JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.Abstract In 2024, the EU adopted a much‐debated directive on improving working conditions in platform work, which aims to facilitate the correct classification of people performing platform work and regulates the use of algorithmic management. The initiative attracted intense lobbying from digital platforms and trade unions, whilst dividing the member ...
Sven Schreurs
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Effect of listening to Quran recitation on labor pain, childbirth comfort, and maternal blood pressure: a quasi-experimental study among nulliparous women. [PDF]
J Egypt Public Health AssocAl Kharusi WNO +3 more
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Scrutinising Frontex: The European Parliament and Accountability through Discharge
JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.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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To Be or Not to Be a Worker: Legal Uncertainty and Precarious Employment in the European Union
JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.Abstract Precarious employment has gradually moved onto the European Union (EU) policy agenda, so far culminating in the proclamation of the European Pillar of Social Rights (the Pillar). However, the effectiveness of these renewed social ambitions is challenged by legal uncertainty and entangled in ongoing political and legal disputes over the ...
Dorte Sindbjerg Martinsen +2 more
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Modulation of stress and neuroplasticity biomarkers via rhythmic vocalization: a controlled study on NDNF, cortisol, and monoamines. [PDF]
BMC NeurosciOkur S, Bayraktar B.
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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 ...
Sarah Ganty +3 more
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Making Sense of the Final Moments: A Qualitative Study of Informal Caregivers' Perception of Good Death in the Bereavement Process. [PDF]
Scand J Caring SciIşık M, Asan O.
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China and Limits to the European Union's Geoeconomic Turn
JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.Abstract The European Union's (EU) pivot from a commitment to efficiency to concern about security is commonly referred to as its ‘geoeconomic turn’. This paper analyses the EU's capacities to enhance its economic security and to engage in economic statecraft by focusing on China, which, at least until recently, posed the greatest geoeconomic challenge
Alasdair R. Young, Scott A. W. Brown
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The effect of the holy Quran recitation and listening on anxiety, stress, and depression: A scoping review on outcomes. [PDF]
Health Sci Rep, 2023 Moulaei K +3 more
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