Open Government, Social Media and Western Balkan Countries
This article analyses the presence and activity on the field of social media in the countries that belonged to the same state in the past: Bosnia and Herzegovina (BIH), Kosovo, Montenegro, Serbia, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia – these named ...
Mirela Mabić, Dražena Gašpar
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This policy brief provides results regarding productivity levels and dynamics in the Western Balkan countries in a comparative perspective, drawing on the newly established wiiw Western Balkan Productivity Database.
Schwarzhappel, Monika +2 more
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External Actors, Pressures and Influences: European Integration and the Outside World
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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The Western Balkan States' Perception of Turkey's Foreign Policy Since 2002
Bu tez, Türkiye'nin Dış Politikası'ndaki Batı Balkan Ülkeleri'ne yönelik değişimi, uygulanan dış politikanın bu ülkelere olan etkisini ve bu devletlerin uygulanan dış politikaya yönelik algısını analiz etmektedir.
Musıc, Esmır
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The Agencies of the European Union: A Glimmer of Hope for Enlargement?
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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"Fake, Partial and Imposed Compliance: The Limits of the EU's Normative Power in the Western Balkans." CEPS Working Document No. 274, July 2007 [PDF]
This paper examines the EU's external power through the prism of perceptions by non-EU countries of the aims of EU foreign policies, as shown in the Western Balkans.
Noutcheva, Gergana.
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Scrutinising Frontex: The European Parliament and Accountability through Discharge
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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Internal Globalization of Western Balkan Internal Globalization of Western Balkan
Summary: What are potential and real effects of the globalization process on the economic connection between Western Balkan countries? What is the crucial change in relations between Western Balkan countries and its economies inexorably brought by ...
Veselin Vukotić
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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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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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