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    History and memory

    “No one will hurt you” is the phrase uttered repeatedly during the days of the Srebrenica genocide, to civilians who were later murdered. Dino Hodić, who as a child managed to escape with his family shortly before the outbreak of the war, chose it as the title of his documentary. Our interview

    08/07/2026, Nicole Corritore 

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    Integration into the EU

    A recent study compares the existing legal frameworks governing relations between the EU and candidate countries, with the aim of facilitating their gradual integration into the Union. The research pays particular attention to the link between enlargement and cohesion policy in light of the future EU Multiannual Financial Framework.

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    Flamingo Revolution

    A delegation of Members of the European Parliament joined the Flamingo Revolution currently taking place in Tirana, calling on the Albanian government to provide greater protection for nature, tackle corruption, and ensure greater transparency and democracy

    03/07/2026, Erisa Kryeziu  Tirana

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    economy

    Wine in Moldova is one of the main exports to the EU. With the 2006 Russian embargo and the country’s new direction, Moldova has increasingly oriented itself towards the EU market. We interviewed Margherita Gobbat, a researcher at the Research Center for East European Studies (FSO) at the University of Bremen, Germany, and the Center for Social Sciences (CSS), Georgia

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    Political repression

    Academics, journalists, lawyers, trade unionists and representatives of civil society have been arrested on arbitrary grounds in Turkey in the run-up to the forthcoming NATO summit, scheduled to take place in Ankara on 7 and 8 July. According to the opposition, the hundreds of arrests are aimed at preventing any form of protest or dissent

    01/07/2026, Burcu Karakaş  Istanbul

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    Investments

    In early June, Moldova, together with Ukraine, began accession negotiations with the EU. On that occasion, a conference on European investment in the country was held in Chișinău to try to answer the question: In what areas should the Moldovan economy—one of the poorest on the continent—specialize?