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Fundamental Rights Impact Assessment and Algorithmic Public Administration: What South-East European Public Authorities Can Learn from the EU AI Act

The central legal question is not whether AI will replace the civil servant, but whether it will quietly reshape the legal conditions under which public authority is exercised. When an algorithm ranks, flags, predicts or recommends within an administrative procedure, digitalisation gives way to something more consequential: algorithmic public power. This is why the Fundamental …

Operationalising Fundamentals: Rule of Law Conditionality in the EU Growth Plan

The EU Growth Plan for the Western Balkans was introduced in 2023 as a complementary enlargement instrument designed to foster economic convergence and social development alongside the broader Europeanisation process. What distinguishes this instrument, however, is not merely its economic ambition but its method – modelled on the Recovery and Resilience Facility, the Growth Plan …

The Strasbourg Barometer: Assessing the State of Human Rights Protection in South-East Europe in 2025

In 2025, the European Convention on Human Rights commemorated its 75th anniversary. For the legal community, this milestone is not merely ceremonial; it represents three-quarters of a century of building a “common public order” across the continent. Yet, for the nations of South-East Europe, the data from this anniversary year serves less as a celebration …