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  • Posters glorifying Ratko Mladić, the ‘Serb’ – Wikimedia Commons
    Politics and war crimes

    It is a divided Serbia that yesterday received Ratko Mladić’s coffin and is preparing to lay him to rest. The division is not only between those who believe him to be innocent and those who believe him to be guilty, but also between government supporters and its opponents, in light of the election campaign that has already effectively begun ahead of the general election scheduled for next October

    04/09/2026, Massimo Moratti 

  • Cartoonist Boban Pesov, author of the graphic novel “Once upon a time there was the East”. Photo: private archive
    Cartoons

    Boban Pesov is an Italian cartoonist of Macedonian origin. Last year, he published his first graphic novel, “Once upon a time there was the East”, which tells three stories from Italy and North Macedonia. With this interview, we announce his new comic column on OBCT

    03/09/2026, Giovanni Vale 

  • Skopje, North Macedonia © Mo Wu/Shutterstock
    anniversary

    North Macedonia is celebrating 35 years of independence, but has made no progress on its main strategic goal: EU membership. The VMRO government is now demanding guarantees before making concessions to neighboring Bulgaria’s demands

    03/09/2026, Aleksandar Samardjiev  Tetovo

  • A Global Sumud Flotilla vessel flying the Albanian and Palestinian flags - Photo courtesy of Vjolanda Peca

    On August 21, three vessels from the Global Sumud Flotilla set sail for Vlora. On board, Albanian and Palestinian activists were determined to demonstrate that the Mediterranean is a political space and that the struggles erupting on its shores can be interconnected

    31/08/2026, Dalia Ismail, Elira Kadriu 

  • © Pilotsevas/Shutterstock
    Cohesion policy

    Although originally designed to decarbonise the EU’s poorest economy, Brussels’ cohesion policy has ended up supporting a textbook example of the ‘Jevons paradox’

    31/08/2026, Vladislava Peeva 

  • Belgrade, Serbia © Roman023_photography/Shutterstock

    Serbia’s independent media are currently experiencing a new turbulent phase, following yet another change of ownership. Is this another attempt by the Serbian government to silence the non-aligned press? A recap of what has happened over the last year

    28/08/2026, Giorgio Russo