Urbanization drives turnover in dragonfly species composition, traits, and habitat conservation value. Natural stream sections have a higher conservation value (higher DBI) due to presence of specialists. Properly managed urban streams can support diverse dragonfly assemblages.
Marina Vilenica +5 more
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Population genetic structure of the Mediterranean horseshoe bat Rhinolophus euryale in the central Balkans. [PDF]
Budinski I +6 more
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Beyond Formal Agreements: EU Agencies' Cooperation with Third Countries
ABSTRACT Third countries' participation in European Union (EU) agencies is attracting increasing attention as venues for differentiated European integration. Research has started to vest into the host of formal agreements regulating this cooperation. However, regulatory outreach by EU agencies may be more important than it is stated de jure, as many ...
Thibaud Deruelle +2 more
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External Actors, Pressures and Influences: European Integration and the Outside World
Abstract The European Union (EU) increasingly faces external pressures, ranging from Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine to an economically and politically assertive China to deep changes in the transatlantic relationship with the United States.
Christian Freudlsperger, Lucas Schramm
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Eneolithic Cultures of Central and West Balkans
The study of Eneolithic sites and cultures, and of the Eneolithic in general, does not have a long tradition in former Yugoslavia. If we take as its starting point the systematic excavations of Ig (Ljubljansko Barje) carried out by K. Deschman in 18751 we are left with a period of some 120 years.
openaire +1 more source
The Agencies of the European Union: A Glimmer of Hope for Enlargement?
Abstract In recent years, the process of EU enlargement has become increasingly difficult. The longer the process drags on and the less likely accession appears, the more the candidate states are discouraged and the less influential the EU becomes. A different approach to integration must therefore be used.
Matis Poussardin
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Scrutinising Frontex: The European Parliament and Accountability through Discharge
Abstract This article examines how the European Parliament (EP) has leveraged the budgetary discharge procedure to enhance the political accountability of the EU's Border and Coast Guard Agency, Frontex. Whilst the procedure is formally limited to budget implementation, the EP has used it as an accountability tool that goes far beyond financial ...
Magnus G. Schoeller, Peter Slominski
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The Meritorious ‘Other’: The Interconnection of Merit and Race in EU Migration and Asylum Law
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 ...
Sarah Ganty +3 more
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Absent Europe: Civic Protest and the Erosion of EU Symbolism in Serbia
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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Molecular and Phytochemical Variability of Common Juniper (<i>Juniperus communis</i> L.) in the Central Balkans Reveals Differentiation of Populations. [PDF]
Rajčević N +4 more
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