North Macedonia proclaims three days of national mourning after tragic bus accident with 45 casualties
The Government of North Macedonia proclaimed three days of mourning after the tragic bus accident which happened in neighboring Bulgaria around 2 AM today, when 45 passengers of the bus owned by a NMacedonia transporter lost their lives in the motorway accident close to...
Zoo in Serbia investigates animal theft after Meta.mk’s article about smuggled lion cub Simba
The Zoological Garden in Palić, in the north of Serbia, is analyzing the footage from its security cameras near the lion cages, after the journalists from Suboticke.rs read Meta.mk's article about the lion cub Simba and sounded the alarm that the cub perhaps comes...
The Battleground: Montenegro in Crisis – Serbian Nationalist Threats
This article by Srdja Pavlovic was first published in The Battleground and is reprinted by Meta.mk with permission.
Montenegro’s Democratic Front (DF) recently issued its most significant threat to date to their partners in the ruling coalition.
Milan Knezevic, who has been recognised as the party’s...
Stanka Parac Damjanović, Balkan Network for Local Democracy: CSOs and local authorities are the “natural” partners
Stanka Parac Damjanovic, senior trainer and pedagogue, has a long standing professional experience as an NGO practitioner working in civil society development, education for active citizenship and good governance at local level. Her primary area of engagement is related with capacity building, research and...
Komparativna analiza: Učešće građana na Zapadnom Balkanu
U okviru projekta „Umrežavanje OCD za bolju lokalnu demokratiju na Balkanu", koji finansira Švedska agencija za međunarodni razvoj i saradnju (SIDA), a sprovodi Balkanska mreža za razvoj civilnog društva (BCSDN), urađene su tri uporedne studije koje ispituju nivo učešća građana u donošenju odluka na...
Comparative analysis: Citizen participation in Western Balkans
Under the work of the project “CSOs Networking for Better Local Democracy in the Balkans", funded by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA) and implemented by the Balkan Civil Society Development Network (BCSDN), three comparative studies were done that examine the level of...
Looking forward and looking back – Experience of regional CSOs co-operation and networking in the Western Balkans
Regional CSOs networking in the Balkans has become an increasingly challenging effort for the most of organizations engaged in regional initiatives fostering human rights, democracy, good governance, rule of law, reconciliation or socio economic development. One can note at least three reasons for this...
Umrežavanje organizacija civilnog društva za bolju lokalnu samoupravu
Regionalno umrežavanje organizacija civilnog društva na zapadnom Balkanu postaje je sve značajniji izazov za većinu organizacija angažovanih na regionalnim inicijativama na unapređenju poštovanja ljudskih prava, demokratije, dobrog upravljanja, vladavine prava, pomirenja ili društvenog ekonomskog razvoja. Mogu se navesti najmanje tri razloga za nezavidnu situaciju...
Global warming: Sea snot appears on Aegean Sea beaches in Chalkidiki, Greece
A slimy foam named sea snot, also known as marine mucilage, which results from global warming, has been appearing increasingly on the Greek beaches during the summer of 2021. Photos of some of the beaches on the Chalkidiki (Halkidiki) peninsula this September show that...
Idleness contest in Montenegro: Record broken, but three competitors still lie
The Ethno-village "Montenegro" at Dolna Brezna in Montenegro organized the traditional contest in laziness. The competition, pokes fun at the stereotype that Montenegrins are work-shy.
Even though the world record was brokend, the three remaining contestants were still competing this morning i.e. they were lying...
In Turkey, continuing forest fires are destroying livelihoods
This story by Doga Celik and Arzu Geybullayeva originally appeared on Global Voices on August 2, 2021. It is republished under a Creative Commons Attribution-Only license.
Since July 28, a total of 125 forest fires have raged through 21 provinces of Turkey with 8 still raging as of...
Community support is vital to women athletes: Kosovo alpinist Uta Ibrahimi
This interview by Violeta Jonchevska originally appeared on Global Voices on July 28, 2021. It is republished under a Creative Commons Attribution-Only license.
Uta Ibrahimi, an alpinist from Kosovo, is the first ethnic Albanian woman to climb Mount Everest, which she did on 22 May 2017. Afterwards, she climbed Manaslu, Cho-Oyu, Lhotse and Gasherbrum, making...
Macedonian Ministry of Foreign Affairs reacts tо inappropriate election campaign videos in Bulgaria
The Macedonian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) issued a press release as a reaction on the occasion of screening inappropriate election campaign videos in the Republic of Bulgaria, where explicit territorial claims toward Macedonia were expressed.
"In the attempts of increasing dialogue and strengthening trust,...
North Macedonia will receive additional 119,000 Pfizer vaccines from Austria through the EU’s mechanism
As part of the European Union's mechanism for providing aid for the neighboring countries and Africa, Austria announced today that by the end of August it will deliver 651,000 doses of Pfizer/BioNTech-produced vaccines. It is planned for North Macedonia to receive 119,000 doses of...
Slovenian non-paper on dissolution of Bosnia and Herzegovina published, does not envision breakup of North Macedonia
The Slovenian web site "Necenzurisano.si" published yesterday (15th of April 2021) the unofficial diplomatic document, i.e. non-paper, titled "Western Balkans - the Road Ahead", being the subject of speculations that the Slovenian Prime Minister has sent it to Brussels. The non-paper predicts dissolution of...
Slander campaign threatens Serbian civil society organizations and independent media
During recent weeks, politicians and pro-government media have been conducing a slander campaign against leading civil society organizations and independent media in Serbia.
Organizations targeted with high profile slander campaign include CRTA (Center for Research, Transparency and Accountability), which runs the oversight initiative Open Parliament...
After actress Štajndeld’s claims, Serbian journalist Hristina Stoiljković also accuses Lečić of sexual harassment
After actress Danijela Štajnfeld's claim announced that she was a victim of sexual harassment by her colleague actor, director, and former minister of culture of Serbia, Branislav Lečić, the journalist Hristina Stoiljković went forward with similar claim.
Stoiljković claims that she has met Lečić...
Actress Danijela Štajnfeld accuses Serbian politician and actor Branislav Lečić of rape
Serbian actress Danijela Štajnfeld testified at the High Public Prosecution in Belgrade that the actor, politician, former minister and member of the Democratic party Branislav Lećić had raped her.
As nova.rs published, the actress had previously revealed in the documentary film "Heal Me" that she...
The POINT Conference starts with a discussion about the elections in the Balkans during the pandemic
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the leading regional annual conference about political responsibility and new technologies - POINT is returning with a new, online format: POINT Talks. Today, the 5th of February 2021,, starting at 15h, the first of series of events will take...
Mirth reigns after Balkan Facebook Flat Earthers group takes a hit by trolling journalist
Bosnian journalist and blogger Mustafa Sejdinović caused a minor good will sensation in the post-Yugoslav part of the Balkans after he confessed to busting a Facebook group for Flat Earthers from the region.
Sejdinović, who goes by the nickname Musa, explained how he infiltrated the...
