From ethnic reconciliation to the limits of stabilocracy, with a focus on the role of students and the younger generation. A joint interview with Professors Jelena Jerinić and Arben Hajrullahu exploring the prospects for Serbia and Kosovo

22/05/2026, Jens Woelk  Trento

Last Sunday, Bulgaria won the Eurovision Song Contest for the first time. Dara’s triumph with her song “Bangaranga” is not merely a musical victory: it offers Bulgarians themselves a snapshot of their society, having emerged from the transition period and now faced with new challenges

18/05/2026, Francesco Martino  Sofia

From deportation to “intrinsically pathogenic” detention centers prior to expulsion to “betraying the patient” through doctors’ obligation to report undocumented people. An interview with infectious disease specialist Nicola Cocco, a member of the Italian Society of Migration Medicine (SIMM) and the Mai più Lager – No CPR network

15/05/2026, Federico Baccini  Brussels

After being presented in Rovereto and Belgrade, th photography exhibition by Mario Boccia on the siege of Sarajevo was inaugurated on 5 May in Zagreb in the presence of a large and moved audience. It will remain in the Croatian capital until 30 June

15/05/2026, Giovanni Vale 

The Vjosa in Albania is one of Europe’s last wild rivers. Now a national park, it is, in theory, fully protected from source to mouth. Despite these safeguards, however, tensions soon arose, particularly between environmental activists and those who view the river as an economic and tourist resource

12/05/2026, Arbjona Çibuku  Tirana

After nearly ten years working as a consultant for European fund projects, entrepreneur Ovidiu Ișan decided it was time for a radical change: he gave up drafting projects for others and set out to build his own.

11/05/2026, Bogdan Grosereanu