{"id":2463,"date":"2025-02-11T07:37:59","date_gmt":"2025-02-11T08:37:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/?p=2463"},"modified":"2025-02-11T08:46:23","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T08:46:23","slug":"serbian-leader-says-west-spent-billions-to-overthrow-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/11\/serbian-leader-says-west-spent-billions-to-overthrow-him\/","title":{"rendered":"Serbian leader says West spent billions to overthrow him"},"content":{"rendered":"

Aleksandar Vucic has accused foreign powers of trying to launch a color revolution in his country<\/strong><\/p>\n

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic has accused Western powers of trying to orchestrate his overthrow. In an interview on Pink TV broadcast on Monday, Vucic said \u201cforeign powers\u201d<\/em> have spent around \u20ac3 billion ($3.1 billion) over the past decade trying to oust him from power.<\/p>\n

Vucic\u2019s remarks follow weeks of student-led anti-government protests over alleged corruption and negligence. The protests were initially triggered by the deadly collapse of a concrete canopy at the Novi Sad railway station last November following extensive renovations.<\/p>\n

The incident, which claimed 15 lives, led to public outrage throughout the country. Vucic earlier blamed \u201cforeign instructors\u201d<\/em> promoting Western, Croatian, and Albanian interests for the unrest, accusing them of attempting to launch a color revolution in Serbia.<\/p>\n

In his latest interview, Vucic reiterated these claims, stating that foreign powers \u201cstarted to invest more and more in Serbia\u2019s destruction as soon as the country began to rapidly grow.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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\u201cI am fascinated by how much money was invested in my overthrow. These foreign countries, they have invested so much money in the last 10 years\u2026 when I started counting, it was already \u20ac3 billion,\u201d<\/em> Vucic said. He cited the Trag Foundation, a UK charity that promotes social change in Serbia, as an example of a foreign-funded NGO linked to the protest movement, claiming that the agency has received \u20ac28 million ($28.85 million) from foreign powers.<\/p>\n

According to Vucic, there are three objectives behind the foreign involvement in Serbia\u2019s domestic affairs, including the \u201cdestruction of Serbia\u2019s libertarian policy\u201d<\/em> and undermining the country\u2019s standing in the Balkans.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe third, which is the most important, is that they want to play us like a puppet show so that their word is the only one that is obeyed,\u201d<\/em> Vucic claimed.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd they really don\u2019t care about the people here, whom they took out to the streets for bloodshed. They really don\u2019t care as they invested huge money,\u201d<\/em> he said, adding that attempts to oust him have failed and will continue to do so.<\/p>\n

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According to the president, the unrest is already waning as \u201call the students\u2019 demands have been met\u201d<\/em> by the state, including the publication of documents related to the tragedy at Novi Sad, pardons for activists arrested at rallies, criminal proceedings against people accused of attacking demonstrators, and a 20% increase in funding for universities.<\/p>\n

The protests have already led to the resignation of several high-ranking officials, including Infrastructure Minister Goran Vesic and Prime Minister Milos Vucevic. Some analysts say that meeting the protesters\u2019 demands might not be enough to end the rallies, with calls now for deeper, systemic changes in the government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Aleksandar Vucic has accused foreign powers of trying to launch a color revolution in his country Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic has accused Western powers of trying to orchestrate his overthrow. In an interview on Pink TV broadcast on Monday, Vucic said \u201cforeign powers\u201d have spent around \u20ac3 billion ($3.1 billion) over the past decade trying…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2465,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2463"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2466,"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2463\/revisions\/2466"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}