This chapter aims to focus and further develop the issue of the importance of the EU integration process for the improvement of the regulatory quality and rule of law in Western Balkan countries. The process of legislative reforms started in parallel with their transition process from socialist...

This Paper analyses the importance of regulatory reform for the creation of an effective legal and regulatory system in Western Balkan countries. The authors explore the progress achieved in this reform area, arguing that regulatory reform was mostly partial, focused on specific sectors and...

Supporting its developing member countries (DMCs) affected by fragility and conflict is a high priority for the Asian Development Bank (ADB). This is demonstrated by ADB’s adoption of its 2007 approach, which responds to the special challenges faced by DMCs experiencing conditions that are now...

Manejar uma floresta é administrar a obtenção de benefícios econômicos, sociais e ambientais, respeitando-se os mecanismos de sustentabilidade do ecossistema. O objetivo do artigo é identificar as etapas que compreendem o manejo florestal sustentável e propor um plano operacional para...

Rodriguez-Pose A. and Fratesi U. (2004) Between development and social policies: the impact of European Structural Funds in Objective 1 regions, Reg. Studies 38, 97-113. European regional support has grown in parallel with European integration. The funds targeted at achieving greater economic...

The budget of European Union is the act which each year authorizes the funding of all Community activities and operations. It allocates resources in a manner which reflects current priorities and policies. The paper presents mainly the following aspects: how is the European Union budget draw up,...

The development problems of the present society could be resumed in a synthetically manner as being included in two large conceptual categories: poverty and competitiveness. The EU action through regional policy consists in trying to cover all these types of problems, providing support both for...

During the first three years since joining the European Union, Romania has absorbed only 600 million Euros of the 5.6 billion Euros available, that is approximately 10% of the available European funds. During the 2007-2013 period, Romania disposed of a total amount of 19.8 billion Euros, but by...

This research note elaborates on the role of electoral mobilization in the allocation of EU structural funding. Revising current findings on the German Länder, I show that stronghold regions with a high level of electoral mobilization receive more money. This strategy is conceptualized as...

The European Union budget is distributed primarily in the form of intergovernmental grants to sub-state governments, which invest the grants in local projects. Transfers are allocated under the auspices of the European structural funds. This article assesses the causal links between electoral...