At the Belgrade Security Conference, the panel “Democracy Under Siege: The Rise of Anti-Establishment Extremism in Europe and Serbia” examined how anti-establishment narratives, conspiratorial thinking, and far-right activism are reshaping European politics and weakening democratic norms.
The third panel of the second BSC day, moderated by Goran Buldioski, Senior Fellow, Hertie School, University of Governance in Berlin addressed key questions shaping the future of democratic governance amid steadily intensifying global authoritarian pressure and the erosion of institutional resilience caused by internal liberal trends.
The opening panel began with a video documenting the large, student-led protests that have swept across Serbia over the past year. From there, the discussion moved to the broader political and social turmoil that followed the tragic collapse of the railway-station canopy in Novi Sad, as well as to potential pathways for overcoming the current deadlock.
