The local rural communities of Romania have been affected by the evolution of the history in the last decades. To these there have been added the years of centralised economy and afterwards the transition towards the market economy. All of these have put the inhabitants of the villages between...

This article starts with the main problems and challenges which the European labour markets have been facing in the last years, analyses the effects of the employment policies on the labour markets’ dynamic during 2000-2004, and names the political priorities within the labour market policies...