Greater Serbia

Serbia has celebrated a new national day of unity, amid concerns from neighbours in the western Balkans.

On Wednesday, Belgrade kicked off the holiday with a display of military power and calls for all Serbs in the Balkans to unite under one flag.

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and European Council President Charles Michel at an EU-Western Balkans meeting in Brussels, February 2020. Photo: EPA-EFE/VIRGINIA MAYO/POOL.

Visiting Montenegro this month for the funeral of a senior Serbian Orthodox bishop, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic stopped by the 'Serbian House' in Podgorica, founded in 2017 and opened in 2019 to promote Serbian science and culture in a country where 30 per cent of people identify as Serb.

This law violates certain rights and principles, and I do not understand why there is no more criticism in Europe and the world over that Djukanovic's legal act, a journalist said last night.

After war veterans called for a boycott of Serbian singers at a music festival in Croatia's capital, Zagreb, a leading analyst said that such hard-liners had become more important than they should be in Croatian society.

Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic says the story about "the Greater Serbia aggression" on Croatia is - a great lie.

Dacic - speaking while presenting contracts to give Serb refugees from Croatia 302 packages of building material - said that a film about them that had been screened "shows how great a lie the 'Greater Serbia aggression' is."

Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic says the story about "the Greater Serbia aggression" on Croatia is - a great lie.

Dacic - speaking while presenting contracts to give Serb refugees from Croatia 302 packages of building material - said that a film about them that had been screened "shows how great a lie the 'Greater Serbia aggression' is."

Montenegro's NOVA party, which represents the large Serbian community in the country, will participate in drafting Vucic's proposed 'survival of the Serbian nation' declaration, alleging discrimination and political pressure by the Podgorica authorities.

Historical evidence demonstrates that genocide and ethnic cleansing were perpetrated upon the Serbian population of Kosovo and Metohija, first by Ottoman Turks, then by Albanian leaders and the populace and continued throughout the Communist period, during which the ethnic Serbian population was forced to emigrate.

A UN court has found Serbian political leader Vojislav Seselj not guilty of crimes against humanity and war crimes in the Balkan Wars of the 1990s.

The Hague-based institution has ruled that the defendant is not responsible for any of the nine counts in his indictment.