Southeastern Europe

Ivana Hadjievska on the problem of neighbourhood - or the problem of people living next to each other and North Macedonia's accession to the EU.

Who will win this year's Eurovision Song Contest?

Elodie Phillips digs through the archives of past Eurovision winners in an entertaining review of this bizarre and beautiful non-political political competition.

Owen Howells on whether a recently leaked Slovenian paper will cause trouble on the European continent.

Daniela Antonovska argues for the need to challenge gender norms to transform North Macedonia's political scene and build an equal society.

February 1 marked the anniversary of the national remembrance of the victims of Communism in Bulgaria. On this date in 1945, the People’s Court handed down death penalties to a large number of [...]

‘The whole world is in revolt. Soon there will be only five Kings left—the King of England, the King of Spades, the King of Clubs, the King of Hearts, and the King of Diamonds.’ So King Farouk of [...]

February editorial. Much news has been made of ‘vaccine nationalism’ in the wake of the recent conflict between the EU Commission, the pharmaceutical companies such as AstraZeneca, and third [...]

Prime Minister Edi Rama is the author of a new way of doing politics in Albania, focusing on aesthetics and strategic communication, which gave him the name of ‘pop-politician’. The astonishing [...]

One of my favourite things about the upcoming holidays is the amount of time I can spend on reading. Every year, I find at least one book under the Christmas tree and usually, I finish it before [...]