The EU is confronted with a series of important problems. The two that interest us most in the present paper are the lack of competitiveness on international markets and the considerable internal (regional) imbalances. Since quite some time the EU has put policies in practice to address both...

The aim of this paper is to provide a contribution to the debate on the effectiveness of cohesion policies in Italy. It focuses on the effects of EU spending on the convergence process across Italian regions from 1996 to 2007. The empirical analysis is based on a neoclassical growth model which...

The difference between intergovernmentalism and multilevel governance is that intergovernmentalism focuses on the negotiation process between EU Member States and how resources are allocated to each country separately, while multilevel governance focuses on the negotiation processes taking place...

Today, when the national academic education system is chronically underfinanced, the universities must identify, more than ever, in addition to their current resources, other funding sources that will contribute at reaching the assumed missions. A significant funding source is represented by the...

Structural Funds audit is a requirement in the contract for financing the project and provides a range of activities such as: • analyze and verify the nature, legality and regularity of expenditure; verify the use of amounts received as advance; • auditing of third parties, dealing specially...

Sustainable development is the development that is corresponding to present needswithout compromising the future generations‘ possibilities in satisfying their own needs. Togetherwith Romania adhering to the European Union the concept of sustainable development is a priorityno matter the area...

The current debate on the role of regional politics in the Euro pean Union (EU) is dominated by approaches that focus upon either intergovernmental bargaining or multi-level govern ance. Because Structural Funds are the main EU-wide redis tributive policy, we propose to apply the traditional...

The evolution of what was the common market up to the European Union can be studied from different points of view. In this work we have taken the economic integration and, especially, economic, social and territorial cohesion as key to understanding a process that, despite the current crisis has...

Most Central and Eastern European countries have encountered problems in attracting EU structural funds in the post accession period. This paper analyzes the CEE absorption capacity of EU structural funds in 2007-2010, focusing on the case of Romania. Romania recorded at the end of 2010 the...

This paper is a review of the monograph entitled 'New model of socio-economic sustainable development of the Slovak Republic', edited in April 2012 by School of Economics and Management in Public Administration in Bratislava (SEMPA). The team of authors (Ing. Vladislav Bachar, CSc., Ing. Ondrej...