In the past decade, European countries have witnessed a rise in anti-establishment extremism (AEE), which challenges the modern democratic order and offers authoritarian modes of governance as a “solution” to consecutive, overlapping crises.

The Civil Committee for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders and Whistleblowers strongly condemns the threats directed at journalist Vuk Cvijić, which occurred on December 17 and were allegedly triggered by an article he wrote for the weekly Radar.

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.

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.

This policy paper examines Western Balkan stakeholders' perspectives on what is needed for meaningful enlargement and the EU reforms they consider essential for an effective expanded Union. Field research in spring and summer 2024 included 16 high-level interviews with representatives from all six countries of the region.

The subject of analysis is the content related to student and civic protests distributed on the Telegram channel “BUNT je stanje duha.”