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While the EU remains the largest and most important economic partner of Serbia, Belgrade has very little incentive to give up collaboration with the likes of Lukashenko - as the prospect of Serbian EU membership is distant (Photo: ec.europa.eu)

Why is Serbia not going to join EU sanctions on Belarus?

On May 23, Belarus fighter jets diverted a Ryanair civilian flight from Athens, Greece to Vilnius, Lithuania under a pretence of the bomb threat, to arrest a dissident journalist Roman Protasevich, a critic of Belarus strongman president Alexander Lukashenko.

The EU has responded in the form of political condemnation and economic sanctions, as Belarus pl...

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Vuk Vuksanovic is a PhD researcher in international relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), an associate of LSE IDEAS, LSE’s foreign policy think tank, and a researcher at the Belgrade Centre for Security Policy (BCSP).

While the EU remains the largest and most important economic partner of Serbia, Belgrade has very little incentive to give up collaboration with the likes of Lukashenko - as the prospect of Serbian EU membership is distant (Photo: ec.europa.eu)

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Vuk Vuksanovic is a PhD researcher in international relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), an associate of LSE IDEAS, LSE’s foreign policy think tank, and a researcher at the Belgrade Centre for Security Policy (BCSP).

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