A robust railway network is seen as part of Europe’s decarbonisation strategy. But the railways in the Balkans have been long neglected and the modernisation process is slow.Read the full article
“Each group exaggerates the crimes it has suffered, and minimises the crimes committed by its members or institutions. There is not even a consensus on what to call the war in Bosnia: civil war, war of aggression, war of religions.”Read the full article
From Serbia to Bosnia, from Croatia to Slovenia, volunteers assisting refugees stranded along the Balkan route face animosity, obstruction and harassment.Read the full article
Bosnia’s 25-year-olds are the same age as their country’s constitution. But with the promise of “peace, justice, tolerance, and reconciliation” fading with each passing year, many young people are looking to start new lives elsewhere.Read the full article
The Dayton Accords, which ended the war in 1995, reserve privileges for the country’s three largest ethnic groups – Bosniaks, Serbs and Croats – or its ‘constituent peoples’, whilst depriving ‘others’ of the right to hold public office.Read the full article
“If we don’t shed the light on who is responsible for what, there will always be suspicion on every side.”Read the full article
“Our countries don’t have sufficient funds to invest in large infrastructure projects, but China does.”Read the full article
“The demand for the creation of three versions of documents, separate television channels and school curricula cannot find justification in linguistics or the reality of the language.”Read the full article
Can the maturity of a society be measured by its relationship to its cultural heritage?Read the full article
“There are people in this country who are not living in the past; in spite of all the things that have happened here, there are people who are trying to work on themselves and focus on other things.”Read the full article
Beatings, routine smashing of smartphones, extortion – this is the plight of refugees trying to enter western Europe via Croatia.Read the full article
Some 15,000 people are employed in Bosnia’s mines. In Breza, a small town, around 20 kilometres from Sarajevo, the country’s last female miners dispel the myth that “a woman in a mine brings bad luck”.Read the full article
With thousands of frustrated doctors across the Balkans having migrated west for better pay and working conditions in recent years, who will be left to heal future generations and ageing populations?Read the full article
Authorities, paralyzed by the fear of jobs losses, close their eyes to the ‘outrageous’ levels of pollutionRead the full article
As the flood waters slowly subside across the Western Balkans, the million or so people in Bosnia & Herzegovina (BiH), Croatia and Serbia affected by the worst natural disaster to hit the region in modern history are now trying to rebuild their [...]Read the full article
