“Protests in his own country, supporters attacking KFOR soldiers, and a shadowy figure as the head of intelligence: Despite all this, [Serbian President Aleksandar] Vučić is still considered an important negotiating partner in the West. [Russian President] Vladimir Putin is likely pleased with this.”

This is what the renowned German magazine, Der Spiegel, writes in an article, about Serbia blatantly tolerated by the international community.

The policy being pursued by Belgrade towards developments in the region risks reigniting the Balkans, says the article from Der Spiegel.

According to the German magazine, Belgrade’s actions and the language used by Aleksandar Vučić could set the Balkans on fire. The attack on KFOR soldiers in the northern part of Kosovo, guns acquisition from China, and the lack of screening from Russia are developments that should have elicited a different response from Brussels and Washington.

The German media states that it is incomprehensible how, despite all these problems, a part of Western diplomacy views Vučić as a stabilizing factor.

The article also mentions the head of the Serbian Secret Service, Aleksandar Vulin, who is known to be an avid supporter of Russia and regularly makes nationalist calls against other nations in the region during election campaigns. Vulin talks about the “Serbian world” just as Vladimir Putin talks about the “Russian world”.

According to the German media, the head of the Secret Service often says in public what Aleksandar Vučić cannot say.

In the article, the German magazine also criticizes the EU envoy for the Kosovo-Serbia dialogue, Miroslav Lajčák. The latter responded appropriately during a meeting where Vučić claimed that the Serbian people in Kosovo have been subjected to “the most terrible persecution”.