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This open letter issued by the international research community calls on Members of the European Parliament to halt the adoption of harmful provisions found in the current draft of the Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market, which could threaten Open Access and Open Science.

Inhaltsverzeichnis: Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of images -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Migrant, resistance -- EUrope in question -- Outline of the book -- 1 Resistance as method -- Resistance as catalyst and analytic -- Toward an ethnography of struggle -- Situating migrant resistance: three interventions -- Critical Border Studies -- The Autonomy of Migration -- Critical Citizenship Studies -- 2 Migratory dissent -- Formation -- Two worlds in one? -- Wrong/ing names -- Wrong/ing spaces -- Wrong behaviour -- Two worlds, many worlds -- Dissensual resistance -- 3 Migratory excess -- Greek-EUropean border dilemmas -- The borderscape of Lesvos -- Jawad -- Arash -- Azadi -- The borderscape of Athens -- Research notes, Athens -- Jaser and his family -- The borderscape of Patras -- The (not so) abandoned factory -- Lives of infamous migrants -- An excess of border violence -- Excessive resistance -- 4 Migratory solidarity -- We hope you will arrive -- Boats4People -- Where we might yet be going -- Solidarity in embodied encounters -- The WatchTheMed Alarm Phone -- The Central Mediterranean route, 193 distress cases -- The Eastern Mediterranean route, 1,582 distress cases -- The Western Mediterranean route, 279 distress cases -- Solidarity in unembodied encounters -- Solidarity as resistance -- 5 Diagnostics of EUrope -- Tracing EUrope through resistance -- Transborder EUrope (or, EUrope as migrant) -- Visibilising EUrope in border violence -- Humanitarian EUrope -- Becoming a humanitarian problem -- Post-racial and postcolonial EUrope -- Provincialising EUrope in racialised encounters -- Vocalising EUrope's umbilical connection -- EUrope, a dilemma -- 6 Analytics of power -- Modalities of power -- Biometric beatings -- Resisting what power with what resistance? -- Power of life, power over life -- Racialised power, spatialised power -- Confusing power, creating possibilities -- 7 A speculative blueprint -- Movements of freedom -- Utopian yearning, utopian enactment -- Open borders, no borders -- Lines of flight, lines of fight -- Bibliography -- Index.

This special issue addresses the nexus between transnational politics of remembrance, European integration and an emerging European public sphere. The overall goal is to develop a novel understanding of how symbolic politics are negotiated and implemented at the transnational level and how they are translated into local, national and supranational practices. The authors investigate transnational politics of remembrance using a variety of methods, thus moving beyond single-country and comparative studies. Approaches employed include ethnographic research, network analysis, elite interviews and policy analysis, among others. The articles assembled here offer innovative theoretical and empirical insights that go beyond abstract and normative perspectives that have dominated this area of research thus far. They address three key themes. In the first set of articles, European remembrance is analyzed as a field of transnational policy making in which individual and institutional actors compete through the use of various resources and the articulation of norms, interests, divergent political cultures and practices. Processes of agenda-setting, lobbying, decision-making, and implementation in the European Parliament, the Council of Europe and other transnational arenas are spotlighted here. In the second set of articles, authors take a relational perspective, examining how actors at different levels (local, national, supranational) cooperate, sometimes bypassing "official" channels of policy-making. These articles seek to answer the question of how network structures impact European memory-making in new ways. The third set of articles investigates how European memory is shaped by "marginal voices." They offer insight into how historical experiences such as slavery, migration, and the persecution of Roma are in- or excluded from European commemoration.

Urban mindscapes are structures of thinking about a city, built on conceptualisations of the city's physical landscape as well as on its image as transported through cultural representation, memory and imagination. This book pursues three main strands of inquiry in its exploration of these 'landscapes of the mind' in a European context. The first strand concerns the theory and methodology of researching urban mindscapes and urban 'imaginaries'. The second strand investigates some of the representations, symbols and collective images that feed into our understanding of European cities. It discusses representations of the city in literature, film, television and other cultural forms, which, in James Donald's phrase, constitute 'archives of urban images'. The third and last section of the volume concentrates on the relationship between the collective mindscapes of cities, urban policy and the practice of city marketing.

43 Pags.- 4 Tabls.- 5 Figs. The definitive version is available at: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/00489697 ; Rainfall is one the main drivers of soil erosion. The erosive force of rainfall is expressed as rainfall erosivity. Rainfall erosivity considers the rainfall amount and intensity, and is most commonly expressed as the R-factor in the USLE model and its revised version, RUSLE. At national and continental levels, the scarce availability of data obliges soil erosion modellers to estimate this factor based on rainfall data with only low temporal resolution (daily, monthly, annual averages). The purpose of this study is to assess rainfall erosivity in Europe in the form of the RUSLE R-factor, based on the best available datasets. Data have been collected from 1541 precipitation stations in all European Union (EU) Member States and Switzerland, with temporal resolutions of 5 to 60 min. The R-factor values calculated from precipitation data of different temporal resolutions were normalised to R-factor values with temporal resolutions of 30 min using linear regression functions. Precipitation time series ranged from a minimum of 5 years to a maximum of 40 years. The average time series per precipitation station is around 17.1 years, the most datasets including the first decade of the 21st century. Gaussian Process Regression (GPR) has been used to interpolate the R-factor station values to a European rainfall erosivity map at 1 km resolution. The covariates used for the R-factor interpolation were climatic data (total precipitation, seasonal precipitation, precipitation of driest/wettest months, average temperature), elevation and latitude/longitude. The mean R-factor for the EU plus Switzerland is 722 MJ mm ha− 1 h− 1 yr− 1, with the highest values (> 1000 MJ mm ha− 1 h− 1 yr− 1) in the Mediterranean and alpine regions and the lowest (< 500 MJ mm ha− 1 h− 1 yr− 1) in the Nordic countries. The erosivity density (erosivity normalised to annual precipitation amounts) was also the highest in Mediterranean regions which implies high risk for erosive events and floods. ; Peer reviewed

Cross-border debt recovery is still too often synonymous with no payment for creditors. Traditionally, debt collection has been divided into preparation for enforcement and execution. The former is characterized by the safeguarding of rights, which means by carrying out of a protective measure or by the necessity of obtaining a cross-border debt acknowledgement which may make the forced execution reality. The effectiveness of European mechanisms is limited by the respect of fundamental procedural rights in the face of the usual distance barriers (deadline, language, access to information, multiplicity of procedural rules, etc.). Today, the historic exequatur procedure is partially replaced in the European Union by direct effect recovery mechanisms, particularly in civil and commercial matters. However, European forced execution remains a matter dealt with under the principle of territoriality. The implementation of a European measure remains a topical issue, while its concrete implementation would surely (partly) solve this problem. ; Le domaine transfrontalier est encore trop souvent synonyme d'irrécouvrabilité pour les créanciers. Traditionnellement, le recouvrement d'une dette se scinde en préparation de l'exécution forcée puis en son exécution. La préparation de l'exécution est caractérisée par la sauvegarde des droits, soit la réalisation de mesure conservatoire ou l'obtention d'un titre dont la reconnaissance transfrontalière pourra concrétiser la réalisation de l'exécution forcée. L'efficacité des mécanismes européens est conditionnée par le respect des droits fondamentaux de procédure face aux barrières usuelles de la distance (délai, langue, accès aux renseignements, multiplicité des règles procédurales etc.). Aujourd'hui, la procédure historique d'exequatur est partiellement remplacée sur le territoire de l'Union européenne, par des mécanismes de recouvrement d'effet direct notamment en matière civile et commerciale. Toutefois, l'exécution forcée européenne demeure assujettie au principe de la ...

Cross-border debt recovery is still too often synonymous with no payment for creditors. Traditionally, debt collection has been divided into preparation for enforcement and execution. The former is characterized by the safeguarding of rights, which means by carrying out of a protective measure or by the necessity of obtaining a cross-border debt acknowledgement which may make the forced execution reality. The effectiveness of European mechanisms is limited by the respect of fundamental procedural rights in the face of the usual distance barriers (deadline, language, access to information, multiplicity of procedural rules, etc.). Today, the historic exequatur procedure is partially replaced in the European Union by direct effect recovery mechanisms, particularly in civil and commercial matters. However, European forced execution remains a matter dealt with under the principle of territoriality. The implementation of a European measure remains a topical issue, while its concrete implementation would surely (partly) solve this problem. ; Le domaine transfrontalier est encore trop souvent synonyme d'irrécouvrabilité pour les créanciers. Traditionnellement, le recouvrement d'une dette se scinde en préparation de l'exécution forcée puis en son exécution. La préparation de l'exécution est caractérisée par la sauvegarde des droits, soit la réalisation de mesure conservatoire ou l'obtention d'un titre dont la reconnaissance transfrontalière pourra concrétiser la réalisation de l'exécution forcée. L'efficacité des mécanismes européens est conditionnée par le respect des droits fondamentaux de procédure face aux barrières usuelles de la distance (délai, langue, accès aux renseignements, multiplicité des règles procédurales etc.). Aujourd'hui, la procédure historique d'exequatur est partiellement remplacée sur le territoire de l'Union européenne, par des mécanismes de recouvrement d'effet direct notamment en matière civile et commerciale. Toutefois, l'exécution forcée européenne demeure assujettie au principe de la ...

Cross-border debt recovery is still too often synonymous with no payment for creditors. Traditionally, debt collection has been divided into preparation for enforcement and execution. The former is characterized by the safeguarding of rights, which means by carrying out of a protective measure or by the necessity of obtaining a cross-border debt acknowledgement which may make the forced execution reality. The effectiveness of European mechanisms is limited by the respect of fundamental procedural rights in the face of the usual distance barriers (deadline, language, access to information, multiplicity of procedural rules, etc.). Today, the historic exequatur procedure is partially replaced in the European Union by direct effect recovery mechanisms, particularly in civil and commercial matters. However, European forced execution remains a matter dealt with under the principle of territoriality. The implementation of a European measure remains a topical issue, while its concrete implementation would surely (partly) solve this problem. ; Le domaine transfrontalier est encore trop souvent synonyme d'irrécouvrabilité pour les créanciers. Traditionnellement, le recouvrement d'une dette se scinde en préparation de l'exécution forcée puis en son exécution. La préparation de l'exécution est caractérisée par la sauvegarde des droits, soit la réalisation de mesure conservatoire ou l'obtention d'un titre dont la reconnaissance transfrontalière pourra concrétiser la réalisation de l'exécution forcée. L'efficacité des mécanismes européens est conditionnée par le respect des droits fondamentaux de procédure face aux barrières usuelles de la distance (délai, langue, accès aux renseignements, multiplicité des règles procédurales etc.). Aujourd'hui, la procédure historique d'exequatur est partiellement remplacée sur le territoire de l'Union européenne, par des mécanismes de recouvrement d'effet direct notamment en matière civile et commerciale. Toutefois, l'exécution forcée européenne demeure assujettie au principe de la ...

Guillaumont und Guillaumont Jeanneney diskutieren die Zukunft der Franc-Zone nachdem die Leitwährung durch den Euro ersetzt worden ist. Lemaitre lässt die europäisch-afrikanischen Beziehungen seit den römischen Verträgen Revue passieren; Oumar Sy tut eben dies aus afrikanischer Perspektive und brandmarkt die Marginalisierung Afrikas im Welthandel. Die Präsidentin des Europäischen Parlaments, Nicole Fontaine, der EU-Kommissar für Außenhandel, Pascal Lamy, und der EU-Kommissar für Entwicklung und humanitäre Hilfe, Poul Nielson, werden in drei Interviews zum Stand der europäisch-afrikanischen Beziehungen und deren Perspektiven befragt. Braeckman argumentiert, dass eine EU-Politik gegenüber Zentralafrika wegen der unterschiedlichen Interessen der EU-Mitglieder in dieser Region praktisch nicht existent ist. (D³I-Sbd)