The country has reiterated its threat to intervene militarily in its former province of Kosovo if NATO-led peacekeepers fail to protect the Serbian minority from what Belgrade has called the terrorist threat of ethnic Albanian Kosovar authorities

Extensive injuries sustained in a police crackdown on anti-government protesters in Valjevo in August 2025 show the use of force was often ‘punitive’, not an immediate response to danger, according to a report compiled by forensic medicine experts

Chinese and Russian companies have contributed in drafting Serbia’s mining regulations, now adopted by Parliament, raising concerns among non-governmental organizations, citizens and experts that say the practice could hide concessions

Police raids on opposition party's offices and University of Belgrade rectorate have respectively sparked a wave of indignation and clashes with security forces outside the athenaeum

Standard and Poor's credit rating agency has kept Serbia’s ‘Stable’, citing an economic outlook at the investment-grade level but underlining that political polarisation and protests may affect its appeal to investors