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Road to Europe: Between the Berlin Process and the Open Balkan Initiative [PDF]
The Open Balkan initiative has been partially supported by the leadership of the Western Balkans. If years ago it seemed a political whim, currently it constitutes a highly conditional factor from a two-level perspective: firstly, in the bilateral ...
Gelanda Shkurtaj
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Trade Barriers and Exports between Western Balkan Countries
Abstract The aim of the paper is to identify the trade barriers imposed by the Western Balkan countries. All barriers, whether tariff or non-tariff, undoubtedly impede the normal development of trade between countries. Therefore, the paper examines merchandise trade patterns in the Western Balkan region and tries to identify the main ...
Bellaqa, Bashkim, Jusufi, Gezim
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Is a Food Shortage Coming to the Western Balkans?
In the wake of the international food crisis, many countries are paying more attention to food self-sufficiency to protect themselves from instability in the global food markets.
T. Brankov, Bojan Matkovski
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Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Landscape Transformation in Western Balkans’ Metropolitan Areas
Human-caused landscape transformation represents a danger to conserving the Earth’s natural habitats. Landscape fragmentation (LF) caused by transportation infrastructure and urban development poses a threat to human and environmental health by ...
Isra Hyka +6 more
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Early Pliocene Varanus (Squamata, Varanidae) remains from Megalo Emvolon, Thessaloniki, Greece
The article describes new cranial and postcranial varanid material from Megalo Emvolon Lower Pliocene vertebrate fossil site near Thessaloniki. The fossils, likely representing a single individual, are referred to Varanus cf. marathonensis. Abstract This study describes new fossil varanid material from a recently discovered fossil spot (MVL site) at ...
Chara Drakopoulou +3 more
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Impact of good governance in the economic development of Western Balkan countries
After the socio-economic transformation and the establishment of the free market institutions, the development and improvement of living standards in post transition economies are deemed to depend more and more on the so called secondary “generating ...
Engjell Pere
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ABSTRACT As global climate ambitions intensify, the key challenge lies not in setting renewable energy targets but in designing governance systems that can translate them into lasting transformation. The transition management literature has advanced a valuable research agenda for initiating change through niche innovations and participatory arenas in ...
Alexander L. Q. Chen‐Florea +2 more
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Building the Plane While Flying It: How Projects Serve to Implement, Pilot and Co‐Create EU Policy
ABSTRACT This article theorizes how projectified governance enables bottom‐up policy shaping in the EU, using the European Universities Initiative (EUI) as a case study. It develops a framework that combines bottom‐up Europeanization with resource exchange theory to explain how project networks influence EU policymaking.
Alina Felder‐Stindt
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The ability to predict climate fluctuations at seasonal timescales offers significant socio‐economic benefits. However, limited understanding of predictability mechanisms and model errors hinders forecast quality. Recent research has improved forecasting systems and data quality.
Gualdi Silvio +12 more
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Impact of economic factors on life insurance development in Western Balkan Countries [PDF]
Life insurance market in Western Balkan countries is underdeveloped compared to other European countries, but in the recent decade it has been developing moderately under the influence of various factors, primarily economic, but also demographic ...
Milijana Novović Burić +3 more
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