MEP Criticizes Leyen and Kos for Belgrade Visit: It Is Creating a False Sense that This Country Is Normal
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Slovenian MEP Vladimir Prebilić has called on European Commissioner for Enlargement, Marta Kos, and European Commission President, Ursula von der Leyen, to reconsider their planned visit to Belgrade next month, assessing that there is "no justification" for such a visit. According to Prebilić, their visit to the Serbian capital could create a "false sense of normality", at a time when Serbia has been accused of spying on students and activists t…
Member of the European Parliament Vladimir Prebilič said today that there is no justification for the visit of the highest officials of the European Commission to Belgrade next month, after learning that student activists in Serbia are being spied on using advanced technology.
Šider stated yesterday that claims that the Serbian authorities used spyware to monitor activists and journalists have been around for some time, and that such practices had previously been strongly criticized at the European level with repeated calls for a full and transparent investigation. "The fact that the existence of Pegasus has now been forensically confirmed on the phones of members of the student movement represents a serious escalatio…
The MEP said that their arrival, after allegations of spying on students, would create a "false impression of normality".
"It was a small step from a sound cannon in March 2025 to a fully operational spyware campaign targeting key opposition and student activists in Serbia."
MEP Vladimir Prebilič told European Commissioner for Enlargement Marta Kos and EC President Ursula von der Leyen that there is no justification
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