The European Union countries have different rates of economic development, therefore, in the European process of policy making for regional development, having as goal the unique convergence at European levels, one must take into account the stages covered by every country, especially the newly...

Romania has joined the European Union in 2007 along with lots of hopes. The question is about the positive effects of the integration. The Union has a complete set of policies concerning agriculture, industry, structural funds, labor force, development and research, micro and medium enterprises....

Besides its primary scope of supporting the lagging behind areas, the EU regional policy represents also the flexible companion of other EU objectives and policies: it was reshaped many times in order to meet EU challanges and realities, either these were linked to enlargement or to the...

Based on the review of literature, the paper shows that absorption problems regarding EU Structural Funds may be important. The topic of the paper is the question of how to measure the administrative capacities of some Candidate Countries for Structural Funds. There will be described a suitable...

The European funds do not represent an inward purpose, but instruments in reaching the objectives established at the level of the European Union, of the EU member state, based on the implementation documents. This research work displays diverse aspects concerning the irredeemable funds...

The European Union is one of the most prosper and competitive areas of the world, both from the point of view of the economic development, and the development potential. The structural and cohesion funds are those important financial sources promoted by the European Union for the purpose of...

The access to Social and Cohesion Funds offers Romania a possibility to develop the regions which are lagging behind, to modernize transport and environment infrastructure, to support rural development, to create new employment opportunities, to sustain social policies which will lead to the...