Vucic says support for student protests “drastically declining”

He added that there is a tendency in society to idolize students, but that he finds their plenums ridiculous.

“People care less and less about whether the children are learning, and more about us learning from the children. Come on, don’t treat us like fools. Schools exist for teachers to teach children, universities for professors to educate students, not the other way around. When people start pandering and idolizing, there’s no end to it,” Vucic said.

Without explicitly mentioning students, Vucic remarked that “they” are demanding answers from institutions while refusing to engage with them, describing this as “CIA tactics” and suggesting that they “had been taught that way.”

The Serbian president dismissed claims that the recent assault on Belgrade Law School students had anything to do with him personally, the government, or anyone else, asserting that the students had fought each other under the influence of alcohol.

“Two countries retracting Kosovo recognition”

Vucic said Serbia is currently “considering how and when” to reveal the names of two countries planning to retract their recognition of Kosovo’s independence.

“There are other countries we are talking to. Perhaps there will be one country that will recognize (Kosovo) for the first time, but we will fight that, confront them, because there has been a change of leadership there,” Vucic said.