A harsh winter ahead for Albanian families

Nertila Maho

28.10.22

No one is saying that we would have been completely immune to this global crisis, but some measures could have served as a...

Operation „Ladomirova Cemetery“: Failed Russian information cover-up

Peter Dubóczi

19.10.22

While mass graves with hundreds of victims of Russian aggression are found in the Ukrainian town of Izium, one of many Russian information and influence operations is underway in Slovakia. Igor Bratchikov, the Russian ambassador to Slovakia, is disseminating propaganda...

The Bulgarian-Macedonian Hala Meets EU Hypocrisy

Radosveta Vassileva

05.08.22

While it is important to look for answers about our common history and try to discern facts from propaganda (both Bulgaria and Macedonia seem to have work to do!), is it not also important to learn to live together despite our diverging heavily politicized points of...

The rhetoric of nuclear threats as a tool for conventional warfare

Alfred Marleku

29.07.22

Even in the past - especially during the Cold War - countries with nuclear capacity have, in certain cases, demonstrated their nuclear potential by using it as a deterrent or even a threatening element against other hostile...

The ill-defined accession process is damaging to EU goals in the Western Balkans

Pyke Haans

27.07.22

The positions of the Western Balkan and Eastern-European candidate states on metrics like corruption and democracy show that there is still a long way to go in many...

Improve the deal to save Europe from itself

Ida Manton

08.07.22

“…and it became too much Rules are rules Slowly neighbours You cannot just come in and destroy what is not yours I said to them nicely Do not break my acacia trees, the winds will blow me away without them …stay away from them because I will break you...

Increasing Transparency and Compliance as a Means to Increase Trust in Parties

Omer Ajdini

Marija Miteva

Fitim Lloga

Kasijana Jovanovska

27.04.22

Political parties in North Macedonia continuously rank at the bottom of citizens’ trust in institutions and...

Serbia’s Media Caught Between Putinophilia and the New World Reality

Dinko Gruhonjić

01.04.22

It is difficult to shake the impression that this cult is on a much higher level than the cult of personality of Aleksandar Vucic...

How personal is personal data in Albania

Jona Koprencka

28.03.22

There is no more room for imagination or assumption, now we know the salaries of our neighbor, friend, cousin, a former colleague who now works elsewhere and is complaining about his/her salary, we also know the salary of the boss and the...

The EU should open its doors to the Balkans as soon as possible

Sabin Selimi

23.03.22

The EU’s most potent foreign policy instrument—the normative pull of membership—has been the best tool in the past....