The rally, to be held in Belgrade’s central Republic Square on Monday at 4pm local time, is being organised by a Facebook group called ‘Support from Serbia to the People of Tuzla’ – a reference to the Bosnian town where protests first erupted last week.

“The best solidarity we can offer is to organize ourselves and finally place on the agenda the issue of the two-decades-long long robbery of people’s resources through wars and privatisations,” said the group’s statement.

They stressed that the rally was be staged by the people who set up the Facebook group and denied that any political organisation was behind the move.

People in more than 30 Bosnian cities protested last week demanding better living standards and government resignations. The widespread unrest saw protesters clash with police and burn government buildings, leaving scores injured and arrested.

The trigger for the protests was the sudden collapse of four formerly state-run companies that employed thousands of people in Tuzla.

Serbian Deputy Prime Minister Rasim Ljajic said on Sunday that he did not expect similar protests in Serbia.

“I do not believe that such a scenario can happen. Serbia has political stability, despite all the problems we have,” Ljajic told news agency Tanjug.

However the Serbian police union said it believed that similar demonstrations could erupt.

“It is logical that a similar scenario could be seen in Serbia, which also has a lot of miserable, unemployed people, employed people without salaries, corruption at all levels, and politically-manipulated citizens,” the police union said in a statement on Sunday.