<p>On November 1 2024, the roof of a newly €55 million renovated railway station in Novi Sad, Serbia’s second biggest city, collapsed and killed 15 people. The deaths sparked Serbia’s largest wave of student-led anti-government protests since Yugoslavia’s disintegration in 2000.</p><p>Mid-March protests in Serbia saw roughly one in twenty Serbians participate. This week <a href="https://x.com/mladen_mrdalj?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Mladen Mrdalj </a>joins host <a href="https://www.fpri.org/contributor/aaron-schwartzbaum/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Aaron Schwartzbaum </a>to explore how the tragedy in Novi Sad sparked a mass move</p>

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After the Collapse: Tragedy in Serbia Sparks a Movement

APR 17, 202534 MIN
The Continent

After the Collapse: Tragedy in Serbia Sparks a Movement

APR 17, 202534 MIN

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<p>On November 1 2024, the roof of a newly €55 million renovated railway station in Novi Sad, Serbia’s second biggest city, collapsed and killed 15 people. The deaths sparked Serbia’s largest wave of student-led anti-government protests since Yugoslavia’s disintegration in 2000.</p><p>Mid-March protests in Serbia saw roughly one in twenty Serbians participate. This week <a href="https://x.com/mladen_mrdalj?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Mladen Mrdalj </a>joins host <a href="https://www.fpri.org/contributor/aaron-schwartzbaum/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Aaron Schwartzbaum </a>to explore how the tragedy in Novi Sad sparked a mass move</p>