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European parliament members call for slowdown of Serbia’s EU entry over spyware use
Twenty-nine members of the European Parliament have called for delaying Serbia's entry into the European Union over government-sponsored spyware use, citing a joint investigation by the SHARE Foundation, Amnesty International, and Citizen Lab that detected Pegasus and NoviSpy infections on Serbian activists' phones. Evidence points to Serbian government authorities behind the NoviSpy deployments, prompting demands that the European Union condition Serbia's accession on improved rule-of-law accountability and completion of a spyware investigation. The pressure on Belgrade adds to existing tensions over its response to the death of former war criminal Ratko Mladic.
Why it matters: EU policymakers and practitioners monitoring state-sponsored surveillance should track this precedent for conditioning membership on digital rights compliance, as it signals heightened scrutiny of government spyware programs and may influence similar assessments of other nations.
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