NGO-cracy is holding Serbia back on its path to the EU: How the civil sector became a parallel centre of power without accountability

While for years the public has been sold the story of the "development of civil society" and "citizen involvement", sources close to donor circles claim that for a long time Serbia has in fact been operating under a completely different model, a closed system of privileged NGOs, in which money, influence and access circulate endlessly among the same organisations. According to interlocutors familiar with the processes in Brussels, the bureaucracy of the European