The visibility of female candidates for upcoming elections is not as strong as in 2020 election campaign and representation in the Serbian Assembly has increased only slightly over the past decade, according to the Academy in Women's Leadership

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