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© Tobias Zuttmann

The “Tirana 2030” urban development project was intended to finally put an end to the chaotic conditions in the Albanian capital. Since then, spectacular construction projects have been completed – but much of the old Tirana has also disappeared. Is this a necessary transformation – or a calculated loss of memory? In a city caught between reinvention and historical amnesia.

• Authors: Astrid Benölken, Tobias Zuttmann
• Medium: JÁDU
• Original title: Im Schatten der Baukräne: Stadtentwicklung in Tirana
• Culture and Identity

© Tetiana Kostyk

Did you know that Czech trout suffer from withdrawal symptoms and swim in search of their next fix of crank, whilst London eels are being sabotaged by the bankers’ cocaine? We humans try to survive in the system with the help of neuromodulators, yet our chemical shadow has long since colonised nature too. Forget the idyllic wilderness – welcome to a world where animals unwittingly share our highs and our crashes. The drugged-up wilderness is closer than you think.

• Author: Kuba Vítek Girard
• Medium: JÁDU
• Original title: Sjetá divočina. Když zvířata omylem berou drogy
• Climate Crisis and Sustainability

© Multitude Films

The experiences and struggles of people with health-related disadvantages have been, and continue to be, systematically erased from our collective memory. In her reflection on a number of groundbreaking films, the author Petra Eller explores this erasure and the power that can bring these experiences back into the public consciousness.

• Author: Petra Eller
• Medium: JÁDU
• Original title: Crip dejiny: ich vymazávanie a filmy, ktoré ich uchovávajú
• Culture and Identity

© Goethe-Institut / Private Archive

Whilst professional football teams represent Ukraine abroad, back home in villages and small towns, football is often not just a sport, but also a form of mutual emotional support. Vasyl, a coach and veteran, explains how amateur football brings people together in small communities across the Odesa Oblast and provides them with a sense of belonging.

• Author: Yevhenii Nazarenko
• Medium: JÁDU
• Original title: Грати, аби жити: як ветеран відроджує футбол в українському селі
• Culture and Identity

© Sitara Celina Rajh

Photographer Sitara Rajh lives and works in Ukraine - sometimes right on the front line. She actually writes down all the words, sentences and fragments of thought published here in a little book that accompanies her on almost all her research trips. On JÁDU she offers a personal insight into her everyday life in a country at war.

• Author: Sitara Celina Rajh
• Medium: JÁDU
• „Wie gewöhnt man sich überhaupt an Krieg?“: Tagebuch einer Kriegsfotografin
• Safety and Security

© Collage: Kamil Czudej

This opinion piece argues that Europe is often wrongly perceived as weak and indecisive in the face of Russia’s war against Ukraine. The author contends that Europe has in fact undergone significant transformation and now possesses substantial political, economic, and military leverage. The key challenge is not a lack of capacity, but a lack of strategic decisiveness. The article explores tensions between European and American approaches to security, critiques narratives coming from Moscow, Washington, and Kyiv, and calls for Europe to more assertively define and execute its own strategy in the conflict.

• Author: Filip Rudnik
• Medium: Kultura Liberalna
• Original title: Europa ma karty w wojnie z Rosją. Czas zdecydować, jak je rozegrać
• Safety and Security