Residents of Novi Sad cheered as hundreds of students completed a nearly 80-kilometer walk from Belgrade. It was the culmination of months of protests after the deadly collapse of the roof of a train ...
and the closure of small businesses and schools across Serbia. Students have emerged as the leaders of the protest movement and have been blockading campuses across the country for months.
While von Ursula von der Leyen has not hesitated to express support for “the Georgian people fighting for democracy", she has remained remarkably quiet about the uprising in Serbia.