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Pyke Haans reviews "Housekeeping for Beginners," Goran Stolevski's latest feature film about found families and queer love in North Macedonia

Pyke Haans discusses the nation-building projects and national narratives present in the Balkans, and how they can cause more harm than good

In Skopje, museums are left to fall apart and crumble while expensive monuments are erected to support different narratives of Macedonian history.

This month, Owen Howells take a look at the newly established Open Balkan Initiative aimed at further cooperation and integration of the Western Balkans and potentially speed up the EU accession [...]

Hugo Blewett-Mundy on the EU enlargement and the Western Balkans.

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.

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

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 [...]

Following the resolution of an almost three-decades-long surreal name dispute with Greece, North Macedonia’s path to EU membership looked relatively optimistic. Until recently. On 17 November, [...]

The last few months in Bulgaria were hot and stormy, just like the county’s political scene. Although the National Assembly had a long vacation, Bulgarians were not given a break from scandals [...]