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When you sit everywhere, you get stuck somewhere (the case of Aleksandar Vučić). Is the end of the Serbian foreign policy of sitting on four chairs coming?

2025-12-18 17:28:34Pikëpamje SHKRUAR NGA ENVER ROBELLI
When you sit everywhere, you get stuck somewhere (the case of Aleksandar
Aleksandar Vucic

Good with Russia. Good with China. Good with the European Union. Good with the US. This has been the slogan of the President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, for years. It was called the policy of sitting on the “four chairs”. Warnings from Brussels and Washington that this policy of Belgrade would not be tolerated for long were not taken seriously by the Serbian government.

Vučić tried to stroke the ego of Donald Trump's family by promising them a large plot of land in Belgrade, where Trump's son-in-law and sons would build a luxury hotel, 1,500 apartments and plenty of space for shops. This goal was thwarted by the Serbian judiciary, because it discovered manipulations in the process of granting the land to the Trump family. On Monday, the Serbian prosecutor's office against organized crime filed an indictment against a minister and three other officials from the cultural heritage sector. A few hours later, Jared Kushner, Trump's son-in-law, announced that he had decided to withdraw from the project in Belgrade, which he had praised in recent months with great words. This year, Vučić had welcomed Kushner and Trump's son (Donald Trump Jr.) to Belgrade with great fanfare.

The announcement by Kushner's firm about the burying of investment plans in Belgrade, more precisely in the place where the ruins of the Yugoslav and Serbian army headquarters are today, states that this was being done as a sign of respect for the Serbian people and Belgrade. Nowhere was there any mention of respect for Vučić, whom members of the Trump family considered a partner.

In May of this year, Vučić appeared in Florida with the desire to enter a Republican Party meeting, on which occasion he hoped to meet Donald Trump. The visit was abruptly cut short with the official excuse that Vučić was experiencing severe chest pains, and the Serbian president returned to Belgrade. The magazine "Vreme" at the time asked: chest pain or diplomatic fiasco?

The months-long courtship of the Trump clan, in the hope that, in addition to their investment in Belgrade, American sanctions against the Serbian oil industry NIS, which is 45 percent owned by the Russian state concern Gazprom Neft, 11 percent by a company close to Gazprom Neft, and 30 percent by the Serbian state, did not bring the desired goal. The sanctions, initially announced by President Joe Biden, came into effect under the Trump administration.

Vučić rejected the European Union's request to impose sanctions on Russia over Moscow's aggression against Ukraine. To appease Brussels (and Washington), the Serbian president started a game: Serbian companies supplied Ukraine with ammunition and weapons, not directly, but by selling weapons to several European countries, which then sent them to Kiev. Vučić said that he knew nothing about this business, that he was not responsible for where other countries sent the weapons, and so on. According to the Financial Times, Serbian companies sold weapons worth about 800 million euros. These weapons ended up in Ukraine.

The Russians who rule in Moscow may be anything but, they are neither stupid nor naive. Vučić knew that resentment was growing in the Kremlin against his double game: on the one hand, he refused to impose sanctions on Russia, on the other, Serbian firms sold weapons to Ukraine. In an attempt to ease tensions, Vučić attended the military parade in Moscow in early May, which marked the end of World War II 80 years ago. This was a blow to the EU, since Serbia is a candidate for membership and the EU was against the visit. Several EU countries even denied Vučić the right to fly over their territories on his way to Moscow.

If Vučić thought that he would eventually throw himself at the Russians with his visit to Moscow, then this was his miscalculation. Because at the end of May, the Russian secret service SVR accused Serbia (read: Vučić) of stabbing its Russian brothers in the back. The purpose of the arms shipments from Serbia to Ukraine, according to the Russians, is to kill and maim Russian soldiers and civilians. "It seems that the desire of Serbian arms manufacturers and their supporters to profit from the blood of the fraternal Slavic peoples has made them completely forget who their real friends are and who their enemies are," the SVR declared.

This week it became known that a month ago (on November 17) Radomir Kurtić died on the street in Moscow. He was a representative of the Serbian state-owned arms company “Jugoimport SDPR”. Serbian media close to the regime published accusations against Moscow, because the Serbian secret services have not received any information from the Russian services about the suspicious death of Radomir Kurtić. A commission of the company “Jugoimport SDPR” inspected the offices in Moscow and found that a number of documents and the computer hard drive are missing. It seems that not only the “Serbian chair” in Washington, but also the one in Moscow is shaking its legs.

Brussels officials have been extremely tolerant of Vučić. They praised him when hundreds of thousands of Serbs flooded the streets and protested against him after part of the roof of the train station in Novi Sad collapsed (16 dead). They called him a partner. They invited him to dinners. They visited him in Belgrade. They did not pressure him when a terrorist gang close to his regime attacked Kosovo, killed a policeman, and wounded another. They allowed him to mock when he said he could not sign an agreement with Kosovo because his hand was hurting. The long-standing anti-Western campaign of the Serbian regime's media, which constantly accuses the West of intending to kill Vučić, is going on without any consequences. Billions are flowing from the West to make Serbia capable and developed enough to enter the EU. This week, Serbia did not participate in the EU summit with the Balkan countries. "Ultimately, this is his decision," was the comment of an EU spokeswoman.

Even this "Serbian chair" has begun to shake.

For now, it seems that only the "Serbian chair" in Beijing is left with four legs. This week, Vučić announced a visit to China. According to him, this country is "a sincere and steely friend of Serbia."


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