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A FIFTH DIES AND THE GOVERNMENT INVESTS 20 TIMES LESS
North Macedonia is still at the top of the list of the most polluted countries in Europe and the world. Of the total of...
ELIZABETA HASANI: THE FIVE-YEAR-OLD WHO WAS KILLED TWICE IN KOSOVO
The photograph taken by photographer Tyler Hicks in March 1999 shows the murdered five-year-old Roma Elizabeta Hasani
March 1999 was the month. More specifically, during...
SOCCER FANS AS TOOLS AND VICTIMS
Someone once said that the war in former Yugoslavia started in football stadiums where chauvinism and hatred towards others were promoted. Citizens are intentionally...
THE CORRUPT CANNOT FIGHT CORRUPTION
An independent judiciary is one of the 14 key priorities for Bosnia and Herzegovina's accession to the European Union. Less independence means less trust....
THREE YOUNG WOMEN BREAK STEREOTYPES
In the world of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) young women are breaking out of traditional frameworks and successfully building their professional careers....
WHAT DOES THE CENSUS MEAN FOR YOUTH?
Young people in Montenegro are confronted with invisible challenges and changes. The census becomes crucial in revealing their migration trends and living conditions. They...
Themes
READ TO NEVER BE AT A LOSS FOR WORDS
With the advancement of smartphones, which are more and more common in the hands of all generations of society, books are slowly being forgotten,...
ALEKSANDRE, BELGRADE IS NOT AFRAID OF YOU
When can we truly say that a city is big? Does this bigness reflect in the number of people living in it, perhaps its...
“FREEDOM OF MOVEMENT IS AN ELEMENTARY RIGHT, NOT A NEW YEAR’S...
EU and Kosovo flags close to one another/ Illustration purposes/
On December 31st, Kosovo celebrated not only the arrival of the year 2024 but...
HISTORIOGRAPHY IN THE WESTERN BALKANS: HIGH ON MYTHS, LOW ON FACTS
The cover of the book of the same title, written by Barbara Jelavich used for illustration purposes only
How is history written in Kosovo? What...
NO MORE PROMISES, WE’VE HIT ROCK BOTTOM
2024 is an election year for North Macedonia. Macedonian citizens will vote in the spring for the 11th time in the parliamentary and the...
SILENCE ABOUT CRIME ENCOURAGES CRIME
Thirty years ago, in February 1993, a crime was committed in Strpci, Montenegro. The Army of Republika Srpska kidnapped 20 civilians from the train...
North Macedonia
CRIME IN SERBIA AND ITS DOMINO EFFECT IN THE REGION
The two mass shootings in Serbia, in particular the one at a school where a student named Kosta killed nine of his peers and...
WHEN THE NUMBERS GET ETHNIC COLORS
Two decades after the last census in 2002, North Macedonia finally conducted a census. Although the census is a statistical operation necessary for the...
Serbia
CAN TERRORISM HAPPEN IN SERBIA?
Since the beginning of the millennium, the world has witnessed 67 terrorist attacks on civilians. In the last 15 years, there have been 55...
THE PHENOMENON OF „BRESKVICA“ – WHERE IS THE BEGINNING AND WHERE...
One of the verses by the young singer Anđela Ignjatović, also known as Breskvica, in her newly released song "Gnezdo orlovo" (Eagle's Nest), goes...
Monte Negro
PATRIOTISM IS NOT IN FLAGS BUT IN BAGS!
In 1991, Montenegro adopted the Declaration on the Ecological State, wrote it in the Constitution and became the first ecological state in the world....
WE DO NOT WANT FLAGS BUT JOBS!
Montenegro continues to go from crisis to crisis. Flags are flying again, the story of the alleged ethnic and religious saints are being talked...
BiH
UNHCR, VASA PRAVA BIH LAUNCH HOTLINE FOR MIGRANT ASYLUM SEEKERS
UNHCR, the UN refugee agency, in cooperation with its partner, the Vasa prava BiH Association, has launched a free counselling line to facilitate access...
THEY KEEP ARGUING, THE STANDARD KEEPS FALLING
Bosnia and Herzegovina is undergoing yet another round of post-election drama and friction. Everyday nationalism and tensions are constantly on the rise, and the...
Out of Borders
“PERSPECTIVE” GUESTS ABOUT SOCIETY – part III
The pandemic affected many lives this past year. Thus, "PERSPECTIVE", like many others, could not travel where they wanted. That is why the prime...
SILENCE SUPPORTS CRIME
Last week, Montenegrin youth took on the squares to protest violence against an eight-year-old girl. Violence has been visible for a long time. In...
MODERATORS
“Great crew is working on the Perspective project. I think they chose well when it comes to topics and questions, topics that are either muted, or false answers are offered. Perspective is showing the true state of mind of young people in the region. The young are frightened. They are enraged because they want to be different, but their environment is condemns different.”
Edo Maajka
