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Flavia Stähli reviews "The Ministry of Pain" by Dubravka Ugrešić - a book about memory, nostalgia, trauma, and identity after Yugoslavia’s collapse.

Georgie Archer reflects on her time hiking the Peaks of the Balkans trail, a stunning route that zig-zags over the borders between Montenegro, Kosovo and Albania in the depths of the mountains. [...]

Mathieu Lemoine reviews "The Beauty of the Donkey", a film about Kosovo’s unresolved wounds through a daughter’s return with her father.

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

For the first time since the break-up of Yugoslavia, the countries in the Western Balkans have expressed a similar, if not united, opinion on a matter of foreign affairs. Previously, the legacy [...]

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 [...]

"In the Western Balkans, there is little doubt that education remains hostage to political interests and ironically, is nobody’s responsibility" Opinion piece by Francesco Trupia and Gentiola Madhi