Internal Judicial Independence in the EU and Ghosts from the Socialist Past: Why the Court of Justice Should Not Follow AG Pikamäe in Hann-Invest by Nika Bačić Selanec, Davor Petrić

“…In the preliminary reference – the first reference on the state of the rule of law and independence of the judiciary in Croatia – the referring national court questioned whether the Croatian mechanism for ensuring consistency of case law of second-instance national courts and the Supreme Court complies with Article 19(1) TEU. …”
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New Frontiers for Article 19(1) TEU: A Comment on Joined Cases C-554/21, C-622/21 and C-727/21 Hann-Invest by Nika Bačić Selanec, Davor Petrić

“…But the judgment also has profound transversal relevance for future developments in EU law. In Hann-Invest, the Court of Justice ruled that Article 19(1) TEU precludes the Croatian judicial mechanism from ensuring the uniform application of the national case law. …”
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Challenges in exercising the right to annual leave for workers on long-term sick leave in the Republic of Croatia by Bjelić-Gaćeša Dragana

“…The aim of the paper is to analyse the relevant provisions of the Croatian positive law concerning the right to paid annual leave and the possibility of transfer it to it to the next calendar year over, to correlation them with the relevant European directives and judgments of the Court of Justice of the EU, to draw conclusions on their compliance with EU law, and discuss their impact on the position of workers and employers in the Republic of Croatia.…”
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The General Assembly Resolution ˝Protection of the Environment in Relation to Armed Conflicts˝ of 2022: Where We Stand 30 Years after by Vesna Barić Punda, Irena Nišević

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The European Parliament’s Proposal for an EU State of Emergency Clause: A Comparative and Constitutional Analysis by Guido Bellenghi

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Interpreting EU Internal Market Powers in Light of Article 9 TFEU Social Objectives: Implications for the Attribution of Competences by Silvia Giudici

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Accelerated expansion of NATO into the Balkans as a consequence of Euro-Atlantic Discord by S. Gajić, E. G. Ponomareva

“…Georgia’s attack on South Ossetia crossed Russia’s red lines and exposed the latter’s ambitions to regain the superpower status; China symbolically showed the same ambition with the Olympics in Beijing; the crash of the US real-estate market triggered the global economic crisis; and the NATO-sponsored unilateral declaration of secession by Kosovo Albanians set a precedent and introduced uncertainty in international law and the entire system of United Nations. By the beginning of 2020, many problems had accumulated in the EU – against the background of the ongoing migration crisis, right-wing and nationalist movements became more active, and differences between members increased. …”
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Using Image-based AI for insect monitoring and conservation - InsectAI COST Action by Tom August, Mario Balzan, Paul Bodesheim, Gunnar Brehm, Lisette Cantú-Salazar, Sílvia Castro, Joseph Chipperfield, Guillaume Ghisbain, Alba Gomez-Segura, Jérémie Goulnik, Quentin Groom, Laurens Hogeweg, Chantal Huijbers, Andreas Kamilaris, Karolis Kazlauskis, Wouter Koch, Dimitri Korsch, João Loureiro, Youri Martin, Angeliki Martinou, Kent McFarland, Xavier Mestdagh, Denis Michez, Charlie Outhwaite, Luca Pegoraro, Nadja Pernat, Lars Pettersson, Pavel Pipek, Cristina Preda, David Rolnick, Tobias Roth, David Roy, Helen Roy, Veljo Runnel, Martina Sasic, Dmitry Schigel, Julie Sheard, Cecilie Svenningsen, Heliana Teixeira, Nicolas Titeux, Thomas Tscheulin, Elli Tzirkalli, Marijn van der Velde, Roel van Klink, Nicolas Vereecken, Sarah Vray, Toke Thomas Høye

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