Book by Chinese author Yang Bo presented in Banja Luka, exploring the life of China’s president, the transformation of the Chinese economy, and China’s international development initiatives. On 14 October, the book The Brilliant Path – For the People and Moving Forward, by Chinese author Yang Bo, was presented in Banja Luka. Through one hundred short stories, the book portrays…
Raia Diplomática
Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen, dear friends: It is an honour to receive this award from Raia Diplomática. I sincerely thank you for this recognition, which means a great deal to me and to the entire team at the Embassy of Azerbaijan in Spain. I would like to express my special thanks to H.E. Senator, Vicente Azpitarte, from whom I have…
Serbia’s Ambassador to Portugal discusses cooperation, geopolitics, Lusophone ties, Expo 2027, and the human side of diplomacy. Serbia and Portugal may sit at opposite ends of the European continent, but as Ambassador Ana Ilić explains in this interview, they are bound by a long friendship and a shared openness to deeper cooperation. As the two countries approach 145 years of…
Distinguished senators Manuel Baltar and Vicente Azpitarte Pérez; Monsignor Fernando García Cardiñanos, Bishop of Mondoñedo-Ferrol; Ms. Gina Riano, Secretary General of the Ibero-American Social Security Organization; ambassadors and members of the diplomatic corps; President of the Casa de Cantabria in Madrid; representative of the Madrid Surgical Association; Director of the Banja Luka Tourism Organization (Bosnia and Herzegovina); dear friends and…
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…
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.…