ECFR 150d ago

Serbia’s “faceless” movement has one clear demand: rule of law. The Novi Sad railway-station roof collapse on November 1, 2024 was a tragedy with deep-rooted causes: years of declining living standards, entrenched #corruption, and institutions that wouldn’t act. #Students and #citizens built a movement with no leaders, no party flags, no long agenda, just a unifying call for the state to “do its job.” The slogan said it all: “the steel roof is above all our heads.” To keep the coalition broad, the movement avoids polarising issues (EU/Russia, #Kosovo, culture-war topics) and channels energy into plenums: open, direct-democracy assemblies that scaled from campuses to cities. Skepticism about #elections (seen as easily manipulated) pushes the focus to concrete institutional accountability first. More on RE-ENGAGE: https://re-engaging.eu/ Luka Filipović: Research Associate at the Institute for Contemporary History in Belgrade, Serbia #Serbia #SerbiaProtests #Belgrade #NoviSad #EU #Russia #RuleOfLaw #CivicActivism #Democracy #Geopolitics #REENGAGE