– Shaci

Kosovo – the youngest country in Europe – is still associated with flight, destruction and poverty 20 years after the war. Fewer think of pool parties, pop concerts, luxury weddings and fast cars. And certainly not of people throwing money around in clubs. When the diaspora from Switzerland, Germany and Austria comes home in August, the little Balkan country comes to life again. People celebrate, drink and get married. And year after year, those who are left behind realise that their country could not survive without the Schatzis abroad. / Text by Franziska Tschinderle. Read the whole story HERE