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Albania’s ‘demographic dividend’

Albania’s population is still comparatively young and the number of its elderly relatively low —but that could change fast

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Kosovo’s demographic destiny

Europe’s youngest state is not immune to the ageing and depopulation hollowing out societies across the Balkans.

A call for a living economy

Felwine Sarr about fault lines in the neo-liberal economic system which the Covid-19 crisis laid bare

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© Adam Šakový

The invisible curriculum

Vlado Rafael about the Slovak school system and how it creates the (self)image of Roma

Is there such a thing as European civil society?

What contribution can civil society initiatives make towards the unification of Europe, asks Kai Vöckler.

Frontex and the Western Balkans

Frontex's history of handling abuse evidence dogs Balkan expansion.

illustration by Norma Nardi©️ERSTE Stiftung

Hungary’s pandemic power grab: what happens now?

The Call with Peter Krekó

Illustration: © Ewelina Karpowiak / Klawe Rzeczy.

‘Long-term stagnation’

Croatia faces an ongoing demographic decline.

Illustration: © Ewelina Karpowiak / Klawe Rzeczy

‘Too late’

Serbia's demographic disaster can no longer be halted.

Photo: © Nikolay Doychinov

“Where did everyone go?”

The sad, slow emptying of Bulgaria’s Vidin

© Engin Akyurt / Unsplash

Living the Screenlife

How Covid-19 measures make a rule-of-law-based governance of the digital world more urgent, knows Marietje Schaake.

© Davor Puklavec / PIXSELL / EXPA / picturedesk.com

‘Superbug River’

Croatia's biggest river puts pharma pollution under the microscope.

No country for the needy

Bosnia fails to house its displaced.

©️ ERSTE Foundation, Illustration Norma Nardi

“Europe can lead the way to climate neutrality.”

Talk Europe! with Charlotte Ruhe

Photo: © BIRN / Miroslava German Širotníková

“The future of Roma people is education.”

Roma children are facing growing segregation in Slovak schools - more than in any other European country.

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