Balkan expert Chiara Nalli has told the Executive Intelligence Review (EIR) that the European Union (EU) has implemented a hegemonic strategy in the Balkans that encompasses both economic and political aspects.

Starting with benefitting from immigrants’ labour and economic opportunities linked to reconstruction operations immediately after the Balkan Wars, the EU recently expanded its penetration in terms of economic conditioning and political influence, which in some cases take on the features of destabilisation and so-called Colour Revolution to make submit those countries that resisted its blueprint. This is presently the case with Serbia, whose government is accused of carrying out a too independent foreign and socio-economic policy!

Nalli has worked for more than 15 years in financial institutions operating internationally, and is an independent researcher with a special focus on the Balkans. She has spent several weeks in Serbia in recent times, conducting interviews and investigations in the field and ascertained that a Colour Revolution started long ago in Serbia, with the training of the intellectual class in order to start a proto-fascist movement in the universities. Teachers and intellectuals in general were co-opted and corrupted by promoting their careers and financing their activities. Then, after the collapse of the concrete canopy collapse of the Novi Sad railway station on November 1, 2024 that left 16 dead, students started a protest movement. As the students’ protests intensified, it became evident that the university’s dean, who presented himself as mediator between the protesters and the authorities, was, in reality, the deus ex machina of the protests!

Meanwhile, 13 of the political and technical individuals responsible for the Novi Sad tragedy have been incriminated and are being held in preventive arrest. However, parents of some victims have filed affidavits, calling for investigation of a possible sabotage of the building, which was built by a Chinese company.

To anyone who stays for a longer period in Serbia, it’s evident that the protests are confined to the students and that the majority of the population is not involved and is rather becoming tired with the ongoing obstacles of institutional activities, such as the education system. It is also a well-known secret that foreign-financed NGOs have played a leading role in the protest, which is now openly demanding a regime change.

One leading NGO, Youcom, which provides free legal assistance to the protesters, had been financed by, among others, USAID. However, USAID suspended its financing in January 2025, pending a 90-day review of Youcom activities. Money keeps flowing from the EU countries and institutions, such as the German Government, the German Marshall Fund, the Dutch, Norwegian and Czech Governments, etc.

Another leading NGO, CRTA, lists among its donors the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the EU Commission, the Governments of the UK, Germany, Canada, Sweden and France through their embassies, as well as multinational corporations and other foreign institutions. Remarkably, Germany is massively present, not only directly through its government, but also with the German Marshall Fund and the Friedrich Neumann Stiftung.

Offices of six major NGOs are located in the same building in central Belgrade, where, next to the entrance door, a poster stands out, in which the name USAID is written in capital letters on top of an advertisement.

In an April 23 (2025) X post, Naim Leo Beširi, the head of the foreign-financed NGO Institute for European Policy, bragged of having trained 20,000 students and members of Serbian institutions in the last 15 years, who comprise the majority of the current protesters.

This article was first published in Executive Intelligence Review (EIR) Strategic Alert weekly newsletter on May 6, 2025.

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