The paper analyses Romania’s competitiveness and knowledge-based economyin an EU comparative context for the 2006-2007 period. The main compared pillar-indices are the following: global competitiveness index;higher education and training; technological readiness; business sophistication;...

The strategic milestones of Romania’s integration efficiency to the European Union aims at the following more important aspects: developing a national strategy of sustainable development that should have as core the post-accession strategy in agreement with the EU decisions in this field, and...

The 2007-2013 programming period of the EU focuses on economic and social cohesion via three fundamental objectives: convergence – competitiveness and employment – European territorial co-operation. The horizontal dimension of cohesion policy refers to diminishing the regional disparities...