Rule of Law through judicial Reform: A Key to the EU Accession of the Western Balkans
Contemporary Southeastern Europe, 2014 This paper focuses on the importance of judiciary reform as a key segment of rule of law enforcement for the EU accession of Western Balkan countries as a process mainly driven by EU assistance.
Ardit Memeti
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The Democratization Process in the Western Balkans in the Last 20 Years: Interethnic Relations and Security Implications [PDF]
Romanian Journal of European Affairs, 2014 The process of democratization in Western Balkans is connected with the process of state-building before and after the reconstruction. After the break-up of Yugoslavia, the region became a brutal battleground as different nation-based groups fought to ...
Katerina Veljanoska +2 more
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Cigarette Smoking among Medical Students from the Western Balkan. [PDF]
Int J Environ Res Public Health, 2022 Ilić M +4 more
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Beyond Formal Agreements: EU Agencies' Cooperation with Third Countries
JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.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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Exploring New Sources of Bioactive Phenolic Compounds from Western Balkan Mountains. [PDF]
Plants (Basel), 2022 Karalija E +5 more
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External Actors, Pressures and Influences: European Integration and the Outside World
JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.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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DNA barcoding for species delimitation of the freshwater leech genus Glossiphonia from the Western Balkan (Hirudinea, Glossiphoniidae). [PDF]
Biodivers Data J, 2021 Jovanović M +4 more
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The Agencies of the European Union: A Glimmer of Hope for Enlargement?
JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.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
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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Politics in Central EuropeAlthough women began to exercise their right to vote many years ago, women’s representation in the national parliaments remains an issue to be addressed by many countries.
Hamiti Urtak, Shala Sabiha
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