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“Product Placement”: The harmonization of the new Albanian media law with the European Audio-Visual Media Services Directive

Endira Bushati · University of Tirana, Albania
With the Audio-Visual Media Services (AVMS) Directive the explicit regulation of product placement is introduced into the framework of European media law. The product placement is today one of most debated issue for the media law experts in Europe. What is the “product placement”? In what kind of pr…
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Loss of parental responsibility – a new legal instrument between need of protection of the best interest of the child and respect of parent fundamental rights

Sonila Omari · University of Tirana, Albania
The new Albanian Family Code provides an additional measure reading the protection of the child, namely, the “loss of parental responsibility.” Differently from the measure of “removal of the parental responsibility” that is provided in the civil code provisions, this new measure has been introduced…
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Bismarck’s Orphan: The Modern World and Its Destiny, from “Disenchantment” to the “Steel Cage”

Franco Ferrarotti · Prof. Emeritus of La Sapienza University, Italy. Founde…
The major contribution of Max Weber, according to the author, is to be seen in the concept of the “modern world” and its destiny as a society based on rational calculation. Such modern rationality is technically equipped and formal from a logical point of view. It provides a link between desired soc…
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A general overview of the literature for children in the first part of the 20th century

Rudina Alimerko · University of Vlore "Ismail Qemali", Albania
Although in the first decades of the 20th century the Albanian literature for children did not recognize any distinguished literary work, a series of liberation insurrections in north and south as well as the Declaration of Independence in 1912 show the great efforts of our Renaissance figures who w…
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The Spiritual Connection of the Shushica Valley Locals to their Living Place

Fatlinda Shkurti · University of Vlore "Ismail Qemali", Albania
In this article we will deal with the issue of a population’s attitude to and estimation of the geographical environment it lives in with regard to the feelings created in this population with the passing of time. We will then mention some of the physical and geographical characteristics of the stud…
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Albania, the human factor and sustainable development: a lesson from the present

Arta Musaraj · ETC - Entrepreneturship Training Center, Albania
Albania as all Balkan countries in general, in the past 20 years faced with deep and continuous socio-economic change which resulted not simply in a totally newly shaped economy, but also in new and unexperienced paths of human resources developments. This referring to the qualitative, quantitative …
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The status of the Civil Servant and Rules of Ethics in Public Administration efficacy in preserving the integrity of civil servants and preventing corruption: the case of Albania

Eralda Çani · University of Tirana, Albania
Since several years already, a public law has been adopted in the Republic of Albania on the civil servants as well as their ethics in workplace. Integrity of civil servants and prevention of corruption are two key elements needed highly required from the latter aiming at serving the public interest…
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Visa liberalisation and economic implication for the Western Balkans

Ylber Sela · State University of Tetovo, North Macedonia
When in April, 2007, western Balkan countries started the facilitation of the visa agreement that will allow them extremely simplified procedures for visa application in order to enter EU countries, many of the citizens of this region that historically has been isolated were skeptical this will real…
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From A Climate Action Plan (CAP) to a Microgrid: The SEEU Sustainability Concept Including Social Aspects

Alajdin Abazi, Iljas Iljazi, Darko Spirovski · SEEU, South East University, North Macedonia
Following new global trends, the South East European University (SEEU), besides excellence in teaching and research, is committed to contributing to climate change effects and energy efficiency. SEEU will introduce a microgrid as a further step from the CAP towards energy sustainability. This paper …
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Development: What’s in a name?

Nurcan Baysal · Ozyegin Foundation. Director of Rural Development Progr…
The article looks into the process of the creation of development discourse in Turkey and its consequences on the field. In the first section of the article, amusing anectodes are given from 1990s during which this process unfolded and gave way to a “project industry” with the EU accession period in…
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The Greek crisis effects on the Albanian economy

Veronika Durmishi, Valbona Gjini · University of Vlore "Ismail Qemali", Albania
The study of the effects of the crisis of Greece has a special significance for two reasons: The first the large number of Albanian immigrants in Greece, and second is the fact that Greek investments are in sectors of economy. The first part of the analysis has to do with the effects of immigrants o…