Live Day: Students are not giving up on the blockade, the government has decided to "give in"

The anti-corruption protests in Serbia continue despite the appointment of a new government. For more than a week, students have been blocking the buildings of the public broadcaster RTS.

Students and citizens continued the blockade of Radio Television of Serbia (RTS) on Thursday despite the call of Serbian Parliament Speaker Ana Brnabic, who called for an end to the blockade and announced a session at which the procedure for the election of new members of the Council of the Regulatory Agency for Electronic Media (REM) will be initiated, which is also a student request. Brnabic said that a meeting of the Committee on Culture and …

After seeing that the students did not give up blocking RTS, the government decided to "give in". A session of the Committee for Culture and Information was convened with a proposal to cancel the current competition for members of the REM Council and announce a new one. We will talk to Saša Mirković from ANEM about how the government tries to maneuver between student demands, EU demands and the imperative to maintain absolute control over all me…

All entrances to the building in Takovska are still blocked, and traffic in the surrounding streets is closed.

The tenth morning of the RTS blockade is proceeding peacefully. There are a lot of security guards in Aberdareva, and in this street the students have set up several tents, where they have food stations.