Feature stories

Drina, a long journey to the Sava

21/02/2025 -  Giovanni Vale

The last episode of our reportage along the Drina: from Višegrad towards Žepa and Mokra Gora, all the way to the Šargan Eight, a railway built in 1916 by the Habsburg administration. We talk about the past, language variations and environmental protests

Drina, Ivo Andrić and Andrićgrad

07/02/2025 -  Giovanni Vale

We continue our journey along the Drina, the river that enchanted Ivo Andrić. In this third and penultimate episode we visit the places where the great writer spent his childhood, and Andrićgrad, the controversial tourist complex designed by Emir Kusturica

BiH: Gudronska jama, a looming environmental disaster

29/01/2025 -  Sanja Mlađenović Stević

An informal group of citizens announces more decisive action to resolve the long-standing problem of Gudronska jama, a former waste oil landfill that poses a serious threat to the health of the population of Modriča and other towns in northern Bosnia and Herzegovina

Still too many Europeans have no toilet at home

30/10/2024 -  Lola García-Ajofrín Bucharest

One in six Romanians is not connected to the water or sewage network. In Bulgaria and the Baltic states the figures are also worrying – but the situation is finally improving, also thanks to European funds

Armenia, life after war

09/10/2024 -  Armine Avetisyan Yerevan

The story of Suren, 42, who moved from Nagorno-Karabakh to Armenia a year ago, after the military attack by Azerbaijan. The difficult life of a man who has already seen four wars, the everyday challenge to take care of his family

Culture and sociality, discovering the new Rijeka City library

27/09/2024 -  Nicole Corritore Rijeka

Rijeka has a new modern city library, the “Gradska knjižnica Rijeka”, in a former industrial area redeveloped and transformed into an authentic cultural hub. Our reportage

Croatia: neighbours

29/08/2024 -  Giovanni Vale Krupa

Krupa, Croatia, a village with a Serb majority and mostly depopulated after the 1995 Operation Oluja (Storm). This is where the story of two women – neighbours, friends and activists – unfolds: one is Serbian and the other Croatian

Early marriages in Armenia

23/07/2024 -  Armine Avetisyan Yerevan

Despite some impediments provided by law, the phenomenon of early marriages exists in Armenia. So much so that a new bill intends to set the minimum age for marriage at 18, without exception, and to repeal all the rules referring to early marriages and underage spouses

Bulgaria, a hub for clean technology research

04/07/2024 -  Francesco Martino Sofia

Also thanks to European cohesion funds, Bulgaria has recently equipped itself with an innovative research centre for clean technologies, to connect the Bulgarian scientific world and help citizens and institutions comply with the new ecological standards

Armenian citizenship։ a passport that helps to live

20/06/2024 -  Armine Avetisyan Yerevan

Tens of thousands of people fled to Armenia last year from Nagorno Karabakh, reconquered by arms from Azerbaijan: many are now asking for Armenian citizenship, to be able to start rebuilding their lives again