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‘Constant Comments’: Transgender, Non-Binary Serbs Detail Job Discrimination

Transgender, non-binary and gender-variant individuals in Serbia say they face discrimination in the job market, involving frequent insulting and inappropriate remarks.

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Italian Students Create Phone Charging Station to Help Migrants Cross Balkans

School students in Verona working with an NGO have created a new phone-charging station model to support migrants and refugees cross the Balkans on their way to the EU.

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Italian Students Create Phone Charging Station to Help Migrants Cross Balkans

School students in Verona working with an NGO have created a new phone-charging station model to support migrants and refugees cross the Balkans on their way to the EU.

Kosovo-Serbia Declaration on Missing Persons Remains Unimplemented

The head of the Kosovo government’s Missing Persons Commission said the EU’s foreign policy chief hasn’t replied to concerns about last year’s declaration with Serbia on finding missing persons from the 1998-99 war, which isn’t being implemented yet.

Serbian Convictions for Kosovo Massacres ‘Too Little, Too Late’

Moldova Condemns Breakaway Region’s Push for New ‘Security’ Post

Romania’s Ex-President Iliescu Grilled Over ‘Mineriada Case’

Kosovo Ex-Guerrilla Officer Sylejman Selimi Cleared of Assaulting Prisoner

‘Constant Comments’: Transgender, Non-Binary Serbs Detail Job Discrimination

Italian Students Create Phone Charging Station to Help Migrants Cross Balkans

Kosovo-Serbia Declaration on Missing Persons Remains Unimplemented

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Poll Finds Concerns About Media Freedom on the Rise in Slovakia and Hungary

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‘Like North Korea’: Ukrainian Men in Poland Express Anger at Consular Service Suspension

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Why Slovakia’s Next President Won’t Be an Original

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April 26, 2024

‘Constant Comments’: Transgender, Non-Binary Serbs Detail Job Discrimination

Transgender, non-binary and gender-variant individuals in Serbia say they face discrimination in the job market, involving frequent insulting and inappropriate remarks.

April 26, 2024

Democracy Digest: Orban Opens CPAC as Radical Right Comes to Town

Elsewhere, Polish prosecutors to also investigate Pegasus use; former Czech MP’s rape sentence confirmed; and a black day for Slovak public broadcaster RTVS.

April 26, 2024

Serbia Opposition’s Collapse Will Cost it Dearly in Elections

Serbia’s main opposition coalition has fallen apart because its members could not agree on whether to go to the polls in June – and the risk is that they will now win far fewer votes.

April 25, 2024

Week in Review: Tough Dilemmas and Questionable Motives

A string of elections, parliamentary committees and arbitration processes pose tough choices for those entangled as well as opening the question of motives driving developments, yet not all is bleak in the Balkans.

April 25, 2024

Poll Finds Concerns About Media Freedom on the Rise in Slovakia and Hungary

Compared to last year’s survey, worries in Slovakia grew by 3 points, but fell 18 points in Poland. This reflects political changes, such as Fico assuming power in Slovakia and trying to turn public broadcaster into a government mouthpiece.

April 25, 2024

‘Like North Korea’: Ukrainian Men in Poland Express Anger at Consular Service Suspension

Up to a hundred Ukrainian citizens, mostly men, were gathered on Wednesday in front of a passport centre in Warsaw, unable to pick up their documents, after Kyiv suspended consular services as part of a drive to increase conscription.

April 25, 2024

Week in Review: Tough Dilemmas and Questionable Motives

A string of elections, parliamentary committees and arbitration processes pose tough choices for those entangled as well as opening the question of motives driving developments, yet not all is bleak in the Balkans.

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