Exceptionally warm spring temperatures, combined with adequate water supply in most parts of Europe benefitted winter crops and created favourable conditions for the sowing and emergence of spring cereals and summer crops. Weather conditions have been particularly favourable in the Iberian Penin...

This thesis examines how linguistic diversity is legally regulated in the European Union by offering a comprehensive overview and analysis of the different ways in which the European Union, directly or indirectly, regulates the use of languages on its territory and promotes linguistic diversity....

This thesis exposes and explores the disconnection between the strong legal and constitutional potential of the EU’s reproductive prohibitions (on eugenics, reproductive cloning and heritable genome editing) and the political reality of bioethical subsidiarity. These prohibitions, contained in t...

The European Union aspires to be united in diversity. The defence, promotion and valuing of linguistic diversity plays a fundamental role in this quest. Languages are incredible tools with which we think, learn, relate to the world and communicate with others. They are also embedded in our ident...

Disaster Risk Management (DRM) is a complex and interdisciplinary field that requires accurate, reliable visual products and reporting material to support the decision making process. In the disaster cycle there are two key phases to consider: before and after the event. Each phase consists of v...

During the 20th century, a flurry of historical and theoretical studies contributed to a renewed and sustained scholarship on English republicanism and the political thought of Algernon Sidney (1623-1683). This literature on Sidney has predominantly been in English, French, Italian, and Portugue...

Scholarship on the Irish in Europe has flourished in recent decades and studies examining the network(s) of Irish Catholic continental colleges and their members have formed a significant part of this. However, much of the existing literature focuses on the early modern period, while the 19th ce...

Yield forecasts for winter crops are well above the 5-year average but below last year’s level. Overall, crops are in good condition, notably in south-eastern regions....

A severe drought is currently affecting southern Africa and the Zambezi basin, with extremely dry and warm conditions from October 2023 to March 2024. Heatwaves are exacerbating the impacts of the lack of precipitation. The average temperature is abnormally high, registering record values since ...

Can you imagine a European literary Prize, covering the 40 or so countries taking part in the Creative Europe programme, with the ambition of raising the profile and recognition of authors who have received little or no translation? And if so, how can it be organised and how can the authors rece...