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Is the EU turning a blind eye to the 'new strongmen' of the Balkans? CEPS Commentary, 11 July 2016
, 2016 "We are working on a daily basis with each and every one, to make steps towards the European integration of the Western Balkans." High Representative/Vice President Federica Mogherini Western Balkans Summit, Paris, 4 July ...
Fouéré, Erwan
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The Meritorious ‘Other’: The Interconnection of Merit and Race in EU Migration and Asylum Law
JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.Abstract Adopting a law‐in‐context approach, this article suggests that merit‐based migrant selection in the European Union (EU) is implicitly shaped by racial dynamics. With a focus on EU law and more specifically on cases from the Netherlands and Germany, it argues that the growing emphasis on merit enables a limited number of ‘racialised others’ to ...
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The image of the Balkans as portrayed in Balkan cinema.
, 2013 Literature, media, cinema can have a great impact on our (self-) perceptions. The production of images is not an accidental enterprise. Images have certain meaning and purpose. They have the ability to influence policy-making, justify social and economical order, etc.
Illieva Denislava, Illieva Illieva
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Politikon: The IAPSS Journal of Political Science, 2004 For more than a decade the Balkans were a bloody arena of monstrosities, the memory of which has still not subsided. Many heated discussions have been devoted to understanding the underlying logic and causes of the Balkan conflicts. Those futile “attempts,” however, have given rise to “balkanization”— a discourse that capitalized on the “Balkan essence”
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PROBLEMS AND COSTS OF THE EUROPEAN UNION EXPANSION WITH OVER 27 STATES [PDF]
Once on his way to enlargement, the European Union has taken a road of no return. History has shown that all candidate countries have become a point of EU Member States.
Marina Zaharioaie, Ana-Maria Pascu
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The Balkans between Byzantium and Bulgaria
Any discussion of the place of the Balkan Peninsula in the political and cultural traditions of the Byzantine Empire must begin by revisiting the terms that denoted this space in Byzantine sources.
Pavlović, Bojana
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Absent Europe: Civic Protest and the Erosion of EU Symbolism in Serbia
JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.Abstract This article analyses the strategic management of European Union (EU) references in Serbia's 2024–2025 student mobilisation. Drawing on original fieldwork and 18 semi‐structured interviews, the article integrates framing theory with the Discourse‐Historical Approach to reconstruct how EU‐related meanings were produced and operationalised.
Anna Seliverstova
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Sociology Lens, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines how media usage trends of Roma people intersect with urban peripherality and structural inequalities. The study designed as a two‐stage comparative ethnographic field study and conducted in 2016 and 2025 on a Roma community living in Izmir Province of Türkiye, focuses on the ongoing deprivations of the Roma population in ...
Mehmet Işık, Şakir Eşitti
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Geopolitics vs. Globalization in the Balkans: The New Rivalries in the Energy and Transport Sectors [PDF]
The research focuses on how present Balkan political elites declare that they would adhere to the values of integrating and globalizing Europe in their Balkan policy, while de facto employing the ‘arsenal’ of geopolitical egoistic planning.
Klimov, Blagoy
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Unhappy Regions and Cities? Urban Agglomeration and Individual Happiness in Spain
Journal of Regional Science, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper examines how individual subjective well‐being varies across space in Spain, with a particular focus on the roles of city size and long‐term population growth. Using individual‐level data from multiple waves of the Spanish Centre for Sociological Research surveys between 2013 and 2025, adjusted measures of area‐level happiness are ...
Rafael González‐Val
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