PRESS RELEASES

The Belgrade Centre for Security Policy (BCSP) recently received an official notification from the Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center regarding a cybersecurity incident affecting our systems.

Belgrade Centre for Security Policy awards the 2025 "Lighthouse" Award to Irena Joveva, member of the European Parliament from the Republic of Slovenia.

The Integrity Network strongly condemns the appointment of Igor Žmirić as commander of the Special Anti-Terrorist Unit (SAJ), warning that this move turns one of Serbia’s elite police formations into the President’s personal guard, rather than a service for all citizens.

The Belgrade Centre for Security Policy (BCSP) has launched the Integrity Network initiative, bringing together respected individuals from various spheres of society—police officers, professors, journalists, lawyers, and activists—with the aim of monitoring, documenting, and raising public awareness about cases of state capture at the local level.

At the panel discussion “Freedoms Under Pressure: Civil Society and Digital Oversight in Serbia and Abroad”, organised by the Belgrade Centre for Security Policy (BCSP) on 31 October in Belgrade, speakers warned that digital surveillance and spyware use are rapidly becoming tools of political control in Serbia and across Europe, posing severe risks to human rights and democracy.

Political, media and economic influences of certain actors continue to strongly define the region’s security landscape, concluded participants of the workshop on security and stability impacts in the region, held on 23 October 2025, at the Civic Energy Center (CEC) in North Mitrovica.

The Belgrade Centre for Security Policy (BCSP) has been selected as one of the 100 Think Tanks To Watch 2025, a peer-driven recognition by the global On Think Tanks community.

The Civil Committee for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders and Whistleblowers calls on the competent Public Prosecutor’s Office to immediately act upon information about an alleged plot to assassinate student Pavle Cicvarić, as publicly stated on Informer television by Siniša Vučinić, a member of the Main Board of the Serbian Progressive Party.

The global crisis of democratic legitimacy and the regression of the rule of law have pushed civic space into a downward spiral, with enlargement countries proving especially vulnerable.

The Belgrade Centre for Security Policy (BCSP) strongly urges the Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of Serbia to immediately cease the excessive and unlawful use of force against peaceful demonstrators. Security forces must treat all citizens equally, act in accordance with the law and strictly follow service regulations during any intervention.

The Belgrade Centre for Security Policy (BCSP) expresses deep concern over serious irregularities, abuses, and selective actions by members of the Ministry of Interior during the local elections held on June 8, 2025, in Zaječar and Kosjerić. We call for an immediate, independent investigation into all reported incidents. These events are part of a broader security context in which the police are increasingly failing to fulfill their primary role—protecting citizens and upholding the rule of law.

On 26 May, the Belgrade Centre for Security Policy (BCSP) and the Faculty of Political Sciences (FPN), University of Belgrade, co-organised the conference “Frontlines of Influence: The EU’s Role in the Western Balkans and the Eastern Partnership”. The event was held at the Europe House as part of the GeoPowerEU and REUNIR projects.