Vučić: I do not expect a change in the status of the SNS in the European People's Party

"We are always ready for dialogue and conversation," said the Serbian President.

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12.09.2025. 13:00h

Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić stated today in Belgrade that he does not expect a change in the status of the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) in the European People's Party (EPP), whose president Manfred Weber announced a discussion on the issue.

After handing over employment contracts to healthcare workers who returned to Serbia from abroad, Vučić told reporters that the relationship with the EPP is "certainly an important issue" for the SNS, which has had the status of an associate member in that political family of conservative and Christian Democrat European parties since 2016.

"The European People's Party is an important place for us. They will talk about it (the status of the SNS), and we are always ready for dialogue and conversation. I think everything will be fine there, with all the arguments that we will face, since I believe that the future of the SNS is in the European People's Party," said Vučić.

He added that this issue is more for SNS President Miloš Vučević and EPP President Weber, but also for the prime ministers of Poland and Greece, Donald Tusk and Kyriakos Mitsotakis, "and many other people who have strong actions within the European People's Party."

Ahead of the plenary session of the European Parliament on September 9, at which one of the items was a discussion on the use of force against demonstrators in Serbia, Weber stated that the future of the SNS in the EPP would be the subject of discussion within the strongest party in the European Parliament in the coming days.

"There are divided opinions on this in the EPP. We are closely monitoring the situation in Serbia, we are aware of the developments. The European People's Party is not blind to the developments in Serbia. The leaders have started to monitor President Vučić and the SNS and will discuss this in the coming days," said Veber.

On the same day, some MEPs from the ranks of the Social Democrats, Greens, and Liberals called on the EPP to exclude the SNS from its membership due to its violation of democratic principles and violence against demonstrators.