Serbia’s striking university students have started a 24-hour blockade of a key traffic intersection in the capital Belgrade, stepping up pressure on the populist authorities over a deadly canopy collapse in November that killed 15 people.

Striking university students in Serbia have been greeted with gifts and warmth as they marched toward a central town ahead of a big rally this weekend that’s part of a months-long demonstration agains

The student movement in Serbia makes decisions by direct democracy and debates matters for hours on end, yet everything runs like clockwork. This is how the wave of student blockades at the University of Novi Sad in Serbia began on November 2 last year.