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...

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...

The European model’s entry into the third integration stage – The Economic and Monetary Union – has changed the conception of the macroeconomic policies. The „one for one” principle changed into the „one for all” principle. Within the Eurozone, all the member states can share both...

This article brings into question the increasing importance of creativity as a factor for regional development. For this purpose, it is briefly discussed the fine connection between culture, creativity and regional development and how creativity can increase the development of a region and...

International trade in services more and more is recognized as a sector with a lot of opportunities to be expanded in the international level market. Lithuania as one of countries which is perceived already as an emerging one has a lot of challenges to think about ways and means how to expand...

The events of December 1989 represented the trigger which determined the future evolution of Romania from an economic and political point of view. Among the first reform measures, adopted after the fall of communism, were also those regarding Romania’s commercial policy. Being aware of the...

In the past 50 years tourism has become one of the most rapidly developing industries. But tourism has become a big cultural and environmental problem in many areas due to strong short-term changes that do not take into account the long-term modifications that may appear.