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...

This article aims to identify patterns in the trade of selected European Union countries over the recent period. 20 countries are under scrutiny, 10 old member states of the EU and 10 new member states. The main goal is to find evidence with regard to whether and to what extent the trade channel...

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...

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.

This paper aims to demonstrate that, in fact, building a coherent national system of consumer protection in Romanian domestic market was achieved mainly due to the process of accession to the European Union, to harmonize its system with that prevailing in Europe, and especially in context of the...

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;...