In addition, a new channel arrangement on the SBB platform is in effect as of today. By decision of the new owners e&PPF Telecom Group, TV Nova is now in position 8, while N1 is available in position 10.
Ovde možete gledati uživo TV Nova i N1 iz dijaspore
United media omogućila je gledanje ovih televizijskih kanala za građane u dijaspori.nova.rs
"We expected that the moment the new channels were taken over, we would also be on the basic Yettel platform on the same day and that those viewers would also be able to see us due to exclusivity. That did not happen and we want to know why and whether our visibility was suspended in some way. If we agreed and contracted like that, we want to see that it is not a perfidious reduction of our visibility," Božić points out, stating that the question arises whether there is any pressure not to do it or to do it more slowly.
Technically, he says, we saw that it was not a big request, recalling that in one hour 45 new channels appeared on the SBB network.
Democracy for sale? Why the EU must break with Serbia's Vučić
The recent student-led mass protests in Serbia have shown the EU’s cooperation with the country's president Aleksandar Vučić to be deeply misguided. The EU must realise that Vučić can no longer offer stability.
Vučić has enjoyed relative support from the European Union since he came to power in 2014. Criticism of his regime has been muted despite his crackdowns on media freedom, manipulation of election results through ballot-stuffing and importing of voters from neighbouring Bosnia, close relations with China and Russia, and a lack of progress on relations with Kosovo.
As the EU has ignored these concerns to maintain political stability in the Balkans by working with president Vučić, political scientists have satirically labelled Vučić’s regime a ‘stabilocracy’.
The EU’s relative silence on the recent protests has been deafening for liberals and pro-Europeans in Serbia.
Here is a peaceful protest movement that is calling for the development of a European-style democratic government in Serbia. The European Parliament has made statements in support of the protests.
But the EU has not followed up with any practical support. Compare this to the Maidan uprising in Ukraine in 2014, when the EU responded by banning visas and freezing the financial assets of those it deemed responsible for the violence. It also prohibited the export of equipment to Ukraine that could be used by the government for "internal repression."
Democracy vs minerals
The EU’s support for Vučić is now widely perceived in Serbia to be a quid pro quo for a corrupt mining deal.
Anglo-Australian mining conglomerate Rio Tinto has been trying for years to mine lithium - essential to producing electric car batteries – in Serbia’s Jadar Valley.
In response to mass protests against the proposed mining deal between the Serbian government and Rio Tinto in 2022 just before an election, the government declared that the project was over. Then, after another election in 2024 (Vučić likes to hold snap elections about every two years to keep everyday politics mired in campaigning rather than governing), the Constitutional Court suddenly declared that the 2022 annulment of the deal was unconstitutional. The decision showed that the judiciary serves the interests of president Vučić.
Days later, outgoing German chancellor Olaf Scholz, vice-president of the European Commission in charge of the Green Deal, Maroš Šefčovič, and representatives of car manufacturers BMW and Stellantis signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on a strategic partnership on the Jadar lithium mining project.
The peculiar way that elections, a decision of the constitutional court, and the MoU were all signed within days makes the EU complicit in Vučić’s corrupt undemocratic manoeuvre to get the deal done.
Written statements that the mining operation will conform to EU environmental standards are not believed in Serbia, where the government and private companies regularly flout domestic environmental laws.
Also, the environmental impact of lithium mining has proven too controversial to tap into Germany’s own reserves – seemingly confirming Serbs’ suspicions that lithium mining is fundamentally incompatible with European environmental standards.
The mining deal is regularly portrayed in Serbia as a colonial project - lithium for BMW in return for a polluted country and a richer President using his money to further strangle democracy. It seems the EU is happy to have a dictator on their doorstep if German car makers get lithium to make electric cars that Serbs cannot afford. Think of it as the EU’s equivalent of Trump’s minerals deal with Ukraine.
Public support for EU membership has steadily fallen in Serbia in recent years.
EU backing for the protesters might have swayed some Serbs back towards the EU. Instead, for many Serbs, the EU’s hypocrisy has been confirmed.
Democracy is the most important thing unless there are precious minerals to be had.
Vučić's exit or democracy's demise
Vučić’s supposedly stable regime is weaker than ever. Pro-European liberals and pro-Russian ultra-nationalists alike have participated in the protests.
The Serbian president and his SNS party, supposedly a centre-right party, have lost Serbia’s farmers. He has lost military veterans. Vučić’s choice is clear – pursue genuine reform and lose power or become more authoritarian, more pro-Russian and pro-Chinese and turn Serbia into a Balkan Belarus.
There is a clear way for authoritarian dictators to shore up their popularity – starting a war. We’ve seen it with Putin, and the wounds of the conflict of 1990s are still raw in Serbia.
Even civil unrest within Serbia would likely spill over into neighbouring countries given that they contain Serbian minorities.
If the EU stands for democracy rather than just for lithium, it must take a new position in Serbia soon. Support for Vučić is no longer support for stability if it ever was.
Democracy for sale? Why the EU must break with Serbia's Vučić
If the EU stands for democracy rather than just for lithium, it must take a new position in Serbia soon. In the wake of student-led mass protests, support for president Vučić is no longer support for stability if it ever was, writes political analyst Luke Bacigalupo from Belgrade.euobserver.com
Danica Grujičić on Macut: My experience is that the Government and ministers do not decide on anything
Former Minister of Health Danica Grujičić said that she fears that the person in charge of forming the new government, Professor Đuro Macut, will not be able to do much, just as she could not, because in her experience, the Serbian Government does not decide on anything.
"Honestly, based on my experience, I'm afraid they won't be able to do much. Maybe Đuro Macut will have a chance to do much more than me. I wasn't a member after all. They very quickly declared me someone who doesn't understand what politics is, who simply won't listen," Grujičić said on Insajder Television.
She added that "mostly, after six months in office, they started bypassing her with decisions."
"So my experience is that the Serbian Government does not decide on anything, ministers do not decide on anything, these are minor matters that we can make an independent decision on," said Grujičić.
She assessed that one of the main problems in Serbia is decades of party-based employment in public administration. Due to party recruitment and incompetence, according to Grujičić, citizens are increasingly losing trust in institutions.
"We have learned, quite simply, that people who are not competent come to the head of institutions. And then you doubt everything. And I think that is the reason why there is such a big rebellion in Serbia," she said.
Speaking about the events at the protest in Belgrade on March 15, Grujučić stated that she "did not hear anything, since she was on Mekenzijeva Street."
"However, I heard a statement from my colleague Professor Vojvodić from neurology, he wouldn't have made it up if people were coming in with certain symptoms. He is an extremely experienced neurologist and someone who can accurately assess whether someone was faking or not. There may have been some faking, but when a patient comes to you with any problem, you have to rule out all organic causes, and if you've ruled out organic causes, then psychogenic causes, and only then say: 'Listen, you're a fraud,'" said Grujičić.
"Only someone who happened to take the Hippocratic Oath could just tell people that they learned it like a song," she emphasized.
Grujičić stressed that it was unacceptable that Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić, Health Minister Zlatibor Lončar and the media visited those injured in a disco fire in North Macedonia on March 17.
"It is truly unacceptable that anyone from outside should enter the intensive care unit, especially where people with burns are lying. The rooms where patients with burns are lying have a special type of pressure, so that air from the outside cannot enter those rooms, and they were built in the new building of the Emergency Center of the Clinical Center of Serbia," said Grujičić.
Danica Grujičić o Macutu: Moje iskustvo je da Vlada i ministri ne odlučuju ni o čemu
Bivša ministarka zdravlja Danica Grujičić izjavila je da se plaši da mandatar za sastav nove vlade profesor Đuro Macut neće moći mnogo toga da uradi, kao što ni ona nije mogla, jer po njenom iskustvu Vlada Srbije ne odlučuje ni o čemu.
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"Serbia in the Russian World, Color Revolution, Vučić Coming to Moscow...": Full Conversation Between Patriarch Porfirije and Putin Released (VIDEO) - Nedeljnik
The official website of the Moscow Patriarchate of the Russian Orthodox Church has published the full recording of the conversation between Russian President Vladimir Putin and the Patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church Porfirije. The meeting was also attended by Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and...
The Russian Patriarch on current and historical relations between Russia and Serbia:
"Patriarch Kirill: Dear Vladimir Vladimirovich!
I am very glad that this meeting has taken place and that it will continue.
Among all the local Orthodox Churches, the Serbian Church is the closest to the Russian Church — culturally, linguistically. And even historically: our countries have never fought against each other, and if we ever did go to war, it was only side by side against a common enemy.
This love for Russians, for the Russian people, for the Russian Church — it is organically woven into Serbian culture and the Serbian people. So for us, they are our closest friends, our brethren — in spirit and in worldview. This matters a great deal, both when we discuss problems together and when we meet on pan-Orthodox platforms. The Serbian Church is our closest Church. And I say this not just because the Serbian Patriarch is sitting here, but because it is true.
Then if we look at history, the Serbian people and the Serbian Church have never betrayed Russia. Some Slavic nations — I won’t name them — under the influence of powerful Western militarist forces changed their orientation for a time, later repented, but still changed. The Serbs never did. This love for Russia is, one might say, embedded even in the genetic makeup of the Serbian people.
All of this greatly influences inter-church relations. We are always like-minded. And when discussions arise in pan-Orthodox forums, you always feel the support o
On the other side, opposite to the balanced, positive speech of Russian patriarch Kiril, is speech of Serbian patriarch. He actually was whining on "colored revolution", in a-la Vutchich style, at the religious visit when there was not a place or the time for that. Russian patriarch and Putin didn't mentioned that in their answers in a single word, and remained well balanced. It is interesting to watch Putin's facial expression after he heard Serbian patriarch."Serbia in the Russian World, Color Revolution, Vučić Coming to Moscow...": Full Conversation Between Patriarch Porfirije and Putin Released (VIDEO) - Nedeljnik
The official website of the Moscow Patriarchate of the Russian Orthodox Church has published the full recording of the conversation between Russian President Vladimir Putin and the Patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church Porfirije. The meeting was also attended by Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and...
The Russian Patriarch on current and historical relations between Russia and Serbia:
"Patriarch Kirill: Dear Vladimir Vladimirovich!
I am very glad that this meeting has taken place and that it will continue.
Among all the local Orthodox Churches, the Serbian Church is the closest to the Russian Church — culturally, linguistically. And even historically: our countries have never fought against each other, and if we ever did go to war, it was only side by side against a common enemy.
This love for Russians, for the Russian people, for the Russian Church — it is organically woven into Serbian culture and the Serbian people. So for us, they are our closest friends, our brethren — in spirit and in worldview. This matters a great deal, both when we discuss problems together and when we meet on pan-Orthodox platforms. The Serbian Church is our closest Church. And I say this not just because the Serbian Patriarch is sitting here, but because it is true.
Then if we look at history, the Serbian people and the Serbian Church have never betrayed Russia. Some Slavic nations — I won’t name them — under the influence of powerful Western militarist forces changed their orientation for a time, later repented, but still changed. The Serbs never did. This love for Russia is, one might say, embedded even in the genetic makeup of the Serbian people.
All of this greatly influences inter-church relations. We are always like-minded. And when discussions arise in pan-Orthodox forums, you always feel the support of the Serbian Church."
