Changing the regime is not a leap into the unknown. This is a plan for an orderly return of the state to its citizens. You can see every step by which the system is permanently freed from abuse, how institutions are returned to citizens and how changes are locked in so that the old authorities can no longer stop or reverse them. You can share your idea or comment on any part of the program by clicking “Suggest”.
Serbia in the EU by 2030, with negotiation chapters closed and key reforms implemented. A state with rule of law, independent institutions, freedom of speech and assembly, free enterprise and social justice. A clear European direction, stable democracy and institutions operating to European standards.
A Serbia in which elections are free and democratic, the voter register is clean, ODIHR recommendations are implemented and the electoral process proceeds without coercion, captive votes or abuse of state resources. Citizens vote freely, without fear, and election results are recognized as a genuine expression of voters' will.
Serbia has a system that prevents, detects and punishes corruption, with independent institutions, professional investigations and clear accountability for the abuse of public office and public funds. The fight against corruption produces concrete results, including the seizure of unlawfully acquired assets and the return of stolen money to citizens.
Serbia achieves an economic growth rate of 6% annually through a healthy development model based on a strong domestic economy, knowledge, innovation, productivity growth, fair competition and exports. The economy operates without racketeering, unfair inspections, unnecessary paperwork or excessive levies.
Serbia has healthcare and education of European quality: a base salary of 400,000 dinars for doctors, 200,000 dinars for healthcare technicians and 250,000 dinars for teachers. Shorter waiting lists, better equipped schools and healthcare institutions, better treatment and learning outcomes, fair organization of work and full autonomy for schools and universities.
Serbia creates conditions for the return of 100,000 people from the diaspora and implements systemic measures that make it easier to decide to start and expand a family. Demographic renewal is a prerequisite for development and rests on investment in people, families, children, housing, kindergartens, work and a safer life.
Below is a short overview of the changes coming within each reform pillar. Explore the changes ahead and send us your proposals for what Serbia should look like after Vučić.
The state is returned to citizens by pulling the electoral process, the media, public administration and the security system out of the claws of party control. System change begins with the conditions in which citizens can choose freely and be informed. Public services must no longer be the regime’s campaign headquarters, and leadership posts must not depend on acting status. The goal is for institutions to work by law again, not by party order.
High-level corruption must no longer be a political topic without institutional resolution and accountability. Public money therefore gets a digital trail, major contracts get public dossiers, and senior officials face a specialized accountability system. Fear of the law must return to the places where political protection ruled for years. The goal is for money stolen from citizens to be tracked, confiscated and returned to public needs.
The economy is moving away from ad hoc subsidies and a model based on cheap labor toward higher productivity, new technologies and stronger domestic companies. The state stops choosing the favored and privileged and sets simple, predictable rules that apply to everyone, with lower business costs and faster, transparent procedures. Incentives are directed where they bring real improvements: to companies that invest, export, hire and enter supplier chains. The goal is sustainable growth that flows directly into higher wages and a stronger domestic economy. All measures are focused on growth in total factor productivity and the systematic removal of obstacles that hold back development.
School must be a child's greatest opportunity, not a place where parents’ material status determines educational outcomes. Education reform combines new curricula and better equipped schools with the security provided by free textbooks, free meals, classes of no more than 20 students and a better material status for teachers, in order to raise the quality of knowledge and of the education system. Curricula therefore move toward understanding, critical and logical thinking and skills in a safe school environment that promotes cooperation and empathy. We protect university autonomy and invest in the technical equipment of faculties, international cooperation and better conditions for high-quality scientific research. The goal of our plan is for a diploma to mean knowledge again, and for school to prepare children for life.
The healthcare system returns to a simple logic: the patient must know exactly when they will receive an examination, therapy or operation, and waiting time must not endanger the patient’s health. Healthcare workers must have wages and conditions that keep them in the public system. Waiting lists, staff management, preventive medicine and medicines become a publicly measurable system. The goal is healthcare in which access to a doctor does not depend on connections.
This pillar protects people who are most often left alone in crisis: pensioners, poor families, children, persons with disabilities and families caring for the most severe cases. Support must not be state charity, but a right received on time. The system must recognize real living costs and must know the quality of local services where people live so that it can intervene adequately. The goal is a state that does not forget the most vulnerable.
Serbia must be a country where people stay, work, have children and return. That is why family policy is connected with kindergartens, parental leave, a first home, labor rights and the return of the diaspora. The state should remove administrative wandering and the penalty for parenthood. The goal is a normal life, not survival through procedures.
Serbia’s European path is not an empty slogan, but a state priority with precise and clear deadlines, people working on accession and public oversight of the implementation of European reforms. Every negotiating chapter gets a responsible person and continuous public reporting, with internal coordination mechanisms to accelerate reforms, while citizens get public insight into what has been adopted and what is late. Foreign policy and diplomacy are aligned with the goal of EU membership. The goal is for Serbia to complete the key work for EU entry by 2030.
Expanding public services requires money and discipline. That is why the reforms in this pillar answer where the money comes from and how new irresponsible borrowing is prevented from covering the costs of the regime’s political programmes. Every expensive policy must have a financing source, and every major project must have a publicly available analysis and its own investment dossier. The budget must be readable, while public enterprises and subsidies enter a control regime. The goal is a state that spends for results, not for the government’s rating.
We send a signal to all citizens of Serbia, international partners and businesses that the state has changed direction. Then we transparently adopt laws that free the system from party constraints: free and fair elections, free and responsible media, efficient public administration in the service of citizens, a public sector built around people and the foundations of a strong domestic economy. The end of the captured state.
The first 24 hours show that Serbia is no longer party spoils, but a state that serves citizens and answers to the law. On day one, the new government takes control of the key levers of the captured state: the security sector, BIA, MUP, public enterprises, major state contracts and public money flows. The goal is clear: institutions must work for citizens, not for one party. Day one is not symbolic. It is an operational break with a system of pressure, blackmail, corruption and party control. Documentation is protected immediately, the largest contracts are opened, disputed decisions are halted, public oversight is introduced and institutions are set to work. After 14 years of institutional destruction, Serbia sends a clear message to citizens, business and international partners on day one: the country is changing direction. The state returns to the rule of law. Public money returns to citizens' control. Power returns to accountability. The new government has four years to carry out the reforms required for normal life, legal security, economic growth and a European Serbia. But change begins on day one: with decisions that show there are no longer untouchables, secret contracts, a party state or authority above the law.
In the first seven days the new government moves from the first urgent cuts to laying the foundations for system change. The government immediately establishes the true state of affairs: secret contracts, assumed obligations, hidden expenditures, acting appointments, discretionary payments, subsidies, public procurement and all media payments from national, provincial, local and public-enterprise budgets. After 14 years of secret contracts, party budget management and hidden public money, citizens receive the first official state-of-affairs report. The public must see how much money was spent, which obligations were assumed, where the biggest fiscal and legal risks are and which contracts immediately enter audit. In the same week, extraordinary oversight of the largest infrastructure projects begins. Contracts, annexes, permits, deadlines, quality of works, technical supervision, building safety, payments made and responsible officials are checked. The message is simple: no more hidden papers, rigged deals and public money without public control. From the first week the state begins to operate in the light of public scrutiny, with clear deadlines, responsible officials and a record of every decision.
The first 30 days turn urgent decisions into concrete plans, draft laws and the first visible benefits for citizens. The state immediately tackles problems people feel every day: healthcare waiting lists, hidden education costs, lack of kindergarten places and levies that burden citizens and businesses. The first month establishes the true state of affairs, publishes the data, sets deadlines and launches solutions. After 30 days citizens must see where the real waiting lists are, what is charged through parafiscal levies, what the hidden education costs amount to and in which municipalities kindergarten places are missing. Problems may no longer be concealed behind inaccurate records, closed databases, unclear jurisdictions and incomplete documentation. In healthcare, a review of waiting lists begins and rules are prepared so that a patient receives a service in a private institution when the state cannot provide it within the prescribed deadline. In education, a plan begins for free textbooks, school meals and a reduction of the costs parents currently pay out of pocket. In family policy, a national programme for building and expanding the kindergarten network is launched. At the same time, the Government sends the National Assembly the first reform laws that lock in system change: the electoral and media package, limits on acting status, new rules for public-private partnerships, a law on BIA, a law on the public service broadcaster and a law on a special prosecutor for high-level corruption. The first month does not solve every problem. But it sets a new rule: the state may no longer conceal the true state of affairs. Every major problem receives a public record, an owner, a deadline, a solution plan and a measurable result.
After 100 days it must be clear that the change is not just a change of government but the dismantling of the system that has captured the state. Within this deadline the new government moves from crisis control to the first major reforms. The centres of the old system must no longer have the power to block change, conceal documents, control institutions, pressure the media, rig contracts and manage public money as a party fund. In the first 100 days key laws are adopted and new systems are established: a special prosecution office for high-level corruption, a Fund for Recovering Stolen Money, a professional RIK, a new REM, public competitions for professional management in public enterprises and a new subsidy system for domestic and foreign companies. Lex specialis laws that served to bypass regular procedures, public procurement, planning oversight and accountability are abolished. Major state contracts return to the normal legal regime: public contracts, public deadlines, public prices, public control. The economy receives its first relief through cuts to parafiscal levies and the removal of unnecessary regulations that suffocate business. The new subsidy system directs public money towards innovation, productivity, new technologies, exports and domestic supply chains. At the same time, the state begins to stop the departure of key people from education and healthcare. Pay increases for teachers, doctors, nurses and other hard-to-fill positions become the first step in rebuilding public services without which normal life is impossible. After 100 days Serbia must have a new rule: elections, public money and state institutions must no longer be under the control of a party, pressure and blackmail. The state returns to the law, to citizens and to the public interest.
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A legal compensation model is established for pensions reduced from 2014 to 2018, with payment in installments and the right of heirs of deceased pensioners.
Minimum pensions are legally linked to the minimum wage, so that no pensioner falls below the level of basic survival.
Pension policy is conducted so that the average pension reaches and remains at no less than half of the average wage.
Citizens older than 65 without a pension, income or property they can live from receive a social pension of 24,000 dinars.
Pensioners with the lowest incomes receive free necessary medicines, clear examination appointments and priority for preventive checkups.
All students in primary and secondary schools receive free textbooks for every school year.
All students in primary and secondary schools receive free meals during the school year.
Secondary school becomes compulsory for all students in Serbia.
Classes in primary and secondary schools are reduced to no more than 20 students.
Students in vocational schools do internships only with licensed employers, with a trained mentor, a safe workplace, a clear learning plan and mandatory compensation.
New laboratories, libraries, reading rooms, student dormitories, digital equipment and other research infrastructure.
Investments go into the reconstruction and construction of new student dormitories, reading rooms, libraries and equipment that students use every day.
For every study program, accreditation, number of teachers, student-to-professor ratio, pass rates, length of study and graduate employability are publicly published.
If a faculty or study program loses accreditation, students are provided with transfer to an accredited program, recognition of lawfully passed exams or completion of studies under a special regime.
Universities are also financed according to teaching quality, student support, cooperation with the economy, international projects and graduate employability.
Every child receives a legal right to a place in nursery, kindergarten or an accredited early development program no later than 12 months after applying.
Children of employed parents, single parents, families with three or more children, returnees, shortage occupations and vulnerable groups receive a place within 6 months.
If the municipality does not provide a place in a public kindergarten, it automatically finances an accredited private kindergarten through a voucher.
The family receives a flexible leave fund: 18 months for the first and second child, 24 months for the third and each subsequent child, with a non-transferable father's quota.
A monthly child tax credit is introduced: 10,000 dinars for the first child, 15,000 for the second, 25,000 for the third and 30,000 for the fourth and each subsequent child.
The state finances medically justified IVF without hidden costs, introduces clear deadlines and creates a fast pathway for fertility preservation before serious treatment.
The base net salary of a teacher with a full teaching load is gradually raised to 250,000 dinars through a new pay matrix for education.
Teachers working in systematized and permanent positions move from fixed-term to indefinite employment, except when they are truly replacing an absent employee.
Teachers of mathematics, physics, IT, chemistry, vocational subjects and teachers in municipalities with staff shortages receive a supplement of 10% to 25%.
Classes in primary and secondary schools are reduced to no more than 20 students.
Teachers in shortage subjects, smaller municipalities and schools that struggle to retain staff receive priority in affordable housing programs.
Preschool teachers receive clear coefficients according to education, experience, responsibility for the group and work with children who need additional support.
Preschool teachers working in jobs that are permanently needed by the institution move to indefinite employment, ending the practice of chained temporary contracts.
Expansion of capacity is accompanied by hiring new preschool teachers, nurse-educators, expert associates and assistants.
A child's right to a kindergarten place within 12 months creates the need for new preschool teachers and a stronger preschool system.
Preschool teachers in municipalities with staff shortages and long waiting lists enter affordable housing programs for shortage public services.
The base salary of a doctor gradually reaches 400,000 dinars, and the base salary of a nurse/technician reaches 200,000 dinars.
Healthcare workers in primary care, small municipalities, underdeveloped areas and shortage specialties receive special financial incentives.
Every hospital and health center gets a plan for needed doctors, nurses, technicians and associates according to patient numbers, waiting lists and local needs.
Institutions and teams that shorten waiting lists and achieve good outcomes receive additional funds, equipment, staffing priority and employee rewards.
Work schedules, shifts, overtime, days off, congresses, attendance records and advancement are regulated by public rules.
Acting status lasts no more than 60 days, without extension and without reappointing the same person to the same post.
Managerial and expert positions are filled through public competitions, clear requirements, scoring, ranked lists and a reasoned selection decision.
A job catalog, clear coefficients, supplements and advancement rules are introduced, and salary depends on job complexity, responsibility, competencies, results and training.
An employee who reports political pressure, transfer, demotion or threat of dismissal receives protection, and when abuse is proven, return to work, compensation or other legal satisfaction follows.
Citizens and employees see the case status, deadline, responsible person and next step in the procedure, reducing pressure, waiting and hidden accountability.
The worker receives wages through an account, within the agreed deadline and in the declared amount, while an employer who is late or pays part cash-in-hand enters priority inspection.
Working time is recorded digitally or through a verifiable system, so shifts, breaks, days off and extra hours do not depend on oral agreement.
Overtime, night work, Sunday work and holiday work must be recorded and paid at an increased rate, with a clear trail for the worker and inspection.
A worker in a factory, retail, hospitality, security, delivery, platform work, agency work or work from home has a written contract, registration, vacation, sick leave and legal protection.
The worker receives a voucher for training or retraining in occupations that are actually in demand: digital skills, trades, industrial maintenance, logistics, care, green economy and food processing.
Operational work of the police, army and security structures is freed from party command and political pressure.
Uniformed employees who refuse an unlawful order or report pressure receive institutional protection from retaliation, transfer and demotion.
Advancement is tied to expertise, results, training, experience and integrity checks, not political loyalty.
Priority goes to protective equipment, training, vehicles, communication systems, psychological support and occupational safety.
Supplements for risk, shifts, duty, field work and special assignments are regulated by clear and verifiable rules.
A single public register of fees, charges and mandatory payments is introduced, with the goal of reducing administrative and parafiscal burden by at least 25%.
A self-employed person sees taxes, contributions, deadlines, decisions, applications, permits, notices and the status of all obligations toward the state in one place.
For small entrepreneurs without serious violations, the rule applies: first an order to correct and a deadline to remove irregularities, and a fine only if the order is not fulfilled.
The state, public enterprises and large buyers pay within the prescribed deadline, and delay automatically carries default interest and a public debt trail.
Small self-employed workers gain access to more favorable credit lines, guarantees and vouchers for equipment, digital tools, standards, certificates and sales expansion.
Profit that remains in the company and is invested in equipment, technology, new facilities, research and development, energy efficiency or employment is exempt from tax.
State support goes to machinery, automation, robotics, software, energy efficiency, exports, certificates and inclusion of domestic companies in supplier chains.
Compliant companies have fewer inspections, clear Tax Administration opinions and digital status for cases, permits, applications and requests.
Domestic companies receive vouchers for introducing AI tools, process automation, production digitalization, data analytics and cooperation with research teams.
Public procurement, subsidies, permits, inspections and payments receive a digital trail, deadlines, responsible persons and publicly verifiable decisions.
The farmer knows the right, amount, deadline and payment status in advance, and every subsidy has a publicly published rulebook, digital application and deadline by which the state must pay.
Priority goes to irrigation, drainage, hail protection, field roads and local storage facilities.
The state finances equipment, cold storage, dryers, warehouses, joint market presence and the negotiating strength of small producers.
Support goes to small processing capacities: dairies, dryers, cold storage, fruit and vegetable processing, packaging and quality standards.
Stronger support is introduced for insurance of crops, livestock and equipment, as well as a crisis mechanism for sectors hit by drought, disease, sudden price drops or market closure.
Families without income, victims of violence, elderly people without support, people without housing and families hit by fire, flood or sudden loss of income receive emergency support within 72 hours.
No right is automatically revoked; the beneficiary receives notice, a deadline to explain, a conversation with a professional worker and a fast review within 15 days.
Anyone who gets a job or starts working legally keeps part of social assistance and child allowance during the transition period, so the first salary does not automatically mean loss of support.
Thresholds and amounts of child allowance are raised for poor families, single parents and children with disabilities, with the introduction of parent-caregiver status.
Municipalities develop home help, day care centers, personal companions, personal assistants, support for children with developmental difficulties, elderly people and families in crisis.
Every person who has been looking for work for a longer time gets their own adviser, skills assessment, employment plan and follow-up after employment.
For every unemployed person, the National Employment Service creates a skills profile: education, experience, occupations they are ready for and barriers to employment.
An unemployed person receives a voucher for training with accredited providers, for occupations that are actually in demand.
For people who struggle to reach a first or new job, subsidized internships, a workplace mentor and links with local employers are introduced.
People aged 50+, women outside the labor market, persons with disabilities and the long-term unemployed receive more intensive adviser work, transport support, workplace adaptation and a workplace mentor.
A returnee gets one administrative path for documents, residence, taxes, healthcare, school, work, recognition of diplomas and starting a business.
Diplomas, professional qualifications and work experience from abroad are recognized through clear deadlines, electronic case status and a simpler procedure.
Returnees receive a clear tax status, a guide for declaring income and a special regime for the first years after return.
A returnee and family receive simple registration for health insurance, choice of doctor and digital request status.
Children of diaspora returnees enter a priority group for kindergarten and nursery, with a 6-month deadline for a place in a public or accredited program.
Every negotiating chapter gets a responsible person, expert team, deadlines and work plan, while a public portal shows what has been adopted, what is being implemented and where there is a delay.
Euro payments under SEPA rules become simpler, cheaper and more predictable.
Through CEOP 2.0, an investor sees planning status, ownership, encumbrances, infrastructure capacity, deadlines and responsible bodies in advance.
State aid goes to projects that bring technology, automation, research and development, exports, higher wages, training, green and digital transformation and domestic suppliers.
Major projects, subsidies, permits and payments receive a digital trail, public dossier, deadlines and responsible persons.
The state funds five-year positions for the best young researchers from Serbia and Serbian researchers from abroad, with funds for a laboratory and mentoring support.
Researchers receive a basic budget for equipment, materials, conferences and work with a team, with less bureaucratic proof.
A technology transfer system is introduced: rules on intellectual property, revenue sharing and standard contracts for cooperation with the economy.
Researchers are allowed to be founders, co-owners or advisers of companies that arise from publicly funded research.
Industrial doctorates and vouchers for applied research are introduced so companies can solve concrete technological problems with faculties, institutes and research teams.
The new public media service employs professional journalists, editors, technical and production staff who did not participate in party management, propaganda and censorship.
Management candidates go through a public competition, publication of biographies, work program, interview, integrity check and reasoned decision.
The public service introduces at least 3 socio-political debate shows per week, with different political and expert views represented.
A clear journalist safety plan and rapid protection by the police and prosecution.
A register of all public advertising and sponsorship contracts is introduced, and media that repeatedly spread hate speech, target people or violate the code lose the right to public funding.
At least 20% of the Ministry of Culture's competition budget goes to contemporary creation, the independent scene and young authors.
Institutions and organizations with proven results can receive a 3-year program contract, with annual evaluation of results.
Public money can go only to programs with clear rules for fair work, payment of artists and associates, good governance and accessibility to audiences.
In the first four years, at least 100 cultural centers, libraries, cinemas, galleries and youth spaces are renovated.
Every municipality receives at least 12 quality cultural programs per year through guest performances by theaters, museums, galleries, orchestras, film centers and independent productions.