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Tales from the Region

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...

Montenegro’s road to the EU is paved with disinformation

19.04.23

Montenegro officially started negotiations with the European Union (EU) on June 29, 2012. On its path to integration, like the rest of Europe and the world, it was not and is not resistant to the power of propaganda, disinformation, and fake...

Macedonia and the EU: The negotiation framework is too narrow for the (dis)information

12.04.23

This was a start mired with confusion, uncertainty, political drama, and countless questions about whether Macedonia actually managed to hop on the European train or the train escaped yet...

Serbian and Russian disinformation – a threat to the democratic processes of Kosovo

07.04.23

Disagreements among Western Balkan countries on initiatives such as "Open Balkans" and the gaps created due to the uncertainty of the European integration processes create the ground for external actors such as Serbia, Russia, and China to push for their...

People in Albania are tired of Brussels’ lip service

04.04.23

The problem with information around EU accession is the belief that the EU’s statements of support for the country’s accession are little more than lip...

WIll 2023 bring hope to the EU enlargement perspective of the Western Balkans?

26.12.22

One major issue pertaining to the EU enlargement policy remains Kosovo. EU candidate status for Bosnia and Herzegovina leaves Kosovo as the last remaining country in the region to not have a clear path toward the...
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