting the agreement, etc. But no, it was the President of Serbia who waited like a fool and got nothing and the EU didn't do or say anything. They threatened us with sanctions because we wanted to be neutral regarding Ukraine because that is what we want to be neutral and good with everyone. Then they forced us to sell ammunition to someone in the EU, it was never said who bought it, and sent it to Ukraine, and then their media told Russia that we were abandoning them. They are fighting for freedom, and there is no such freedom anywhere. They are saviors but when someone doesn't do as they want they immediately threaten? Freedom is when every country can say and do what it wants, which is exactly what Orban is trying to do, but they constantly trample him because they don't want him to have his freedom.
There are so many lies in this comment, please delete it
@@klantong9097 prove me that i lie if you have eggs
Slowly, each of them will have their own Kosovo. Look at UK :)
@@stratilat79 i saw just videos but i belive is much worse
The main problem here is that the EU is simply too WEAK to make consistent political decisions. On the one hand it is confronted with aggressive Chinese (economic) and Russian (military) actions, on the other hand it is increasingly dependent on the increasingly unfriendly USA because of the Chinese/Russian actions. In this situation, good old Realpolitik is unavoidable.
The vast majority of Sebs do not want to join EU anymore.
So there's that.
I doubt that
@@FrankeNamensKarimwhy? Russia always helped us we dont have any history with the west they always tried to destroy us along with ottomans we are just the colony of the eu they control your economy and everyone is going to west to work because its better to work the lowest jobs in the west than in serbia. In history we are enemies but because you own our economy we have to be like eu "candidate" on paper in reality we will never join and if we tried to shift our economy towards the east eu would just give us sanctions or something
@@FrankeNamensKarimdon't doubt it. Dude just told you and can confirm it.
@@FrankeNamensKarim можеш да нам поопушиш к, do you dobut that nazi puppet?
@@metamorfoza7656 Well said брате мој.
How can EU be soft on Serbia when Serbia has gained nothing from the EU-sponsored negotiations with the break-away region of Kosovo? It's been 11 years since the Brussels agreement and the Kosovo government has not fulfilled a single obligation from the agreement whilst Serbia had fulfilled them all years ago. There were no unilateral actions taken by Serbia in the 16 years since the Kosovo's so called independence proclamation
Says the serb...
@@attilaabonyi8879It's the facts, look it up
@@attilaabonyi8879 Look it up
Haahahhahaah who says that rts or b92 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Googling isn't hard, try it
Kinda a poorly researched video if Kosovo's governments increasing hostility to everyone was just completely ignored. And also really weird how it was danced around the fact that the mine opening is just exploiting 3rd world countries so its kinda ironic that some sort of morality was mentioned when exploiting 3rd world countries in favor of getting resources from china is a discussion.
“Why is the EU so soft on serbia?” My brother in christ we are dying on mass from cancer caused by by the bombs they dropped on us the fuck you mean soft?
Why your country has killed so many civilians in Bosnia and Kosovo? Why is normal for your country to commit genocide and holocaust on civilians??
try not doing a genocide next time
@@KingFinnch you should first learn what is genocide, face some facts, learn history a bit more non biased and you will learn that the only people that honestly suffered from centuries long silent genocide are Serbs themselves, you can't send enemy solider dressed in serbian clothes and than blame serbia for its crime... Grow up
@@KingFinnch What genocide? The one in Srebrenica? Because that had nothing to do with 1999 bombing. So please educate yourself.
They are soft on Vučić, as he is working for them. Togerher, they are destroing Serbia on all levels
The answer is ""Serbia is a mining colony of the West".
As Serb i know that majority of Serbians do not want to join EU anymore. China is everywhere here they are taking over, EU never wanted Serbia in. If EU wanted that Serbia would be EU member long time ago.
If they wanted Serbia into the EU, it would have joined even before Romania and Bulgaria, not even mentioning Croatia, all of which were brought in due to political reasons and not because they completed all the requirements.
@@Bionickpunk Croatia stopped being a fighting side in an armed conflict in 1995. Bulgaria or Romania were not fighting sides anytime during the last 30 years. Serbia was active on armed conflicts until 1999. That makes a difference too.
"Somewhat of a reliable partner..." Now, that's a sentence!
Germans said also that they dont want to dig lithium because they dont have enough requirements to dig it safely but they really dont care if they make a catastrophy in other countries
5:09 it is a bit surreal to see my hometown here on TLDR News, but there it is, that's the cultural center where I grew up and performed on stage as an actor and dancer. It's also the town where the lithium mine is supposed to be built, just a couple of miles away. Several independent studies have shown that mining would have devastating consequences on the environment and people's health as there is no clean or eco-friendly way to extract lithium from that type of ore. I don't want my hometown to become a toxic wasteland. The Green Deal can only be green if it's green for all of us!
BTW, instead of showing the protests in the small towns like my hometown of Loznica, you could have shown footage from the Belgrade anti-mining protest. Estimates of attendance vary between 50K and 120K people, which would in either case land it as one of the top 5 biggest protests in Serbia ever.
neka druže... kad nam više ni sud ne pomaže, moramo sebi pomoći. priseti se kako su hteli oduzeti sva oružja posle školske pucnjave u BG. nije to zbog toga bilo. plaše se naroda, al i ima da se plaše. opet treba isterati govna, i njihovih kolaboranata.
European 🇪🇺 Union has become a joke that no one takes them seriously nowadays
Nato bombed them 26 years ago and occupies part of their country to this day. I don't think that counts as being soft?
People are generally uneducated and lazy to make some research before they make conclusion about something.
We left Germany / EU two years ago and moved to Serbia. The best thing we ever done. Safe streets, top business oportunities, low taxes and affordable energy prices. Christian coulture and huge ethnic diversity... We are living our Dream. 🥳
EU so Soft on Serbia? Hahahahah. No one wants EU here after all these years what we have seen. Thank you have a good one!
The problem is that everyone is talking as if everyone is against Vucic, but that is not the case. The case is that the people who are against him are just lauder than the ones who support him, so it looks like everyone is against him.
How the hell is the EU soft on Serbia? What planet is this guy on?
exacly... as someone from there, i think TLDR news smoked some substance and wrote the title
kad pogledas i jeste, al pojedinci kao ti glume zrtvu non stop.
Peobanly because they are catering to him. They are giving Serbia more money than any other Balkan country.
@@plaqueshine
jhedi gofna
Short answer: EU cannot afford to be tougher on Serbia, because it would lose Serbia to Russia and China fully. EU is weakening, while Russia and especially China are strengthening.
EU is a democracy 🤣🤣🤣 No one was chosen, everyone was placed like Kamala Harris in the USA. We see democracy on the streets of the UK these days.
Fun fact about Serbia: If you want to work any government job, you must join the ruling party, and attend any anti-protests they ask you to do in order to keep said job. If you're a farmer, joining the ruling party gives you discounts when buying supplies and so on. You see the pattern here on how they win every election. They basically have an army of drones that drops their vote on the day and that's it.
Europe's moral authority??!!🤣🤣🤣That is one conspiracy theory no one belives, outside of the EU of course. Arogant as always, keep it up you are
doing great job in promoting BRICS!!
"Anglo-American mining company Rio Tinto", Anglo-American is a completely separate mining company, Rio Tinto is Anglo-Australian
You have got the lithium story all wrong. The biggest lithium miner by far is Australia, followed by Chile then China and lots of small ones. Lithium is pretty common. The problem is most of it has to be sent to China to be processed into batteries. The EU doesn't need a lithium mine in Serbia. It needs a battery factory. The Serbs have a point lithium is a notoriously dirty mineral to extract and process,
Soft? 🤣🤣🤣 They took a huge chunk of Serbia and gave it to Albanians.
And on top of it all, they never stopped to screw us!
Albanians beat you out of it lil orc 😂😂😂
@@Albaner-GamerNATO beat us out of it you subhuman shqiptard.
And stopped the genocide in the first place.
Gave it to Albanians? Albanians were there long before Serbians and have always being an ethnic majority. No matter how much Belgrade governments have tried to deport or massacre them since 1917 until 1999.
Also we (people from Serbia ) don't think that EU is soft for Serbia. Bombing us isn't soft, don't you think?
Please stop bitching about NATO air raids, Sarajevo and Vukovar alone had more tons of bombs and artillery shells dropped by Serbs than Nato did on whole Serbia.
NATO also didnt randomly shell hospitals and ppl on food markets, or mass executed wounded from hospitals like you did...
malo si pogresio temu brt
@@DD-qw4fz I would not agree about hospitals,there were more then 30 hospitals hit by NATO bombs ,there is even video on my channel i posted 15 years ago
@@DD-qw4fz NATO dropped 15 tons of deplted uraniaum on serbia, the serbs in bosnia didnt even come close to the damage that NATO did, also what happened in vukovar? Local croats started slaughtering their serbian neighbours and when the serbian army kicks them out, they cry to the west.
Even if we can take everything your saying as true, you do realise that the Serbian state (FR Yugoslavia) had nothing to do with either of those. The countries that fought there were Republica Srpska and Serbian Krajina. Yugoslavia merely supported them with weapons at the beginning before abandoning them. You realise you're equating if texas were to do war crimes with the entirety of the USA doing them. @@DD-qw4fz
Short answer: Yes
Long answer: Yes
U EU ne postoje ni izbori!! Da li je to demokratija😂
Dont believe any word from Rio Tinto and the EU.
The EU leadetship cares about one thing and one thing only: making their position stronger at the expense of the individual member states. It's like a table cutting material from legs and stacking it on top.
Please make a video: Why EU is so soft to Kurti despite his daily harassment of Serbs? Why only words while people are pushed to move? Do your research please… don’t be just propaganda. I can conclude that you are quite bias regarding Albanians in Kosovo.
What harassment? serb settlers in Kosovo don’t even pay bills nor taxes it’s all funded by the state of serbia
What harassment? Are you able to name examples or just spout propaganda? Recently the government of kosovo allowed serbian license plates in kosovo, after Serbs continuously rejected these demands. How is this harassment? Serbs have their own municipalities, official language despite only being 4% of the population, and have protected UNESCO heritage sites. How is this harassment?
You fellers never learn it ain't a Serbian just because some Serbs live there 😂
@@euphoriaggaminghd They are yearly records of direct Albanian attacks against Serbs in Kosovo, both the people and their heritage sites. Only an ignorant person would deny that.
i agree with the entire video, however if you're going to use graphs and data to back up what you're saying, they need to be current. you can't show a corruption index score which finishes in 2016.
I am serbian and I dont care about eu. Kosovo is Serbia 🇷🇸!
And always will be
And? Come to kosovo ill show you serbia, gypsy blood.
Keep dreaming
Have you seen what happened in monastery last year?
Then why have the majority population there always been Albanians?
As a Serbian I can tell you that this video really correspond to the facts in my country. But there is one more important fact that people should understand, Vucic is also controlled by EU and USA since the 2012 when they helped him to get to power. He was Angela Merkel's puppet (Mutter Angela) back then and now he is puppet of USA Ambassador Christopher Hill who is de facto the ruler of the Serbia, because EU lost power and influence in recent years and also became USA vassal.
I'm really against Vucic but so called pro-western opposition is a joke. They try to hide how weak they are by whining about fixed election. Yes there where some problems but Vucic wont mainly because he focus on older people (he is on TV 4 - 6h each day, trust me you can't imagine) who watch TV a lot and easy to manipulate. Pro-western opposition just don't have enough voters because the most of the people just do not want them. EU ratings in Serbia are at the lowest level ever and going down by every stupid decision like lithium, Ukraine, Kosovo and Metohija... etc.
We want to be free, independent country, to work and improve our families lives. We want to work with East, West, North and South, but we do NOT want to be a not USA, not EU, not China, not Russian colony. We are fighting for that.
P.S. This thumbnail is so fun 🤣
I wonder how the author of this headline would evaluate the hypothetical news from the Chinese state newspaper:
Is Russia soft on the EU?
Warmongering perhaps?
It depends. From a standpoint that the EU wants to uphold rule of law and western values, yes, they are being too soft. But if you believe that it is in the EU's interest to keep Vučić in power, they're not too soft because they don't want to be. After all, EPP still has Vučić's SNS as a partner, despite multiple elections with shady results taking place and democratic backsliding. We also saw the recent resources agreement to extract lithium in Serbia, something that a real democratic government, given Rio Tinto's track record, would never have agreed on
Јаоо сећам се тебе па ти си она фукара са твитера хахаххаха
Let the British teach you about the democracy!!
Funny how they treat Hungary harsh but they treat Serbia softly despite both being Russian allies
Serbia is not an ally of Russia
@@Espoomait is and will be forever. ask the people. the people will decide in the end anyway. just google Tito's partisan movement.
@@potential_music Hungary is taking away 4 BILLION euros from the EU every single year and is a member state that can BLOCK many things, like EU help for Ukraine. Serbia ain't doing any of those things, cause it CAN'T . It's not an EU member. So there's less EU anger towards Serbia. But, the fact that EU is just letting Serbia destabilise the whole region around it, Croatia, Bosnia and Hercegovina, Montenegro, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Albania, is a big mistake IMO. For example under the influence from Serbia, Montenegrin government turned from a pro EU, pro NATO government, that was pro western for many years and decades up till 2020, to a government that hates Croatia, ruined relations with Croatia and as a NATO MEMBER had some high officials caught giving away some sensitive NATO data to Russia. Serbia is basically giving EVERYTHING it got to successfully RUIN the stability of Bosnia and Hercegovina, Montenegro and Kosovo. EU is staying COMPLETELY SILENT on ALL of this for YEARS now and we in the region, that live in these countries Montenegro, Bosnia and Hercegovina and Kosovo clearly see it and clearly feel it, on our skin and on our back. Serbia got government that's ACTIVELY pushing for new wars in the region. EU can't see NONE of it, just like with Russia vs Ukraine. It took USA military to say Russia will invade Ukraine. EU couldn't see anything about it. Pretty damn useless.
@@davidboskovic6581 the people want to live in peace and maintain a neutrality that will not be hindered by western or eastern powers, there are some brainwashed people of course such as the NKPJ guys who advertise themselves as a "Russian" party but i think we need a Serbian one
We are not in the EU team and we have right to be neutral. What right would they have to be harsh or soft or anyhow considering Serbia?
Fun fact: Bulgaria is EU country. Romania too. And before migrants come to Serbia, they were in Greece, again EU country. EU has very funny definition of its borders.
Whole world could see EU "standards" of dealing with migrants: letting them sink and drown.
Can EU members stop for one time to talk about Serbia what can or what can not do. Leave me alone here. You think i dont wanna normal life here?
As a Greek I love Serbia and I think it's been wronged a lot by the EU and NATO in the past, it's high time they were respected. Serbia is a sovereign nation and I support them 🇬🇷♥️🇷🇸
Thank you my Greek brother in Christ.
I love you, dear friend!❤
EU is extremely unpopular in Serbia. "European path" is nowadays just an empty phraze to apease bruxellocrats. Since the EU conditioned the EUaccesion of Serbia by the demand to give up 11% of its sovereign teritory let alone its culture, spirituality and identity China and Russia became more favourable options. The Lithium is a German thing. Your stance is the anglo domination stance sposnored by the NED
The poisoning part is related to the underground water, that water is clean and safe to drink. Opening mines will lead to a ridiculous level of destruction and acid mixing with the clean and safe source of water that isn't being sold by companies. Many people depend on those safe water sources, not to mention that agriculture will be hit by this even further.
reinforces the hypocrisy of the EU
Soft ?
EU taken away Kosovo and Metohija from Serbia, you call that soft ?
Bro what are you smoking ?
It wasn't the EU that did that, it was the USA. (And as an America, I say rightly so.) And the EU is imposing sanctions on Kosovo, not on Serbia.
@@RedXlV EU Servantes obeyed.
Western EU servants, starting with Germany lead that story that began 1912.
Lot of history there. Nothing new in US policy, just rewritten from UK, Nazzi Germany, a mix of it.
UK, keep them in chaos and rule.
Germany, drang naht osten.
That's it.
Keeping India under control with Pakistan.
Iran with Israel.
Turkey with Greece and vice versa.
Serbia with Albania and Croatia.
France with Germany.
And so on.
Whatever happens nowdays had some pretexts....
PS as an American your "rightfully so" make me laugh.
Who on earth you think you are, being American ?
If your citizenship is your outmost value it's time to rethink about yourself.
@@RedXlV If the usa keeps meddling with serbia their empire will turn into ash i can assure you that(ask ottoman empire, austro-hungarian empire, shit ask serbian empire) Any empire serbians meddle with turns into ash even their own empire.
@@RedXlV as an American - it's none of your business bro, except if you are military that seeks job overseas
🎵Od Bihacha, do Petrovtsa sela
Srbska zemlja napadnuta cela... 🪗
The whole world has been soft on England since beginning of history
Because Serbia is a neutral country and not really threatening anyone?
You sure about that I mean they don't stop Dodiks seperation retoric that will lead to an war if it hapens, also didn't they sent armed men in to Kosovo but were forced back by the Albanians
just almost all its neighbors, but it's not that important
No, serbs technically forced Albanians back to Albania, but NATO didnt want a strong Serbia, so they bombed Beograd with Depleeded Uranium and Napalm bombs.@@chaosgamer016_5
@@chaosgamer016_5If Dodik is a separatist, so is Kosovo.
@@kushtra24Such a vague and baseless statement. Serbia has no more desire for war, but doesn't mean they will allow the EU and NATO to walk all over them.
Because Serbia is an EU colony. He does what they ask from him, like in any colonial government.
Fake News. Serbia is a Chinese colony.
More like the EU is an African colony. How the turntables...
The video contains several inaccuracies and misrepresentations that skew the understanding of Serbia's relationship with the EU and the broader geopolitical context. Firstly, while it is true that corruption and the erosion of democratic institutions have been concerns during Aleksandar Vučić's tenure, the claim that Serbia is no longer a democracy is an exaggeration. Freedom House categorizes Serbia as a "partially free" or "hybrid regime," which still implies a form of democracy, albeit flawed.
Regarding Serbia's ties with the EU, the claim that the EU has been overly lenient towards Serbia due to its relationship with Russia oversimplifies the situation. The EU has applied pressure on Serbia but maintains a pragmatic approach, balancing geopolitical stability in the Balkans with other strategic interests.
The video's discussion of Serbia's lithium projects also contains inaccuracies. While Serbia does have significant lithium reserves, the Rio Tinto project has faced massive public opposition and was suspended, contrary to the video’s implication that it has been fully greenlit. The situation remains complex, and it is misleading to suggest that Serbia is set to become a "lithium colony" for the EU.
Furthermore, the video overlooks significant human rights violations against the Serbian minority in Kosovo by Albanians. These violations have included attacks on property, employment and education discrimination, and restrictions on freedom of movement. The EU's additional sanctions against Kosovo were partly in response to these serious human rights abuses, a crucial detail omitted in the video.
Lastly, the portrayal of Serbia's role in regional stability is overly simplistic. The EU’s approach to Serbia is multifaceted, involving not just concerns over stability but also economic, environmental, and migratory issues. The video’s narrative that the EU is prioritizing stability over democracy fails to capture the complexity of the situation and misrepresents the EU’s broader strategic interests.
Overall, the video presents a biased perspective, using partial truths and omissions to construct a narrative that doesn't fully reflect the reality of Serbia’s interactions with the EU and the broader region.
How can Serbs be minority in Serbia (Kosovo province)?
I thought Albanians are minority in Serbia.
@@milostomic8539 Well in Serbia yes, but in its province Kosovo and Metohija they are a minority as I said.
Excellent summary of a difficult situation. I always look forward to your eclectic choice of topics. The EU has no consistent moral position on anything. Serbia is a dumping ground for lithium mining problems and migration problems, pure and simple. Serbia should not be allowed to join the EU, or else it will have to let all the migrants in. The EU needs a pragmatic country like Serbia to act as a barrier to migrants, by pragmatic that means they have little truck with so-called Human Rights Conventions, and so it is a safe country for most people as illegal migrants aren't allowed to turn Serbia into Sweden with the highest murder rate in the EU. If the EU's senior state, Germany, had a moral position it wouldn't be importing Russian gas, which it still does by the back door. Morals are not an issue in the EU, having a policy and not adhering to it, and imposing it on others, is.
bro got these informations straight from mcdonalds
Vucic wins because Serbia is developing in his rule and there is no better alternative. Serbia is more free and safe than most EU countries. Vucic has to submit to EU diktat because he understands the consequences politically.
The year is 2022, the EU cosies up to an autocrat who tyrannises a breakaway enclave in the name of their energy demands.
The year is 2024, the EU cosies up to an autocrat who tyrannises a breakaway enclave in the name of their energy demands.
Anyone who watched what happened with the EU and Azerbaijan 2 years ago will know this is not only not a surprise but completely consistent with the way EU can just _forget_ about human rights abuses when it's convenient.
EU has different standards from a different reason-they encouraged Albanian separatists in Serbia and supported their independence while opposing it in Bosnia and Ukraine. EU does not respect our territorial integrity so why should we obey their demands? We didn’t impose sanctions against Russia because we depend on their gas and they respect our territorial sovereignty.
But note that we support Ukrainian sovereignty and we condemned Russian invasion.
Regarding media freedom, Serbia is the only European country where you can freely watch Russian, Chinese and Western media.
Vučić states he is a pro Russian but Serbian strategic goal is joining EU and at the end Vučić always does what west and EU demands.
And lastly-Serbia is not a dictatorship. Vučić won the election because unfortunately opposition is weak and without and ideas.
Especially germany, always blind when the Crimes are commited by one of the 2 ruling countries
Except for the fact that Aliev successfully took back his land and if Vucic tries to do the same they will kill him like they killed Milosevic. So your whole comparison breaks down.
The year is 2024 and you still eat up propaganda and don't dare to think of any other possibilities.