Following the visit to Brussels of the Rector of the University of Belgrade, a meeting between the Prime Minister of Serbia and the Head of the EU Delegation

The Serbian government announced that its President Đuro Macut, on his own initiative, urgently met today with the Head of the European Union Delegation to Serbia, Andreas von Beckerath, and that the topic of the meeting "was primarily ensuring equal relations and a uniform representation of the academic community outside Serbia."

They also discussed "key issues of academic community stability and improving cooperation with European Union institutions."

The Prime Minister emphasized "the need to harmonize the representation of the academic community, emphasizing that any appearance on its behalf requires a coordinated platform of all representatives in Serbia, in order to avoid further politicization and polarization."

Macut assessed that this was "crucial and necessary in order to preserve the hard-won stability in the academic community, after the period in 2025, when the work of all state academic institutions was blocked."

The meeting "also highlighted the need to raise the level of media dialogue culture, as well as to reduce tension in the public space."

Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić said on Monday that the EU had "violated the principles of the rule of law" when its Enlargement Commissioner Marta Kos met with the rector of the University of Belgrade, Vladan Đokić, in Brussels. Vučić described the meeting as a political one and said that the rector had no right to engage in politics.

Đokić was in Brussels for an international university conference under the auspices of the EU.