Former Serbian Foreign Minister Vuk Drashković has leveled sharp criticism at President Aleksandar Vučić, saying that Serbia must face reality and recognize Kosovo as an independent state.
In an interview with Montenegrin newspaper Pobjeda, Drashković said that Vučić has changed drastically since the beginning of his political career.
“The Vučić of 2012, 2013, and 2014 has nothing to do with the man we see today. He’s someone else entirely,” said Drashković, recalling an article Vučić had once written for Danas in which he admitted that the politics of the 1990s were misguided and blind, failing to grasp the changes after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Drashković said he supported Vučić’s initial promises for European integration and normalization with Kosovo — including the Brussels Agreement of 2013 — but believes those efforts were sabotaged not by Vučić’s government at the time, but by opposition parties and the Serbian Orthodox Church.
“Three bishops held a memorial service for the living signatories of the Brussels Agreement. The opposition pelted him with stones instead of offering support,” he stated.
“Since 2014, I have essentially been the only opposition voice to Vučić — on many levels.”
Drashković has long advocated for Serbia to recognize Kosovo, support its membership in the Council of Europe and Interpol, and for Serbia itself to join NATO.
He said he warned Vučić not to “fool the people with roads, hospitals, and schools.”
“We do not live by bread alone, but by spirit,” said Drashković, comparing Vučić’s politics to the devil’s temptation of Christ in the desert.
According to him, Serbia is now experiencing a deep moral and cultural decline:
“Never before have spirit, morality, and reason been so buried. The language is endangered, culture is absent. And every evening — from the president himself down to his associates — we hear protesters being called Ustašas, Nazis, garbage, foreign spies. This is the lowest point Serbia has ever reached.”
