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  • Kakanj, Bosnia Erzegovina © betibup33/Shutterstock
    Activism and environment

    In Bosnia and Herzegovina environmental activism is proving to be a transversal phenomenon, capable of uniting diverse social groups and overcoming ethnic and religious divisions fueled by political elites. The third episode of our reportage

    08/04/2026, Peter Lippman 

  • OBC-Transeuropa-a-Perugia-14-16-aprile-2026

    Are you going to be in Perugia? Do you know people interested in grassroots journalism? OBCT welcomes the public at the International Journalism Festival in Perugia to a series of meetings dedicated to transnational journalism, its opportunities, and the challenges that lie ahead.

    07/04/2026, Redazione 

  • Hunting with Italian guests near Cerknica in 1959. © Silvana Orel Kos http://stareslike.cerknica.org/
    History

    Socialist Yugoslavia was for decades a favored destination for Italian hunters and anglers. A territory they came to know well and where they formed many bonds. A study explores the origins of this phenomenon, beginning with the border region

    03/04/2026, Urška Strle 

  • Mostar, Stari Most. Foto: Nicole Corritore
    EXTINGUISHED COUNTRIES

    The Ottoman period, in several European countries, is often viewed very negatively, as a long occupation during which nothing good happened. But was it really so? An interview with Emir O. Filipović, professor of medieval history at the University of Sarajevo, as part of the Extinguished Countries project – guidebooks to countries that no longer exist

    02/04/2026, Giovanni Vale 

  • Transcarpathia © Dmytro Stoliarenko/Shutterstock

    A few days before the Hungarian elections on April 12, Budapest and Kyiv find themselves at the center of a diplomatic crisis involving the EU. To understand this, we need to take a few steps back: the Hungarian minority in the Ukrainian region of Transcarpathia and the evolution of relations between the two countries

    01/04/2026, Claudia Bettiol  Kyiv

  • If the Western Balkans, Ukraine, Moldova, and Georgia were to join the Union, current member states would face a redistribution of EU funds, but they could also seize new opportunities. We discussed this with Zsolt Darvas of the Bruegel think tank

    01/04/2026, Federico Baccini  Brussels