Color revolution is not applicable in Serbia for couple of reasons. First, he is the main western player. Second, almost all of the opposition are western players and are, in a fact, fake opposition which just served to keep him in power. He is ongoing color revolution himself. But seems that literally everyone had enough of him. So, now we have situation that the real opposition, which are small, mainly traditionalistic and nationalistic, out of parliament and without any media except internet, are OK with fake pro western opposition, just to do anything to take Vucic down and to dismantle the "thug and thief" system which rules in Serbia for 35 years now, and which is perfected during Vucic.
I have to say that I cannot go into detail on internal political issues about Serbia but perhaps a view on the geopolitical-economic position will help to explain the extent of foreign interests in Serbia and the region, at least for me it has given me a good guide
Since the war in Yugoslavia it has been known that George Soros (Eaglecrest) controlled gold mines in the region, now the mining interests coming from the Balkans have aroused the greatest interest and are known as the
Balkan Gold Rush.
A project is underway in Serbia to extract the so-called ‘white gold’ or lithium, coveted for the development of the digital and renewable economy. The deposit found (at the time of the former Yugoslavia) will be extracted by the Australian company Rio Tinto (one of Tony Blair's sponsors), according to the prospections it would be the second largest mine in the world at 100 km from Belgrade and it is estimated that 58 thousand metric tons per year (20% of the European demand until 2028) will be a great treasure at the gates of Europe...
Germany is keen to buy lithium for the electric car industry, with plans to produce fifteen million electric vehicles by 2030. It appears that mining in Serbia does not comply with the required environmental regulations, which is why the local population together with environmentalists have opposed the project.
The claim that Serbia reaches a high level of transposition of EU environmental acquis, but a low level of implementation, is just partly true. A significant portion of the EU environmental acquis is not transposed or not to full extent. Despite the clear obligation to transpose and implement the Environmental Impact Assessment Directive (2014/52/EU) by the 1 January 2019 it is not transposed yet. The same is true for the Environmental Liability Directive (2004/35/EC) which should establish the framework for the application of the “polluter-pays” principle.
Although the Serbian government had presented a green light for the mining project to go ahead, Rio Tinto had also reverted to the position it was in before the government stopped the project in January 2022. This means that for lithium mining in Serbia the environmental costs of the green transition would be outsourced to a non-EU country.
This has to do with the issuing of European bonds by the European Central Bank that, thanks to green and sustainable policies, force states (blackmail), in this case the Serbian people, to buy debt bonds and make them pay so that they have no chance to benefit from their own resources, a method (trick) that at the moment is also being done in Latin America with gold and lithium mines.
The Serbian government has passed a draft law confirming the loan agreement between the EU and the Republic of Serbia. It is for an amount of up to 1,131,090,929.77 euros, with a repayment term of 40 years, with a ‘grace period’ of ten years, meaning that repayment of the principal starts in 2034 ‘and is evenly distributed in equal payment amounts over the remaining maturity period’.
The Western Balkans Reform and Growth Facility includes EUR 6 billion for the whole Western Balkans region, of which EUR 2 billion in grants and EUR 4 billion in concessional loans for the period 2024-2027.
As the National Assembly has to approve the agreements creating financial obligations for the Republic of Serbia, the Government of Serbia, at its session on Thursday 5 December, approved the ‘Draft Law on the Confirmation of the Loan Agreement between the European Union, represented by the European Commission, as lender, and the Republic of Serbia, as borrower, and the National Bank of Serbia, as fiscal agent of the borrower, under the Reform and Growth Facility for the Western Balkans’.
It is then foreign investors who receive these incentives worth millions of euros to create dubious jobs by paying slave labour.
Thus, wealthy Serbian families or foreign companies may repeatedly question the existence of the state in their (well-publicised) statements and actions, but they make fortunes from public contracts with the same state.
How does the lack of public debate in the polarized society in Serbia affect the lithium mine project? What should be the priorities of the Serbian state administration and International partners when it comes to such a large and environmentally risky investment?
Credible reports developed by the European Commission, the US Department of State and independent think-tanks witness serious problems regarding the independence of the judiciary, restrictions on free expression and the press and serious government corruption. The responsible institutions are not capable of guaranteeing the application of rule of law standards in environmental matters. Moreover, key political actors are among the main generators of polarisation and intimidation of their opponents. Under the present circumstances, the Serbian authorities cannot guarantee un-bias and evidence-based public dialogue about such important issues as the lithium exploitation.
The particular interests of the clique of investors and their NATO army are obvious, because it is also about reducing and controlling mineral inputs from China and Russia, as well as obtaining returns. This I believe is the great interest in the whole Balkan region and especially in Serbia.
By pretending to make an environmental, social-political or whatever ‘Lithium Revolution’, they only seek to motivate a military intervention that they themselves will control either by generating fear-deception in the population or just because they can.
Only the Serbs will save Serbia, but at the moment there are many pressing non-Serbian interests and I hope with all my heart that this will change and that would be a great joy for all of us.
Beograd, Slavija, protest.
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EU's collaboration with Serbia’s Aleksandar Vučić to access lithium risks undermining citizen trust in accession to the EU project.
www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu
Развој догађаја: 19:20 Студенти окупљени испред Скупштине су се разишли и вратили на своје факултете. Од сутра се настављају протести и блокаде на улицама, универзитетима и средњим школама. 18:40 Велики број студената је сада испред Народне скупштине. Све више људи пристиже на плато испред...
srbin.info
A government U-turn on a blocked lithium mining project immediately followed by an agreement to supply the EU with critical raw materials has triggered a wave of protest across Serbia. #EuropeNews
www.euronews.com
Serbia's lithium mining project in Jadar has been on hold because of mass protests against feared environmental damage. Now the EU wants to secure this lithium access for Europe - despite the political and legal conditions in Serbia.
www.boell.de
The European Union loves boasting about its green agenda. But its plans rely on electric vehicles — and a push for lithium mining in Serbia, which would outsource the environmental costs of the green transition to a non-EU country.
jacobin.com
Students and farmer unions organised the rally against populist President Aleksandar Vucic at a central square in Serbia's capital Belgrade on Sunday.
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