Serbia's Vucic trolls EU with Moscow visit

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

61% : The optics of the visit -- which were splashed across Serbian television and social media -- signal Vucic's growing confidence in pursuing an independent foreign policy that is decoupled from EU alignment.
59% : Vucic's attendance at the Moscow parade is emblematic of that shift -- a calculated snub that highlights just how little sway the EU now holds over its once-hopeful Balkan candidates.
51% : Slovakia's Prime Minister Robert Fico and Republika Srpska's Milorad Dodik were the only other European leaders present, offering Vucic some diplomatic cover -- while deepening the sense of fragmentation within the EU.
46% : Amid internal EU divisions, rising geopolitical competition and US-Russia diplomatic overtures, Belgrade sees fewer incentives to toe Brussels' line.
45% : "Serbia cannot sit on two chairs forever," EU officials like to say.
44% : Vucic joined Russian President Vladimir Putin, Chinese President Xi Jinping and over 20 other world leaders for the Victory Day parade in Moscow, defying warnings from EU officials that such a visit would derail Serbia's long-stalled EU accession bid.
43% : / Instagram: buducnostsrbijeav Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic goaded the EU on May 9 by posting images from the Kremlin and Red Square across his social media accounts.
42% : Vucic seemed to be testing EU leaders to make good on their threats by posting daily updates on social media of all the persona non grata he met in Moscow -- Putin, Dodik and Patriarch Kirill.

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