Multitudes relocate to Europe every year to escape political oppression, pursue economic opportunity and flee war zones. But integrating many of these immigrants and refugees into Europe has been difficult, and Europeans express concern that uncontrolled migration could threaten their culture....

The supply and use table is a valuable framework to collect and arrange the facts regarding the production and consumprion activities, including the characterization of goods and services subjected to trade. As data are collected, the calculation of product share weights allows the determination...

This study treats the evolution of the private property concept in Romania. In this attempt, authors analyze legal texts which regulate the judicial concept of private property (Constitution, Civil Code, special laws). There are presented the contents and limits of private property, the...

Pipelines that carry much of the world’s oil and gas snake through the depths of the Black Sea, the frigid waters of the Russian Arctic and cross some of the world’s most dangerous conflict zones. The value of these pipelines, oil and gas installations, and nuclear power plants makes them...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel spent four days in early March 2011, like many around the world, watching the nuclear disaster in Fukushima, Japan, unfold on television. These events caused Merkel, a reasoned supporter of nuclear energy, to make a radical change in direction. On March 15, Merkel...

More than five decades after World War ii and two decades since the end of the cold War and its corresponding threat of nuclear annihilation, existential security concerns seem far from the minds of average Europeans. This sense of safety, combined with tight government budgets in a time of...

In the heat of the debt crisis, German Chancellor Angela Merkel made an admission that clarified for many the stark choices facing Europe: rolling government debt too far into the future was no longer an option for Germany because there was no guarantee the country’s aging population could...

This paper analyzes the evolution of some aspects of the Romanian economy. We consider the evolution of the consumption prices as one of the most important factors in the situation and dynamics of economical degree of stability, and economic strength. The inflation ratio is influenced by the...

This paper describes the characteristics of the Laspeyres and Paasche indices, as there are increasing requirements for the analysis of prices, quantities and basekt vectors. Both Laspeyres and Paasche are valuable choice for financial and economic analyses.