{"id":483,"date":"2024-01-02T20:20:38","date_gmt":"2024-01-02T20:20:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/02\/the-guardian-view-on-state-capture-in-serbia-a-problem-for-the-balkans-and-for-the-eu-editorial\/"},"modified":"2024-01-02T20:20:38","modified_gmt":"2024-01-02T20:20:38","slug":"the-guardian-view-on-state-capture-in-serbia-a-problem-for-the-balkans-and-for-the-eu-editorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/02\/the-guardian-view-on-state-capture-in-serbia-a-problem-for-the-balkans-and-for-the-eu-editorial\/","title":{"rendered":"The Guardian view on state capture in Serbia: a problem for the Balkans and for the EU | Editorial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Flawed elections confirm Europe is being strung along by a government intent on an authoritarian, ethno-nationalist agenda<\/p>\n<p>According to Serbia\u2019s president, Aleksandar Vu\u010di\u0107, the country\u2019s recent parliamentary elections were the \u201ccleanest and most honest\u201d in its history. They were also a triumph for his misnamed Serbian Progressive party (SNS), which won by a landslide. But the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe had a different take.<\/p>\n<p>The 17 December poll, said a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.osce.org\/files\/f\/documents\/6\/8\/560650_1.pdf\">statement<\/a> by its international observer team, took place in \u201cunjust conditions\u201d, marred by \u201cbias in the media, pressure on public sector employees and misuse of public resources\u201d. Instances of intimidation and \u201cserious irregularities\u201d including vote-buying and ballot-stuffing were noted. Other allegations have been made that Bosnian Serbs were bussed-in en\u00a0masse\u00a0to\u00a0fraudulently vote in Belgrade.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2024\/jan\/02\/the-guardian-view-on-state-capture-in-serbia-a-problem-for-the-balkans-and-for-the-eu\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flawed elections confirm Europe is being strung along by a government intent on an authoritarian, ethno-nationalist agenda According to Serbia\u2019s president, Aleksandar Vu\u010di\u0107, the country\u2019s recent parliamentary elections were the \u201ccleanest and most honest\u201d in its history. They were also a triumph for his misnamed Serbian Progressive party (SNS), which won by a landslide. But &#8230; <a title=\"The Guardian view on state capture in Serbia: a problem for the Balkans and for the EU | Editorial\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/02\/the-guardian-view-on-state-capture-in-serbia-a-problem-for-the-balkans-and-for-the-eu-editorial\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about The Guardian view on state capture in Serbia: a problem for the Balkans and for the EU | Editorial\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}