In the spotlight: Demographic collapse in the Balkans
View of Zagreb, capital of Croatia.
In 10 years, the country has lost 10% of its population.
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Text by: Laurent Geslin Follow |
Balkan Mail Track
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A press review presented in partnership with
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The results of the censuses organized during the year 2021 in the Balkans are beginning to be revealed, and the announced demographic catastrophe has arrived, due to a low birth rate and high emigration.
In ten years, Croatia has lost almost 10% of its population,
falling below the bar of four million inhabitants
.
A statistic similar
to that of Bulgaria
, where 11% of the population fainted in a decade.
The country has only 6.52 million inhabitants compared to 8.9 million in 1985. And
half of Moldova's students
have disappeared in fifteen years...
Montenegro: towards a minority government?
The great game of upheaval announced in Montenegro has begun.
A motion of no confidence
was tabled against the current cabinet
, paving the way for the formation of a minority government, without the Democratic Front (DF) or President Milo Đukanović's deputies.
An instability
which testifies to the difficult "
normalization" of the local political scene
, after thirty years of reign of the Democratic Party of Socialists (DPS) of the Head of State.
Djoković affair: in Serbia, the Passion according to “Saint-Nole”
The Djoković saga soon turned into a state affair.
In Belgrade and Banja Luka, Republika Srpska, Serbian leaders were quick to denounce the expulsion of the Australian tennis champion and
make him a martyr
.
Bogus diplomas and politics in the Balkans: to the delight of plagiarists
To boost your political career in the Balkans, nothing better than claiming a master's degree, or even better, a doctorate.
And you don't need to study for that, just find a willing university to deliver it to you by addressing the many poorly controlled private establishments that are springing up like mushrooms...
Regional overview
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Serbia: religious communities want more confessional education in schools
Orthodox, Catholics, Muslims, Jews and Protestants are for once in agreement.
All “traditional” religious communities
in Serbia want to take even more control over religious education in schools.
In Croatia, the renewal of the episcopate should accelerate in 2022, with the retirement of certain very nationalist figures.
The Vatican regains control of a Church
eaten away by the demon of conservatism and often tempted by open opposition to Pope Francis.
Bosnia and Herzegovina: a new generation of artists in combat
Art is not dead in Bosnia and Herzegovina and a whole new generation of artists is emerging, despite the material difficulties and the lack of recognition.
A generation ready to go into battle to make their works exist.
Report
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Tirana: 20 new street names for 20 women killed in 2021
Twenty streets in Tirana now bear new names, those of twenty women killed in 2021. The activists of the Feminist Collective of Albania intend to challenge the authorities
on the feminicides which are multiplying in the country
.
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