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Cross-border Talks
Cross-Border Talks is an independent medium ran by journalists from Poland, Bulgaria and Czechia.
The zbor (zborovi in the plural) is a grassroots democratic council that is currently experiencing a renaissance as a model of political participation in countries that were formerly part of Yugoslavia. This resurgence is evident in the adoption of the zborovi by the student movement in Serbia, which has now spread to other areas of society. While authoritarian President Aleksandar Vučić warns that such councils will bring Bolshevism to the country, pro-government television talk shows are discussing whether the revived zborovi could lead Serbia into anarchy. In this interview, Stefan Gužvica and Gal Kirn explore the history and political potential of the zborovi.![]()
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The Politics of Zborovi: Councils, Direct Democracy, and the Specters of Revolution in the Balkans
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The zbor (zborovi in the plural) is a grassroots, democratic assembly model experiencing a renaissance in the Balkans. It nearly disappeared with the spread of neoliberal nationalism in former Yugosla...
On 6 June 2025, the Slovenian intellectual Miha Kosovel gave a lecture at the Ambar Hotel in Giurgiu on the cross-border city of Nova Gorica (Slovenia) – Gorizia (Italy), its status as the European Capital of Culture in 2025, and the insights that can be gained from the cross-border experience. The lecture was part of the Play Giurgiu festival, which will take place in Giurgiu and Ruse at the end of June 2025, showing films for young audiences.![]()
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Mihai Mitrică from Animest, the organiser of the Play Giurgiu festival, introduced the guest, after which Miha Kosovel gave his presentation. The experience of Nova Gorica and Gorizia is important for Ruse and Giurgiu, as they are twin cities divided by an EU border. During the discussion following his lecture, Miha Kosovel spoke about the cultural practices of the two towns of Nova Gorica-Gorizia as European Capitals of Culture and the transformational effects of having a cross-border identity.![]()
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A transcript of the Slovenian intellectual’s speech in Giurgiu on the cross-border experience of Nova Gorica (Slovenia) - Gorizia (Italy) - European capitals of culture in 2025 and an example of cul...
The 6th of June 2025 marked the 150th birthday of novelist and Nobel Prize winner Thomas Mann. In 1933, at the age of almost 60, Thomas Mann had spent his summer on exile in France’s Sanary-sur-Mer. ![]()
Escaping from Hitler-dominated Nazi Germany, he travelled on to Switzerland and later emigrating to the USA.![]()
Back in Germany, Hitler’s regime started to burn books and later, people. The books of Thomas Mann were among the books burned. ![]()
Without much doubt, were Thomas Mann to remain in Germany, he would have suffered a similar torturous mistreatment as his Nobel Prize winning colleague Carl von Ossientzky – death in a German concentration camp.![]()
Thomas Mann’s 150th birthday is also a moment at which to celebrate Thomas Mann as an anti-fascist. On this occasion, his famous radio lectures – called “German Listeners” – have been newly published. ![]()
Thomas Mann’s words signify a voice that speaks deep into the conscience of the Germans. During the early 1940s, Mann’s inspirational lectures were about Hitler’s Nazism. In 2025, Mann’s words seamlessly apply to the AfD’s Neo-Nazism.![]()
With the rise of the neo-fascist AfD, a voice like Thomas Mann is, once again, bitterly needed in Germany and beyond. Today, Germany remains a country in which a sizable part of the population seemingly have learned next to nothing from Nazism.![]()
Back then and in his own voice, he read his text out loud – that was important to him. At the time, Thomas Mann was in all likelihood one of the most famous living writers in the world.![]()
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