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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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RE-ASSESSING EU’S WESTERN BALKAN ENLARGEMENT: ETHNO-POLITICAL CHALLENGES AND THE RUSSIAN REVISIONISM [PDF]

EURINT, 2019
The European Union is in the process of re-assessing the various challenges engulfing it. Enlargement - a flagship policy of the EU, is now materialising as a challenge, critically testing its competence.
Asha WAGWARE, Priya Vijaykumar POOJARY
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Exploring New Sources of Bioactive Phenolic Compounds from Western Balkan Mountains. [PDF]

Plants (Basel), 2022
Karalija E, Dahija S, Demir A, Bešta-Gajević R, Zeljković SĆ, Tarkowski P.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Budding speciation, mitochondrial capture and introgression between surface and cave lineages in the Asellus aquaticus species complex

Cladistics, EarlyView.
Abstract Replicated pairs of ancestral and evolutionarily derived populations provide opportunities to test hypotheses about the deterministic laws of evolution. The Asellus aquaticus species complex is an invertebrate model system with several independent surface‐to‐cave transitions and a complicated and unresolved evolutionary history.
Peter Trontelj, Valerija Zakšek, Anja Palandačić, Hans Recknagel   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

DNA barcoding for species delimitation of the freshwater leech genus Glossiphonia from the Western Balkan (Hirudinea, Glossiphoniidae). [PDF]

Biodivers Data J, 2021
Jovanović M, Haring E, Sattmann H, Grosser C, Pesic V.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Identifying hotspots of faunal data deficiency to direct urgent research and monitoring

Conservation Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract Data deficiency is a substantial challenge for extinction risk assessments because incomplete data means we cannot accurately identify priority protected areas for conservation. Here, we use the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) distributions of amphibians, sharks and rays, fish, mammals, birds, and reptiles to identify ...
Matt W. Hayward, Danielle Verdon‐Kidd, K. Colyvas, Ellen Saxon, Andrea S. Griffin   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The circulation and distribution of classical Greek coinage

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract From a sample of the most prominent Greek city‐states, data involving a total of 999 hoards and 160,007 coins from 550 to 300 BC were collected to discern the relative magnitudes, consistency of issue, and distribution of Classical Greek coinages.
Zane Mullins
wiley   +1 more source

Perceptions and Attitudes of Parents Toward Vaccination of Children in Western Balkan Countries: Trust in the Function of Improving Public Health. [PDF]

Balkan Med J, 2021
Melovic B, Stojanovic AJ, Vulic TB, Baynazoğlu ME.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The former distribution of White‐tailed Eagles in Iberia, the Mediterranean and the Middle East: a case study of the importance of understanding historical distribution in informing current conservation and restoration interventions

Ibis, EarlyView.
The importance of considering historical data in developing conservation and restoration measures for individual species and for wider ecological restoration has been pointed out by recent reviews but often remains neglected in practice. This paper provides a case study illustrating the issue through a review of the former breeding distribution of the ...
Duncan J. Halley
wiley   +1 more source

The Impact of Electoral Gender Quota on Women’s Representation Trend in Parliaments of Western Balkan Countries

Politics in Central Europe
Although 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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