This is no longer just a story of young people leaving and aging societies with significant internal migrations reshaping the spatial structure of the countries. It is the story of a region that has leveraged the EU integration context to ascend economically, but is demographically on the brink of erosion. Because where there is a vacuum, capital, influence, infrastructure—and often geopolitics—flow in.

Colonna’s death has become the symbol of a grievance that sees the Corsican people fighting for their autonomy, their cultural emancipation, and their desire to find a way towards development and out of poverty and exclusion.

The stray animals' issue is a hot topic in Türkiye lately. Cats and dogs, which have been residents of the streets since Ottoman period,...