French President Emmanuel Macron will visit Serbia in April, where he will meet with Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić.
Macron’s visit was agreed last night during his telephone conversation with Vučić, the Serbian president announced on Instagram and added that he believes that friendship and partnership with the French citizens of Serbia brings great benefits.
“We discussed all aspects of bilateral cooperation between France and Serbia, as well as the European path of our country. We both emphasized the importance of further improving our relations and accordingly agreed to meet in April this year,” wrote Vučić on Instagram.
Macron announced on the X social network that he had discussed bilateral issues with Vučić and on that occasion reiterated that he wants Serbia to progress on the European path.
“We discussed bilateral issues and made a cross-section after his recent contacts in Brussels. I repeated to him my wish that Serbia continue to advance on its European path,” Macron wrote on the X social network.
For more than four months, Serbia has been rocked by student protests that have blockaded 60 faculties of four Serbian state universities, while Vučić accuses the student movement of retarding Serbia’s economic progress with four months of protests, swaying foreign investors, and intimidating tourists who refuse to visit Serbia due to the crisis.
The blockade of the faculty was directly instigated by violence after the students of the Belgrade Faculty of Dramatic Arts, who were silently honoring those killed in the fall of the canopy at the Novi Sad railway station in November, were attacked by supporters and local officials of the Serbian Progressive Party in the municipality of Novi Beograd. Fifteen mostly young people died in the accident, and a 19-year-old man, the 16th victim, died on March 21.
Reactions continue in Serbia after the latest incident on Saturday, when an unknown woman attacked the dean of the Faculty of Philosophy in Niš, Natalija Jovanović, with a knife and injured her hand, threatening to throw acid on her during the “Under the Magnifying Glass” protest held on Saturday.
Thus, on Monday, the extended rector’s college in Belgrade requested an urgent reaction from the competent authorities and the taking of measures to ensure the prevention of violence against members of the academic community and other citizens who peacefully protest and express their beliefs and attitudes.
As previously announced, the Serbian president should start consultations on the election of the new government of Serbia today, because the mandate of the government, which is currently in a technical mandate, officially ended on March 19, while the legal deadline for the election of the new government is April 18.
The President of Serbia is obliged to dissolve the National Assembly and call for extraordinary parliamentary elections, which should be held within 45 to 60 days, which is the beginning of June, if a new government is not elected by April 18.
