Under the radar of state security agencies, a coalition of violent European neo-fascist and far-right parties gathered in Belgrade over the weekend of May 30–31, 2026. The convention, organized by a U.S.-sanctioned extremist, used a mainstream press venue to broadcast highly discriminatory rhetoric against minorities, migrants, and the LGBT community, while reinforcing aggressive pro-Russian and anti-Western geopolitical alignments.
The event has triggered intense criticism from independent domestic security watchdogs, who question why Serbia’s Security Intelligence Agency (BIA) permitted entry to convicted foreign extremists who pose overt national security risks.
The Architecture of the Meeting: Who Are the Key Figures?
The conference was spearheaded by the founders of the newly formed Party of Serbian Nationalists, a political entity created in late 2024. The party serves as an umbrella group uniting three notorious figures from Serbia’s militant ultranationalist fringe:
[The Party of Serbian Nationalists Leadership]
Miša Vacić Pavle Bihali Goran Davidović
(Founder, Srpska Desnica) (Leader, Levi推动an) (Leader, Nacionalni Stroj)
│ │ │
▼ ▼ ▼
• On US Sanctions List • Intercepted audio linked • Notorious neo-Nazi
• Pro-Kremlin operative him to ruling SNS party nicknamed "The Führer"
- Miša Vacić: Placed on the U.S. State Department sanctions list in 2023 for orchestrating “malign activities on behalf of the Russian Federation.” Vacić previously served as an international observer for the Kremlin’s illegal annexation referendums in occupied Ukraine in September 2022.
- Pavle Bihali: The leader of the radical group “Levijatan.” Bihali’s independence was severely compromised in December 2025 when a leaked phone recording exposed him admitting that he takes direct orders from operatives within the ruling Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) to avoid prison time.
- Goran Davidović: Notoriously known by his moniker “The Führer,” Davidović is the former leader of Nacionalni Stroj (National Alignment), an explicitly neo-Nazi organization that was legally banned by Serbia’s Constitutional Court.
The European Contingent: Convicted Felons & Shadow Networks
Security analysts expressed deep alarm over the high-profile foreign delegates Vacić managed to draw to Belgrade. The visiting speakers represent various branches of the Alliance for Peace and Freedom (APF), a pan-European network of far-right, non-parliamentary extremist parties with historical ties to violence:
| Speaker | Organization / Country | Background & Security Profile |
| Roberto Fiore | Forza Nuova (New Force) Italy | Current President of the APF. Fled to the UK in the 1980s after Italian police found stockpiles of explosives linked to his group. Sentenced in absentia to 9 years in prison for subversive association and organizing an armed group. Returned to Italy in 1999 after the statute of limitations expired. |
| Gonzalo Martín | Democracia Nacional Spain | Vice President of a radical anti-immigrant, Spanish ethno-nationalist faction known for aggressive street politics and xenophobic campaigns. |
| Janis Zografos | Greek Patriotic Movement-K21 Greece | Leader of a splinter group formed out of the ashes of Golden Dawn, the notorious Greek neo-Nazi party that was legally designated a criminal organization by Greek courts in 2020. |
Hate Speech and Geopolitical Alignments
The two-day summit featured explicitly illegal and discriminatory rhetoric, which took place inside the Press Center of the Association of Journalists of Serbia (UNS)—a venue that subsequently issued a formal statement scrambling to distance itself from the event’s contents.
[The Symbiotic Far-Right Narrative]
Domestic Narrative Transnational Narrative
┌─────────────────────────────┐ ┌─────────────────────────────┐
│ • Target student protesters │ │ • Total alignment with │
│ as "Anarcho-Bolsheviks" │ ──────> │ the Russian Federation │
│ • White supremacist rhetoric│ │ • Aggressive anti-Western │
│ • Anti-Roma/Anti-LGBT hate │ │ and anti-EU positions │
└─────────────────────────────┘ └─────────────────────────────┘
During the panel, Goran Davidović openly chanted the banned neo-Nazi slogan “Serbia for Serbs,” while Pavle Bihali delivered a xenophobic tirade against the Roma minority, calling for the “preservation of the white race” and a legal ban on interracial marriages.
From a geopolitical standpoint, Roberto Fiore called on European far-right militants to organize localized cells to prepare for what he termed a “final conflict for a Christian Europe.” All participating factions share a long history of financial and ideological ties to Moscow, dating back to their attendance at pro-Kremlin forums in Saint Petersburg hosted by Vladimir Putin’s United Russia party.
The State’s Silence: Acting as an “Extreme Wing” of the Regime
Despite the overt breach of Serbia’s Law on the Prohibition of Discrimination, the Serbian government has maintained absolute silence. The Ministry for Human and Minority Rights, the State Department, and the BIA all declined to answer press inquiries regarding why these high-risk individuals were permitted to convene in Belgrade.
Independent security analyst Predrag Petrović notes that this silence is deliberate. The timing of the conference aligns with ongoing, student-led anti-government blockades in Belgrade. By attacking student demonstrators as “anarcho-bolsheviks” and “blockaders”—matching the exact vocabulary used by mainstream state media—Vacić’s faction effectively acts as an aggressive, outsourced enforcement wing for the ruling political regime.
