The leaders of Serbia, Macedonia and Albania say they want a Balkan mini-Schengen. Their project is thoroughly wrong — in its name and content.
Southeast Europe is the most historic region of the continent. It was originally named Europe to …
The leaders of Serbia, Macedonia and Albania say they want a Balkan mini-Schengen. Their project is thoroughly wrong — in its name and content.
Southeast Europe is the most historic region of the continent. It was originally named Europe to …
The bitter history of Old Europe must never repeat itself. Yugoslavia: Death of a Nation by Laura Silber and Allan Little is one of the most acclaimed books on the violent dissolution of the former European federation.
Penguin Books has …
Law professor Blerim Reka is running against two candidates from the Slav majority. But while ethnic Albanians make up about a third of the population, reasons to choose Reka are more numerous.
This month will be the sixth time that …
— a short story —
I’m telling my friend here about an expat living in Cascadia—or Cascadie, as you call it in French? Rex Dunguy. He’s traveled the world, and was one of the people who toppled communism in …
The U.S. constitution doesn’t mention capitalism. Or the market economy. The Supreme Court hears economic regulation cases quite superficially, because the United States isn’t officially a capitalist state. But the Court applies the strictest standard, for example, to complaints that …
It is like plagiarism. If you use someone’s stuff and hold it out as yours, it’s wrong. Otherwise it’s just cultural diffusion, like adopting the Latin or Korean alphabet for a previously unwritten language.
We eat chocolate, a European variety …
The Most Serene Republic of Kosovo, known by its native heirs and many righteous friends as Kosova or Dardania, celebrates its 10th Independence Day and the 2410th anniversary of its King Bardylis.
The history of Dardania is as ancient as …
Could you imagine Microsoft’s spellchecker giving you that wavy underline every time you use a split infinitive? Some grammar Nazis once said we couldn’t write “I’m glad to finally meet you,” because we can’t split to and meet in Latin. …
The European soccer organization has admitted Kosova (Kosovo) as its newest member, bringing an end to a quarter-century period of isolation for the small country.
Kosova began organizing association football independently of the former Yugoslavia 26 years ago, but was …
March 7, 1887: Korça, Albania — Albanian patriots opened the first desegregated, secular school in what was then the Ottoman Empire, a country that spanned across three continents. 35 students of different religions and social backgrounds attended classes in their …