Source: Christian Science Monitor
by staff
“Over the past nine months, a visitor to Serbia in southeastern Europe might have run into almost-daily protests by university students. The biggest demonstrations brought out at least 4% of Serbia’s 6 million people, most of them Generation Z. While the numbers and the persistence of the protests are impressive, what really matters is that ‘the students have behaved with exemplary integrity,’ as one faculty member at the University of Novi Sad put it. That has brought them widespread public support. Their integrity is rooted in a consistent demand: The students want transparency and accountability from government after the collapse of a renovated rail station canopy killed 16 people last November. … In addition, they have organized themselves after the democracy they seek: The protesters operate by consensus and with equality, without leaders.” (08/19/25)