Guy Delaunay
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Prime Minister Miloš Vucevic said that he was resigning not in response to the protests or the blockade as such, but rather in response to an attack on some students in Serbia's second city, Novi Sad, because overnight some students were there putting some stickers on
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US judge temporarily blocks Trump's freeze on federal funding
near the building which houses the local office of the governing progressive party, and people emerged from that building and attacked the students, and one of them, the least, was hospitalised with a suspected broken jaw.
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US judge temporarily blocks Trump's freeze on federal funding
And Mr Vucevic said this was not acceptable, that he was going to be resigning in order to calm the passions that had arisen in Serbia, and called on people to return to dialogue.
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US judge temporarily blocks Trump's freeze on federal funding
She's trying to make it seem like he's doing the honourable thing and not responding to any of these protesters' acts of pressure on him. But I don't think anybody's going to be particularly fooled by that.
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US judge temporarily blocks Trump's freeze on federal funding
No, there's no evidence for it whatsoever, but they have been doing their best to make out that these things have been happening. So, for example, last week they deported people from a number of different European countries, including several from neighbouring Croatia. And all of those people had been attending a workshop for non-governmental organizations in Belgrade.
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US judge temporarily blocks Trump's freeze on federal funding
They were removed from Serbia by the internal security forces on the grounds that they represented a threat to the security of the country. And this has been part of a narrative which has been building up for weeks.
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US judge temporarily blocks Trump's freeze on federal funding
that's been emanating from the Progressive Party and Mr Vucic that somehow the protests, even though at various points we've had more than 100,000 people on the streets of Belgrade, for example, in one protest just before Christmas, that somehow these protests weren't indigenous, that they were imposed externally or stirred up by external powers, that they weren't a true representation of
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US judge temporarily blocks Trump's freeze on federal funding
of the feelings of a large section of Serbian people. It's obviously a move which is attempting to appeal to both the progressive party's base of supporters and also to discredit the protesters and what they're calling for.