The current volume represents the outcome of the international conference “National and European Values of Public Administration in the Balkans,” organised in Bucharest on 15-16 July 2011. The conference has been organised by Jean Monnet research network dedicated to “South-Eastern...

The current volume reproduces papers presented in the Workshop which was organized in Athens, in February 2010 by the European Public Law Organization (EPLO) and the Faculty of Public Administration – National School of Political Studies and Public Administration (NSPSPA), Bucharest. The...

The analysis provided herewith presents the state of the administration on central, regional and local level and its preparedness to work in the context of EU membership. The analysis depicts the basic tendencies, challenges and prospects in the modernisation of the state administration for the...

This text considers the challenges in front of Bulgarian public administration in the light of the expanding European administrative space. It makes an attempt at outlining the way for changing the pattern of Bulgaria's institutional environment and the necessity of significant change in the...

Contemporary state administration is continuously challenged by the fast-changing national and international conditions. In modern states, administration on all levels of governance is continuously in the process of elaboration and adaptation to the changes that surround it. State administration...

Since the conceptual framework of the European Administrative Space (EAS) in 1990s, at least two convergent trends may be found out. The first trend refers to EAS operationalisation as instrument and mechanism for assessing the reforms of the national public administrations. Herewith, we refer...