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The Slovak development assistance to the Western Balkans has a tradition that emerged in the 90s of the previous century and its efficiency, mainly when in comes to Serbia, was at that time deepened also by the example of a quite successful struggle of the Slovak democratic forces for the face of the society and its integration into the EU and NATO. Slovakia's relation to the Balkans has become one of the basic pillars of the strategy of the Slovak foreign policy and in fact all Slovak governments since the country's independence in 1993 have followed this line. An important element of this policy was the emergence of the Bratislava process in 1999 as a platform of unification of the Serbian opposition and struggle for Serbia's democratization. A great and a very efficient component of this policy is the Bratislava-Belgrade Fund that has funded 65 assistance projects. In the next period an opportunity has arisen to merge the forces of assistance to the Western Balkans in its stabilization and integration into Euro-Atlantic structures. It would be suitable to involve mainly the efforts of Slovakia and Hungary, who directly neighbor the Western Balkan states, and whose orientation belongs to the strategic priorities of Hungarian foreign policy as well. Different approaches of these two countries to certain issues, such as the recognition of Kosovo's independence, should not become an obstacle to their cooperation in the region. Adapted from the source document.

Clearly a 'founding member' among German Studies scholars, Eva Kolinsky pursued an extraordinary array of topics, most of which drew on interdisciplinary research methods. This essay attempts to situate a limited number of her contributions in this ever evolving scholarly domain, emphasising the 'past', 'present' and 'future' dimensions of that work. It offers a brief introduction to subsequent essays comprising this commemorative volume, indicating the ways in which Kolinsky influenced and affirmed not only the writings of her contemporaries but also the work of 'successor' generations on both sides of the Atlantic. Adapted from the source document.

AbstractThis article examines the growing interest in questions of memory, trauma, and justice in Turkey, with a special focus on the notion of "coming to terms with the past." Through an analysis of key academic and popular texts published between 2002 and 2013, it argues that "coming to terms with the past" is a therapeutic public discourse that rewrites national history through the temporality of trauma. In other words, this discourse reconfigures the sequence of past, present, and future as the beginning, development, and end of a case of collective trauma, applying the psychotherapeutic terminology of victimhood, healing, and forgiveness to social realities. The article offers new perspective on existing debates over "coming to terms with the past" by analyzing the limits of this therapeutic discourse and by exploring the potential and open-endedness of the politics of memory in Turkey.