The actual preparation and adoption of the euro is, for Romania, the most important challenge of the first decade after its accession at the EU. It puts to the test the policy and administrative capacity to conceive and implement a coherent program of m

The process of preparation and adoption of the European single currency is one of the most important challenges that Romania has to face in the first decade as a full time member of the European Union. This process will test both the political and the administrative capacity, requiring very...

This paper sets out to present a vision on the essence of the current economic crisis, proven through the causes, and especially through the consequences to be both somehow different but especially something else with regard to the usual alignments of Eco

This paper has the object to analyze to what extent Romania fulfils the Maastricht criteria in comparison to some countries which are candidate members from Central Europe, in the today's unfavorable context which has been achieved under the actual global financial and economic crisis and with...

The accession to the Economic and Monetary Union, though not a criterion of accessing the European Union, involves the compliance with the convergence criteria of Maastricht: stability of the exchange rate, of interest rates, of the inflation, of the external debt and budgetary deficit. Even if...

The analyses carried out both at the centre (Brussels) and at the destination (member states) (ab)use of the principle that in public expenditure terms “spent money means well-spent money” and consider that absorption capacity equals economic performance (equated quite disputably with...

The accession to EU represents a major economic and social opportunity for fundamental changes in micro and macro management and for reconsidering agriculture and rural areas in the process of sustainable development. Romania faces serious structural problems, such as the fragmentation of...

Following the new position of Romania as a member state of the EU, I consider it imperiously necessary knowing and approaching the problem of the nowadays phenomena the world trade and the world economy are confronting, EU according to today statistics being in the top of world exporters and on...

The beginning of the third millennium brought the globalization of the worldwide energy market. The fossil fuels, especially petroleum resources are, generally, limited and concentrated in few regions and the world energy market becomes more and more dependent of some “key regions”: the...

This article presents the great connection which exists between the technological development which has reverberation in communication field and how a state can exercise its power on international stage, how can consolidate its will and power, and how can