Geopolitics and Values: In Tension or in Tandem? - What Drives Serbian Public Opinion on EU Membership
Geopolitics and Values: In Tension or in Tandem? - What Drives Serbian Public Opinion on EU Membership

Author(s): Milena Mihajlović Denić, Ana Milinković, Marko Todorović
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Politics, EU-Approach / EU-Accession / EU-Development
Published by: Centar za evropske politike CEP
Keywords: Anti-corruption; Reform Agenda; Western Balkans; Rule of law; European Union enlargement; Governance reforms; Political will; Serbia; Public opinion; EU membership
Summary/Abstract: More than 25 years after Serbia's democratic transition and its turn towards European integration, public support for EU membership has fallen to its lowest level since 2000: 39.8% in favour, 33.8% opposed, and over a quarter of citizens taking no position – a three-way split that has become a structural feature of Serbian public opinion on the issue. This policy brief examines what drives these attitudes at a moment when renewed momentum for EU enlargement coincides with deepening public disillusionment with EU integration in Serbia. It draws on a nationally representative survey of 1,000 citizens, two focus groups, and statistical modelling of the pathways through which perceptions shape support for membership.

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