EU Administrative Conditionality and Domestic Downloading - The Limits of Europeanization in Challenging Contexts [PDF]
How and to what extent have European ideas transformed the political-administrative institutions in the candidate countries in the East? Which conditions work to mitigate and undermine the impact of the European Union (EU) in these contexts?
Arolda Elbasani
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Enlargement: A Process rather than a Point in Time. CEPS Policy Briefs No. 51, 1 April 2004 [PDF]
, 2004 The 1st of May 2004 is being marked by numerous important political events, speeches and festivities. This is appropriate in the sense that on that day ten new member states join the EU.
Crum, Ben, Gros, Daniel, Turmann, Anna.
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Structural insights into an engineered feruloyl esterase with improved MHET degrading properties
FEBS Letters, EarlyView.A feruloyl esterase was engineered to mimic key features of MHETase, enhancing the degradation of PET oligomers. Structural and computational analysis reveal how a point mutation stabilizes the active site and reshapes the binding cleft, expading substrate scope.
Panagiota Karampa +5 more
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EU partners or EU members: EU enlargement in Moldova, Ukraine and the Western Balkans
Australian and New Zealand Journal of European StudiesFollowing the 2004-2007 ‘Big Bang’ enlargement, the European Union turned away from further enlargement prospects. Projects such as the European Neighbourhood Policy were launched with the express goal of limiting enlargement and outstanding enlargement
James Blanchett
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The Crucial Themes of EU Enlargement [PDF]
Romanian Journal of European Affairs, 2001 This article provides a critical review of the “terms” of the ongoing EU enlargement, in the light of the European public interest. The European public interest ought to include the prospective (Central European) members, within a perspective of an ...
Jacques Pelkmans
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EU Enlargement, Identity and the Analysis of European Foreign Policy: Identity Formation through Policy Practice [PDF]
The eastern enlargement of the EU provides an excellent vantage point to examine the interplay of EU identity and European foreign policy. Yet most analysis of eastern enlargement either focus on enlargement as a case of EU foreign policy or on ...
Ulrich Sedelmeier
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Gut microbiome and aging—A dynamic interplay of microbes, metabolites, and the immune system
FEBS Letters, EarlyView.Age‐dependent shifts in microbial communities engender shifts in microbial metabolite profiles. These in turn drive shifts in barrier surface permeability of the gut and brain and induce immune activation. When paired with preexisting age‐related chronic inflammation this increases the risk of neuroinflammation and neurodegenerative diseases.
Aaron Mehl, Eran Blacher
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The Western Balkans and the EU: Genuine and Sincere?: The Story of Bilateral Disputes and Pretence
European Journal of Risk RegulationEnlargement is seemingly back on the list of EU priorities. It took a war for it to happen! Indeed, it has been over a decade since the last EU enlargement with Croatia.
Elena Basheska
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EU Enlargement and Latvian Citizenship Policy [PDF]
Journal on Ethnopolitics and Minority Issues in Europe, 2003 This article examines whether its desire to join the European Union exerted any influence upon Latvian nationality policy. The author concludes that external pressure upon Latvian policymakers during the accession process led to a significantly more ...
Helen M. Morris
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The macroeconomic consequences of migration diversion: evidence for Germany and the UK [PDF]
This paper examines the macroeconomic consequences of the diversion of migration flows away from Germany towards the UK in the course of the EUâs Eastern Enlargement.
Herbert Brücker, Timo Baas
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