Nestled on the banks of the Vrbas River, Banja Luka has long been known as the administrative and cultural heart of Republika Srpska. Yet, for many international travellers, it remains a city viewed through a window—a brief stop on the road between Zagreb and Sarajevo, or a convenient base for exploring the wider region. But according to Mladen Šukalo, Head…
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Daniel Romera, the Spanish striker who plays for FC Borac from Banja Luka, scored his team’s first goal of the new season and led FC Borac to a 3:1 victory against Velež from Mostar in the Premier League of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Romera scored the opening goal in FC Borac’s first match of the 2026/27 season, giving the club a…
A reflection on how literature can help us interpret life and, at the same time, contrive to make us arrive too late for it. Eire maintains that it was a magnificent summer afternoon, sunny and breezy. Ourense was stirring from the torpor of the afternoon heat, but Eire did not care for siestas, or at least he never seemed to…
The international exhibition, presented by the Heydar Aliyev Foundation, opens on 8 September 2026 in the Spanish capital, bringing together artists from Azerbaijan, Spain, Italy, Latvia, Ukraine, Georgia, the United Kingdom, Germany, and beyond. Following acclaimed presentations in Baku, Manama, Rome, London, Tbilisi, Berlin, Tirana, Geneva, and Riga, the MAMA ‘Mother Nature’ international art project lands in Madrid to open…
Iceland has said “NO.” Not to the European Union as an idea, nor to Europe as the space to which it belongs, but to continuing accession negotiations with the European Union. In the referendum, 52.8 percent of voters opposed continuing the accession talks, while 47.2 percent supported their continuation. The margin is not huge, but the political message is clear:…
Among old papers: a forgotten interview by Borges with his mentor, and a ghostly place that exists only on the border between literature and history. When I mentioned Gog at our Friday gathering, with the air of a man unveiling buried treasure, it turned out that everyone else had read it already. “One reads Papini at eighteen,” they told me.…
Saša Čekrlija is a full professor in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro, and a guest professor in the People’s Republic of China, where he has spent considerable time observing how long-term planning and infrastructure connectivity reshape economic geography. He holds a PhD in human sustainable development, and his research bridges tourism, environmental management, rural development and agrotourism with the harder…
After captivating audiences across Asia and becoming one of the biggest animation successes ever produced in Southeast Asia, the Indonesian animated feature Jumbo will make its theatrical debut in Spain on 24 July 2026. Distributed by Premium Cine, Jumbo will open in approximately 50 cinemas throughout Spain for an initial theatrical run of 10 to 15 days. The film will…
Baudelaire says, in one of the prose poems he published under the title Paris Spleen, that the Chinese can tell the exact time of day simply by looking steadily into a cat’s eyes. From these few lines two questions arise, and it is perhaps best to answer them at once. The first is obvious: what, after all, is spleen? Since…
Incoterms, international arbitration and payment instruments: the discreet architecture that sustains trust between companies from different countries. There are institutions that seem to live far from the general public. They rarely appear in the headlines, they do not make front pages, and they do not arouse immediate political passions. Yet their influence is immense. They stand behind contracts, banks, ships,…