Although the focus of the EU is to increase economic performance and efficiency of the common market, in the last decade, the social issue has taken a new dimension and importance in the political agenda of the EU. This material realizes an analysis from a budgetary perspective of social...

Early XXth century, in Europe, marks the opening of economic thinking towards the negative effects of excessive industrialization: pollution, resource depletion, demographic factor degradation. Thus appeared so many theories that stated that in order to improve these negative effects the...

Indirect taxation among European Union Member States is particularly important considering that many of these indirect taxes account for over 30% to the formation of budget revenues. Between taxes on consumption very important are VAT and excise duties for which special efforts are being made in...

Although the recession originates in the U.S., it has spread rapidly in the EU and led to financial turmoil. Crisis symptoms are obvious and they remind us og the economic disaster that shattered the world about 80 years ago: the world trade collapsed, the capital vanished away, the banking...

The Romanian banking system is on the edge of becoming a mature one. Even if the last year represented a decrease of its profitability, the chance to be closer to the Western banking systems is still on the horizon. The main problem for the Romanian banks in 2010 is the government’s and...