Eighteen months after our first interview , Europinion sat down once more with Daniel Jackson, the President of the self-declared Free Republic of Verdis, to reflect on how this ambitious micronational project has evolved. Jackson speaks candidly about Verdis’s shifting geopolitical environment, the pressures of sustaining a self-declared state, and the challenges posed by its location on the contested margins between Croatia and Serbia. A central focus of the conversation is

Daniel Jackson is the 19-year-old President of the Free Republic of Verdis, a micronation on the banks of the Danube between Croatia and...