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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Impact of extreme weather on White Stork (<i>Ciconia ciconia</i>) rehabilitation: admissions and outcomes (2010-2025). [PDF]
Petrov R, Pastir E, Gradev G.
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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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Commensal nesting of White Storks (<i>Ciconia ciconia</i>), Spanish Sparrows (<i>Passer hispaniolensis</i>) and house sparrows (<i>Passer domesticus</i>). [PDF]
Petrov R, Dimitrova T, Mironova K.
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Abstract Fish species are being described at an accelerating rate, but a substantial fraction of recent descriptions rests on evidentiary standards too weak to distinguish genuine species‐level discontinuities from intraspecific variation, local adaptation and the artefacts of single‐marker analyses, a pattern of taxonomic inflation with documented ...
Ilhan Altinok
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When Activism Becomes Survival: The Mental Health Costs of Constant Resistance in the Digital Era in the Balkans-A Health Policy Perspective. [PDF]
Sič A, Mijuskovic S, Brezic N.
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Trophic niche overlap between native and non‐native fishes in central Anatolian lakes, Türkiye
Abstract The Central Anatolian region of Türkiye exhibits exceptionally high freshwater fish diversity and endemism and is increasingly exposed to the introduction of non‐native taxa. We examined the diet composition, prey selectivity and interspecific dietary overlap among eight native and five non‐native fish species across seven lakes in Central ...
Arely Ramírez‐García +17 more
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The spread of <i>Echinococcus multilocularis</i> in the Balkans is facilitated by the golden jackal. [PDF]
Uzelac A +10 more
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In this article, we show that ground burrows influenced reptile populations inconsistently across both the 5‐year field study in the Kiskunság and the broader systematic review, which together revealed positive, negative, and neutral effects across species and habitat types.
B. Bancsik +9 more
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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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