Is Kosovo Threatened by the European Far-Right? A Commentary on Forza Nuova and its Balkan Connections
The success that the Italian centre-left party Partito Democratico obtained in the administrative elections on October 3 and 4, led the press to believe...
Stranger Document: Is the EU Losing its Grip On the Western Balkans?
Followers and fans of Balkan politics were startled by the news that Slovenian PM Janez Janša has delivered a non-paper to the European Council,...
A Note on the Overnight Demolition of the Albanian National Theatre
In the early morning of the 17th of May the bulldozers of the Tirana city hall started to demolish the building that hosted the...
Italy’s Last Unexpected Eurosceptic Friend: Edi Rama and his “Lesson to Europe”
On March 29, Italian and Albanian media
reported the news of the arrival in
Italy of a team of 10 physicians and 20 nurses from Tirana...
The Politics of Difference: Italy’s Nationalist Turn and the Struggle between “New” and “Old” Italians
Nationalism
has permeated Italian politics more than other Western European countries. In
all the elections that have been held since 2018 the right-wing nationalist
parties of Lega...
Do Albanians like Fascism? An Iconographical Investigation on Social Media Material
Far right groups with fascist-like ideologies and aesthetics are not
rare in the Balkans. I am not referring to parties with nationalist and/or
irredentist programs, which...
Politics of Interests and Emotions: Serbia Between NATO and Russia
The military
training "Slavjanskoe Bratstvo - 2019" that is carried out annually
by Russian, Belorussian and Serbian troops and that started earlier in June,
has now finished...