Good exchange w/ Andi Dobrushi, Director of Open Society Foundation WB & Lura Limani ED Kosovo Foundation for Open Society. Discussed #enlargement & opportunities to boost cooperation, notably to ensure striving civil society in the WB. This is a joint priority for the region's🇪🇺path

“Traveling in Kosovo is a masterclass in the art of hospitality; any tiny interaction unravels into hearty welcomes and long conversations, no mutual language required.” ⁦Condé Nast Traveler⁩ cntraveler.com/story/kosovo-e…

Very pleased to have met with "think tanks" Jacques Delors Institute Carnegie Democracy Clingendael Institute DGAP at the Quai d'Orsay France Diplomatie 🇫🇷🇪🇺 / useful exchange on stability and political issues in the Balkans

In anticipation of Emmanuel Macron speech, the ‘Balkan Hubs’ DGAP Jacques Delors Institute Clingendael Institute Carnegie Europe had a fruitful exchange with🇫🇷peers. #EU 🇪🇺enlargement at the core of our discussions. France Diplomatie 🇫🇷🇪🇺 rené troccaz Alexandre Adam

Powerful and poignant: 'Ukraine: A War Crime' exhibition now open at Barabar Centre (Grand Hotel). Through 360+ striking photos and 30 eyewitness accounts, it sheds light on the ongoing conflict's harsh realities and quest for justice. A vital advocacy tool supported by OSF-WB.

“The casual scribbles of schoolchildren done on their desks in moments of boredom or distraction reveal the fantasies and dreams of their minds." — Petrit Halilaj (Petrit Halilaj) NOW ON VIEW—See the 2024 Roof Garden Commission: Petrit Halilaj, "Abetare" → met.org/PetritHalilaj

📽️ Last night at Kino Armata: a riveting discussion with @svetlanabach and Brendan Hoffman on the photo book "Ukraine: A War Crime," moderated by @luralim. Then, a gripping screening of "20 Days in Mariupol" in collaboration with Dokufest & Kino ARMATA.

Exciting news! 🚀🎉 The #BerlinProcess “Civil Society and Think Tank Forum” is beginning with a survey leading up to our Prep Forum on July 9-11, co-organized by Südosteuropa-Gesellschaft. Give your input by 20/5 ➡️ forms.office.com/e/gXH7YFGNNQ #CSFBerlin #AspenWB #BerlinProcess10

📢Calling all Western Balkans think tanks and organisations! Join us in shaping the main programme at this year's BSC by submitting your proposal for a panel discussion! More information⬇️ belgradesecurityconference.org/call-for-propo…

Job alert: Bruegel is looking for an experienced economist to join their team in Brussels - it's a full-time research position to produce work on the Balkans bruegel.org/careers/econom…

Trump once shunned Project 2025 as ‘ridiculous.’ Now he's staffing up with them. politi.co/48Yga57 via POLITICO

The claims that the Open Society Foundations, founded by George Soros, receive funding from USAID or direct the funding of a multibillion-dollar U.S. government agency are manifestly false. These allegations are part of a broader effort to undermine international development work

The German Neo-Nazi party that JD Vance embraced complained that Germans were “the only people in the world who’ve planted a monument of shame at the heart of their capital” — the Holocaust memorial — and that they need “a 180-degree turnaround.” trib.al/Cm1kiJp

Barbara Halla on Tirana's commodification and transformation into an 'inorganic city'. "An inorganic city is an exceedingly privatized one, as the focus is less about making a city livable, as much as commodifying every experience." full-stop.net/2025/03/27/fea…

Last week Instituti D4D hosted Carnegie Europe, DGAP, Jacques Delors Institute and Clingendael Institute for a 3-day study trip to Kosovo. For more: rb.gy/bwaj6h

“I feel a troubling kind of opacity in my brain lately—as if reality were becoming illegible, as if language were a vessel with holes in the bottom and meaning was leaking all over the floor.” Jia Tolentino writes about how the internet broke her brain. nyer.cm/Ovegexl

Are you a woman saving up on menstrual products? Trying to make them last longer than prescribed, or using reusable products? Tell us your story. 👇 balkaninsight.com/2025/05/15/sha…

Review: Two new books, “The Einstein of Sex” and “The Intermediaries,” argue for the largely forgotten importance of Magnus Hirschfeld, a German doctor who was a pioneer of gay and trans medicine before the Nazis took power. wapo.st/3G5JRHs