Tonino Picula MEP told the Croatian HINA news agency that Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic is facing a unique form of resistance to his rule.

University students have been protesting across Serbia for more than 2 months, demanding accountability for the deaths of 15 people at Novi Sad Railway Station.

„This resistance comes from students, who are not easy to discredit or suppress like conventionally organised opposition parties,“ Picula, the European Parliament’s rapporteur for Serbia said.

According to him, the students are evidently not easy to disperse by using brute force, nor can they be easily bribed with social benefits or privileges.

HINA quoted Picula as saying that the students face a dilemma about how to continue their resistance, specifically whether they will present „clear political positions“.

„Because if they insist on a Serbia free of corruption, that cannot happen without articulating political demands to create an environment where tragedies like the one in Novi Sad will not be repeated,“ Picula said.