Tales from the Region

Kosovo’s Economy: Analyzing Recent Inflation and Government Responses

15.11.23

It remains to be seen if the Government learned the lesson and if insights from experience will be reflected in the upcoming policies and the budget...

Will government salaries “survive” the crisis?

30.10.23

Minister Bujar Osmani said that his salary is important to him because he makes his living from the salary...

Montenegro: Stopping inflation on a voluntary basis

25.10.23

The government boasts of the highest GDP growth in Europe, hiding that this growth is much more due to the unfortunate people coming from the eastern part of Europe than to its economic...

The “Maldives of Europe” is sinking in a currency crisis

13.10.23

This summer saw the value of the euro fall to historic lows against the local currency, the lek, a big issue for Albania businesses that do business in Europe, or those getting paid in euro, but having to pay salaries and bills in...

Kolašin and Mojkovac: the cities of possibilities are destroyed by backward physical plans

28.07.23

Both Kolašin and Mojkovac are graced by nature of unimaginable beauty. These are small towns, to which the surrounding mountains of Bjelasica and Sinjajevina offer an entire range of development opportunities, in a clean and ecological...

Urban Inferno: Fear and Loathing of Urban Greenspaces

07.07.23

The fact that the last 50 years have seen a temperature rise of 0.5 degrees per year, as indicated by the measuring stations outside the cities, and such a trend is also recorded in the cities, has minimal impact on those in charge of urban development...

Gacko: If a place is small, it doesn’t necessarily mean it’s healthy

05.07.23

For residents of large cities in the region, the quality of life is declining. Reduction of green areas, illegal construction, overcrowding, and traffic congestion are part of everyday...

Cities and climate-resilience in Kosovo

03.07.23

Dealing with many crises at the same time, cities nowadays have to better plan for disaster reduction and response and invest in resiliency...

Albania’s green ambitions – Something of a mixed bag

30.06.23

While progress is something of a mixed bag, there are definitely improvements over the last few...

The attitude of the citizens of Serbia towards the EU in the jaws of anti-Western sentiment

03.05.23

If a referendum on Serbia's entry into the European Union were held today, 43 percent of citizens would answer "yes,” 33 percent would be against it, while one in ten does not know what to answer. Fourteen years earlier, support for Serbia's membership in the EU...

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