Serbian student protesters head to Strasbourg on bicycles to seek EU support

True Grit: The Student Blockades in Serbia

“Children are the ornament of the world,” goes one famous Serbian poem by Ljubivoje Ršumović. Today, in Serbia, they are on everyone’s mind. A generation written off by many as disconnected social-media addicts has proven to be quite the opposite, galvanizing society with their singular brand of civil disobedience, at once rebellious and virtuous, digitally savvy and frankly analogue. They’ve been compared to the liberators of 1945; they’ve been…

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.

Budapest Welcomes Serbia's Pedaling Protesters

Dozens of Serbian cyclists are traveling some 1,300 kilometers to the European Parliament in Strasbourg to draw attention to their country's ongoing anti-corruption campaign.

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.