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 

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 

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 

Georgia has joined the group of countries that repress dissent beyond its national borders. For several years now, there has been a growing number of cases of opponents of the Georgian Dream party being reached abroad and subjected to illegal arrests, threats and intimidation. The third and final part of our in-depth analysis

28/08/2026, Marilisa Lorusso 

In recent years, across Europe and beyond, there has been a proliferation of transparency regulations for media outlets and NGOs receiving foreign funding. The deeper threat to civil society, however, isn’t foreign funding. It’s that domestic funding doesn’t exist.

27/08/2026, Alexander Kaffka  Tbilisi

On 8 July, the European Parliament adopted what several MEPs called a historic resolution: the first official EU recognition of the sexual violence committed against women and girls during Turkey’s 1974 invasion of Cyprus. What this development could set in motion is only beginning to unfold

26/08/2026, Mary Drosopoulos  Strasbourg