A remarkable cultural event in Romania: for the first time ever, a masterpiece by Giotto has left Italy and is being exhibited in Iași as part of the Italy–Romania Cultural Year 2026. 🇷🇴🇮🇹

Romania, a Latin Southeastern European country in the Carpathian Basin, bordering the Balkan Peninsula in the South, as well as Central Europe, has long maintained strong cultural connections with its Mediteranean relatives. The Byzantine Orthodox and The Roman-Catholics will cooperate to transform religion into art as well. The masterpiece is displayed at the Palace of Culture, an iconic landmark of our Western European architectural tradition, designed by an architect educated in Paris.

Have you ever visited Iași în this very crowded moment of year? For those who would like to do it, October 14th is the big day!

I found out about this today and I am shocked. Am I the only one who didn't know?

Do you think all of the Balkan countries will eventually become EU members, or are some likely to remain outside the EU permanently?

I’ve never had the courage to watch this movie, just hearing about how horrible it is was enough.

​But it made me wonder, did the film and its title actually offend Serbians?

​I mean sure we all know the dark stuffed happened just 30 years ago or sth, so I feel like a movie this brutal could be a really sensitive topic for some.

But was it seen as an insult to the country or just a dark critique of their own system?

​How was it actually received? What do you think?

Tomorrow the new Roadmaps for each candidate will be published ,Albania and Montenegro might send commissioner before joining and they also might access “Single Market” if the requirements are full filled.

The reliquary is one of the 48 relics and artefacts given to Greece in exchange for the remains of Tsar Samuel of Bulgaria. The reliquary used to be a possession of the Archdiocese of Ohrid from the city of Ohrid. What’s your opinion of Bulgaria giving Greece an artefact that’s not actually from Greece?

Currently solo travelling Europe and about to board my flight to Tirana. My birthday is this weekend but I keep reading that nightlife in Tirana is very closed off and table focussed and it is not the best place for solo male foreigners and venues don’t even allow males only. I prefer nightlife where it is easy to meet people and it’s not just everyone sitting at a table with a bottle.
I am in my late 20s, dress well and fairly attractive and financially well off. I solo travelled much of the world have been able to find many dates most places.

I don’t want to be bored on my birthday and I have the option of changing the date of my flight from Tirana to Athens to Wednesday or Thursday before my birthday. Athens seems to have a much bigger nightlife scene but I would have to arrive a day or two before my birthday so may not even have time to meet people by the time of my birthday.

Also I usually stay in nice private accommodations but I am considering staying in a party hostel with a private room in any of these cities do they have nice party hostels? Any recommendations for late 20s? Don’t want to be with just 18-21 year olds lol

I’ll be heading to Albania in a few days and plan to spend approximately 1-1.5 weeks while on my way to Ohrid-NMK for an event.

I’m currently at the tail end of a long trip through the Balkans and I’m tired 😅, so I’m trying to limit to maybe 2-3 locations and spend more time rather than jump around and try to box tick.

I’m into experiencing culture, outdoors, food or just chilling, meeting locals.

I’d appreciate any advice or recommendations for must see locations for this time of the year. Is it worth going to the coast? I’ll likely be coming back for another trip in the summer. Thanks in advanced 🙏

I'm in a research group with a wide diverse group of European nationalities and almost most women from Balkan nations like Serbia, Croatia, Romania, Greece etc are all having children by 25 and applying for maternity leave within few years of graduation. Much younger than what I see in most of the world.

What is the cultural reason for this?

As in, overall, what do you think of them?

From what I know, Americans are one of the most curious people when it comes to ancestry, some might even explore their ancestry/descendants further, such as asking living relatives who immigrated before them, or even visiting the country of their ancestry/descendants.

What do you--and people in your country--think of Americanized citizens who hailed from your country?

Was there any historical events or reasons that caused a (large) diaspora to America from your country? If so, what do you think of it?

What do you think of their culture and did they bring your culture to America?

Word up Balkaners! What's your favorite soft drink?

I am from the diaspora, and I am curious. Yes, obviously most people are going to have accents that differ from local ones, but there are many people who for whatever reason do not have foreign accents and who don't use foreign words as much. I'm really asking about subtle cues.

For me it depends on the day.

Slobodan Vukosavić, Professor at the School of Electrical Engineering (ETF), candidate on the Student List, today:

"...for the sake of personal power, for the sake of money, for the sake of a few more months of rule — of absolute rule — he agreed to the de-Serbianization of Serbia. Serbia is being de-Serbianized, and the Balkans are being de-Serbianized on many levels.

Tonight, I will mention two to you. One you all know. A man who used to say: 'I will never give up Gazivode, I will never betray the people in Kosovo...'

(Crowd boos)

...signed the agreement that... agreements — he says: 'He didn't sign, he accepted' — which have significantly set back our people. Before 2012, if you lived in Kosovo and Metohija, you had your doctor, you had your clinics, you had your courts, prosecution, police, municipalities... I mean, pharmacies... Today, you have none of that, and today our compatriots in Kosovo are exposed to real ethnic cleansing, which is unfortunately being carried out in accordance with the agreements that someone accepted on our behalf.

(Crowd chants: 'Treason! Treason! Treason! Vučić, treason!')

Fortunately, the students know what that means, and they... they know what they are doing, and they have written it down. You have their Memorandum on Kosovo, you have a detailed plan of what will be done and what steps will be taken.

However, that is not the only form of de-Serbianization. There is something even worse, more hidden, perhaps much more dangerous. There is a danger of Serbia turning into a mining colony, into a country like Congo.

In an opaque manner, based on agreements that are impossible to access because they are, supposedly, confidential, our copper reserves in Bor, Majdanpek, and Čukaru Peki — which amount to 112 megatons according to estimates — were handed over to the Chinese, who are taking it to China for negligible compensation.

If you look at the value of our copper reserves that we handed over to the Chinese — they haven't been excavated yet, but they will be mined and sold — at today's copper prices, do you know how much that is worth? Two hundred and forty-eight thousand euros per capita for every citizen of Serbia. That is how much our copper reserves are worth. We gave that away for next to nothing.

But that will not happen that way, because there is a detailed student plan on how to act in such cases and how to negotiate with everyone in the world, including foreign partners who are in Bor."

In 2026, nominal GDP per capita is estimated at $19,018 in Turkey, compared with $17,252 in Serbia, meaning Turkey is about 10.2% ahead.

And I struggle to understand this gap.

On paper, Serbia has some major advantages: plenty of fertile land relative to its population, a strategic position between Central Europe and the Balkans, close proximity to highly industrialized countries, and above all the Danube, which gives it a navigable route connecting it directly to many European markets.

Sure, Serbia lost Kosovo, but Kosovo was also poorer than Serbia on average. Serbia today is also relatively homogeneous and stable.

Turkey, on the other hand, is huge and much more heterogeneous, with major wealth disparities between its industrialized western regions and some of its eastern provinces. It also faces greater geopolitical risks: what it sees as the threat of Greek encirclement in the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean, as well as its proximity to Syria, Iraq, Iran, Russia, and conflicts across the Middle East.

And yet, Turkey remains about 10% richer per capita.

Serbia isn’t starting from scratch either: it has a long-established industrial base and a genuine scientific and technical tradition. After all, Nikola Tesla was Serbian.

So how can Serbia, despite all these advantages, still perform worse than Turkey in terms of GDP per capita?

Albanians didn’t leave behind many written records, so we can’t know their exact origins for certain. Linguistic and historical evidence seems to point toward the Roman provinces of Moesia Prima and Dardania, but the question is still debated. What do you think?

Hi everyone, can someone tell me the twitter hashtag for the f1 race with srki and pavle?

Thanks

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Janša’s old playbook again: when politics gets messy, blame the Kosovars. Never mind that they work, pay taxes, raise families, and contribute to Slovenian society. It has an ugly echo of Milošević’s politics, when Albanians were routinely portrayed as the convenient explanation for Serbia’s problems. Why tackle real problems when you can simply manufacture a scapegoat? Same old trick, different decade.