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Lost in Implementation: EU Law Application in Albanian Legal System

By: Bojana Hajdini and  Gentjan Skara  
Open Access
|Aug 2017

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/jles-2017-0003 | Journal eISSN: 2457-9017 | Journal ISSN: 2392-7054
Language: English
Page range: 43 - 64
Submitted on: Feb 1, 2017
Accepted on: May 1, 2017
Published on: Aug 2, 2017
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