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European Greens Urge EPP to Expel Vučić’s SNS

From N1 Serbia · () Serbian

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  • The European Greens urged the European People’s Party to end its cooperation with Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić’s Serbian Progressive Party, or SNS.
  • They cited Justice Minister Nenad Vujić’s statement that convicted war criminal Ratko Mladić would receive state and military honors at his burial.
  • The Greens said the EPP had announced an internal review of SNS nearly a year earlier but had not published results, while SNS remained listed as an associate member.

The European Green Party has called on the European People’s Party to cut ties with Aleksandar Vučić’s Serbian Progressive Party and remove it from associate membership.

The Greens pointed to Serbian Justice Minister Nenad Vujić’s statement that Ratko Mladić would be buried with state and military honors. They described the prospect as an insult to the victims of the Srebrenica genocide and to victims of war crimes in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

“The fact that a convicted perpetrator of genocide will receive the honors of the Serbian state is shameful. Today, SNS is an associate member of the EPP. If the EPP cannot react in a situation like this, why is it conducting a review of SNS membership at all?” European Greens co-chair Kira Peter-Hansen said.

The Greens also recalled that EPP President Manfred Weber announced a thorough and swift internal investigation into the role of Vučić’s SNS on Sept. 25, 2025. Almost a year later, they said, the investigation had produced no results and SNS was still listed on the EPP website as an associate member.

Mladić was convicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes. He died in The Hague on Aug. 27 while serving a life sentence.

The fact that a convicted perpetrator of genocide will receive the honors of the Serbian state is shameful. Today, SNS is an associate member of the EPP. If the EPP cannot react in a situation like this, why is it conducting a review of SNS membership at all?

· Kira Peter-HansenThe European Greens co-chair criticized the EPP’s continued association with SNS.
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