Faculty of Philosophy, University of Novi Sad

As an employer, it cut staff salaries solely on the basis of letters from the Ministry of Education, and the Court of Appeal in Novi Sad found that such automatic withholding was unlawful. A professor who won that case lost his job in early summer 2026, which legal experts, according to Autonomija, see as political retaliation.

Affairs

• Police beat students outside the Faculty of Philosophy in Novi Sad
• Police raid on the Faculty of Philosophy in Novi Sad
• Attacks on journalists
• Pressure on universities and professors' salaries: Its Election Council supported Professor Mihić's re-election; his employment ended when the Senate's decision was delivered to the faculty
• Government decree and professors' pay cuts: It withheld part of its employees' salaries solely on the basis of a ministry letter, which the Court of Appeal in Novi Sad ruled unlawful

People

• Milivoj Alanović: dean of the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Novi Sad