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The Danube Has Fallen to a Historic Low: In Eastern Croatia, Gardens Are Being Watered With a Bucket

Minus 140 centimetres at Batina, the Karašica stream completely dried up, and the Drava three metres lower. When even the...

09 August 2026 Read more →

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The River Is Too Warm, So the Nuclear Plant Powers Down: Krsko Is Running at 80 Percent, and the Region Imports More

The reactor is fine - the river is not. Last century's infrastructure has met a climate that no longer exists,...

08 August 2026 Read more →

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Dubravka Šuica Got Europe's Hardest File: a Balkan Politician Has to Calm Ceuta Down

The Mediterranean commissioner from Dubrovnik holds exactly the portfolio the Ceuta crisis falls under. A Balkan biography, a European post,...

01 August 2026 Read more →

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Meteotsunamis Are Shaking the Adriatic This Summer: The Sea We All Share Is Sending a Signal

The harbour empties in ten minutes, then the water rushes back. A phenomenon that usually happens once a year has...

23 July 2026 Read more →

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471 Empty Apartments in the Heart of Dubrovnik in Mid-July: 5-Euro Ice Cream Chases Tourists to Another Shore

Peak of the season, and Dubrovnik sits empty. When a holiday on the Adriatic costs as much as the exotic,...

13 July 2026 Read more →

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Summer, and Ice Is Falling From the Sky: Hail the Size of Walnuts Hits Slovenia, Red Alert Issued

Drivers took shelter under overpasses and in tunnels. Slovenia is our neighbor, and what happens there today often reaches us...

12 July 2026 Read more →

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Hungary After Orban Votes to Remove Its President: Is the Cleanup the End of Autocracy, or Just Its New Color?

The new government that came in promising a clean sweep - the first thing it does is amend the constitution...

12 July 2026 Read more →

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Irish Diabetic Arrested in Croatia, Family Says They Hid His Insulin: What If It Were You There?

A 22-year-old tourist in detention without the medicine that keeps him alive, clashing accounts from the authorities and the family....

09 July 2026 Read more →

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A Poll That Turned Croatian Politics Upside Down: With His Own List, Milanović Would Win 26 Seats and Decide the Fate of the HDZ

Plenković openly backed those who want to topple the government in Serbia - and now catastrophe is knocking on his...

08 July 2026 Read more →

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A Priest Died During the Liturgy From a Wasp Sting - How Thin the Line We All Share Is

Robert Emershich from Slovenia died at the altar from an allergic reaction to a wasp. An ordinary summer scene that...

24 June 2026 Read more →

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Eight Dead on a Hungarian Motorway: A Minibus With Moldovan Plates and One Familiar Balkan Story

A pile-up near Győr, all the victims foreigners on a road far from home. How many of our own people...

12 June 2026 Read more →

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Hungary Invites Croatia Into the Visegrad Group - Flattering, but With a Hidden Catch

Magyar proposes expanding from four to eight members. But in the Brussels-Washington rivalry, small states forever walk the wire: close...

04 June 2026 Read more →