US poverty is much higher than poverty in Europe when a relative poverty measure is used. Using an absolute poverty measurement method, the picture looks different: poverty in some European countries is higher. This paper estimates poverty rates for all the countries of the (old) EU and the USA...

Official poverty methodologies differ from other poverty measurement methods in the sense that the official ones are more often used as a benchmark to develop new policies as well as to evaluate the performance of existing programs. Europe has the tradition and the practice to use relative...

In 2004, Frits Bolkenstein, former European Commissioner for the Internal Market, brought in the attention of the European Commission “The Services Directive in the Internal Market”. The purpose of this directive was to liberalize the services’ market in the EU, a major regulated field,...

The energy security is a growing concern both of the EU governments, and of Brussels. The European officials have been working on a strategy that should ensure the energy security of the Union. Some of the main courses of action are as follows: increasing the energy output from regenerative...

This paper presents the general framework of the Romanian public administration, paying attention to the administrative and territorial organization of the country, the current political and administrative structure and the organization of public administration from a comparative perspective.

This work aims to describe the common European principles for public administration identified by SIGMA, as well as the principles of good governance and the principles of good administrative behaviour necessary for a proper functioning of the public administration.

This work aims to analyze the European Administrative Space, being this defined as a multidimensional concept, related to the enlargement of the European Union and implicitly with the administrative capacity.

This paper analyses the European Union pressure in the fight against corruption in the Romanian public administration, using as basis of analysis the evaluations of the European Commission until 2007 and the reports of the post-accession stage, issued in the period 2007-2012, under the...

Prestando especial atención a la condicionalidad como mecanismo de la europeización, este trabajo conceptualiza la interacción entre la Unión Europea y Rumanía. En consecuencia, consideramos conveniente presentar el modelo de condicionalidad de la Unión Europea en las relaciones con...