Inside a Divided City – A Report from Gornji Vakuf-Uskoplje
The ethnic war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, taking place from 1992-1995, was one of the worst armed conflicts in Europe after World War 2. Between 1 and 2 million people ...
The Chinese Middle Kingdom Meets the Balkans
China’s rise has shifted global power dynamics in a way that is still yet to be seen, mostly because China is still rising and what it, or other global powers, ...
Investing in Foreign Investments – what can Macedonia learn from Poland and the Czech Republic?
Macedonia is known to be one of the best countries for foreign investments in Southeast Europe due to the many incentives that the government is offering. However, there are many ...
One would expect a country that has only received one other Oscar nomination in its 30-year history – in the now-distant 1995 – to be pretty happy about getting two in ...
As we are entering the pivotal week for understanding how Brexit is going to untangle, there are obvious reasons to be anxious. If the EU will extend the negotiation period ...
After gaining their membership in NATO, and especially after the big-bang EU enlargement of 2004, the Visegrad countries (Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia), used their political, diplomatic and economic ...
Around this time last year, the European Union released its Strategy for the Western Balkans, where the “credible enlargement perspective” for the six remaining “Western Balkan” countries was reiterated. Some ...
After the fall of Yugoslavia, the former Yugoslav republics, striving to gain their independence, started celebrating a certain Independence Day that was formally chosen during their secession from Yugoslavia. Bosnia ...
One more bilateral dispute is resolved at Europe’s doorstep as the disagreement over Macedonia’s name comes to an end. After surviving a confidence vote in parliament and dodging countless external ...
Co-author: Sabin Selimi The concern is not whether the EU fails to create functioning and stable countries, but that the EU’s engagement in the region leads to a loss of ...
This article is written by Lazar Pop Ivanov and Marija Mirchevska. Pop Ivanov holds an MA in International Relations from King’s College London and an LLM from the Faculty of ...
The political crisis in Macedonia that began in 2015 and allegedly ended with the change of government in 2017 seems to be as relevant as ever to understand the current ...
Originally published by EURACTIV. Macedonia is still going through a painful reconstruction as a society. But if we really believe that the Western Balkans region belongs in Europe, it ...