The complexity of the concept of competitiveness lies in the fact that the term is used in various levels of aggregation, allowing the generation of its different meanings at microeconomic, mezzo economic, and macroeconomic level. Based on the evidence of interdependence and complementarities of...

During its existence, EU has developed a socio-economic model defined in terms of responsibility, regulation and redistribution, aiming to provide for all member states both economic growth and social cohesion. Although we could identify more types of models within member states in accordance to...

About 12 years ago, some expert argue that the euro is the last big mistake of the European political class. The benefits are smaller than disadvantages. Free movement of people, goods and services is perfectly possible in a market without a single currency unit. Currency risk must be accepted...

EU enlargement in recent years implied profound changes in the new member states’ international trade; this is explained by the adoption of new principles of trade policy, new tools, able of reshaping international economic relations, causing phenomena of trade creations and trade diversion. Of...

Among the main aims of the European Union there are targets such as the achievement of a high level of employment or obtaining a permanent economic growth and raising the living standard. Achieving such objectives requires the necessity of establishing a common market that represents a single...

Elaborated in the, and in agreement with Priorities National Strategic Framework, the Sector context of national Developing Plan 2007-2013 Operational Program of Human Resources Development (SOP HRD) is an important instrument to sustain the economic development and the cultural structural...

The social policy is an ensemble of public policies pursuing the accomplishment of social protection and wealth. In Romania, the social protection strategy targets the following directions: protecting the employee trough an appropriate legislation; protecting the disadvantaged social groups;...

The paper realises a comparative analyses between an EU member state, a candidate one and Switzerland, in order to point out the importance of the adhering to the EU under the present global crisis using the main economic indicators during 2007-2011 and to understand why Switzerland is better...

At its inception, the Bologna Process was meant to stregthen the competitiveness and attractiveness of the European higher education and to foster student mobility and employability through the introduction of a system based on undergraduate and postgraduate studies with easily readable...

European Union is an example of the most advanced economic integration. While talking about a fairly long process, over 50 years, Europeans have adopted the tactics of small steps, but also well coordinated. If you think at any important moment of the European Union such as the realization of...