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On June 17, Serbia's parliament opened an extraordinary session with 32 agenda items, including amendments to five judicial laws previously criticized by the Venice Commission. N1 reports that the Commission's follow-up opinion found seven of nine recommendations implemented, while two key lines remain unresolved.
N1 and Danas report that an extraordinary session of the High Prosecutorial Council is scheduled for June 18, with temporary assignment of public prosecutors to the Organized Crime Prosecutor's Office among the proposed agenda items. The issue is directly tied to the Venice Commission's follow-up opinion on the Mrdic laws, which singled out the fact that not all prosecutors had been returned to TOK as unresolved.
021 reports that students blockading Novi Sad faculties are calling a large protest on June 20 at the turbo roundabout, at the junction of Fruskogorska and Bulevar cara Lazara. Stands will be set up around 14:30, the main program begins at 17:30, and the announced focus is distrust in institutions, police, media freedom, and electoral conditions.
On June 16, the Energy Ministry and MOL signed a shareholder agreement on the future management of NIS: it takes effect only if MOL reaches a deal with Gazprom Neft to buy 56.15 percent of NIS and receives OFAC approval. The same day, Aleksandar Vucic said from Tbilisi that, based on information he was receiving from Washington, NIS's operating license may be extended for another 15 days.
On June 16, the Venice Commission published a follow-up opinion on the revision of the Mrdic laws: in the commission's assessment, Serbia implemented seven of nine recommendations, but did not fully resolve the return of two of 11 organized-crime prosecutors or the structural autonomy of the cybercrime unit. This qualifies the more optimistic political framing in which Ana Brnabic spoke on June 12 about a positive opinion and expectations for Cluster 3.
In its June 15 morning politics block, Danas writes that one possible scenario for Aleksandar Vucic is to resign in two or three months, call a presidential election, calmly lose it to a candidate proposed by students and adopted by the protesting part of society, then move into the prime minister's office, reconstruct the government, and remain in power until early 2028 and the end of EXPO.
