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Serbian student protesters head to Strasbourg on bicycles to seek EU support
- Serbian students began a 780-mile bicycle trip to Strasbourg on Thursday, April 3, 2025, to seek EU support.
- Months-Long protests against corruption and a lack of support from the EU motivated the students' journey.
- About 80 students cycled from Novi Sad, planning to travel through multiple countries to reach the Council of Europe.
- Bosko Bradic stated he hoped the effort would generate about 15 days of attention in European and global news.
- The students' action highlights discontent with corruption and Vucic's rule, as Serbia seeks EU membership.
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Protesters continue on to Strasbourg.
For months, Serbia's students have been demonstrating against corruption and arbitrariness of power. To draw Europe's attention to the abuses, 80 activists cycled to Strasbourg. On Monday, they stopped in Vienna.
Participants of a bicycle rally want to draw the attention of European institutions to the situation in Serbia. The wave of protests following the canopy collapse in Novi Sad, which left 16 dead, also reached Budapest on Saturday.
For more than four months, Serbia has been going through something that, as the poet would say, can hardly be called peace, and we know for sure that it is not war either.
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