Some ‘sovereigntists’ in the EU dream of an alternative to Brussels, but even Russia admits that BRICS cannot yet provide what they want. Aleksandar Vulin, Serbia’s then deputy prime minister, told TASS in October 2024 that citizens would have to choose, within two or three years, between the European Union and BRICS in a referendum. […] BRICS and mortarless was originally published on Emerging Europe.