Welfare-state European model has been profoundly affected by the economic crisis. In this context, most of the EU member states decided to respond by undertaking short run policy measures. Government spending has been extended in order to create new jobs and to stimulate economic recovery. The...

The actual economic crisis reveals the problems within the public educational system. The malfunctions of this sector are augmented by the special significance of education for society and economic system. The modern theories of human capital emphasize the state’s important role in financing...

The European Union Leader initiative is an important chance for the development and tightening of the rural-urban continuum in Romania. Fundamental elements of this initiative are the local action groups. These local action groups are conceived rather as an ad hoc framework for exchanging ideas,...

Discrimination in Romania was not a subject of open debate for a long time. In post-communist period several steps towards this research direction were taken, this field of research becoming more widely once with the European Union accession in 2007. In this article we study ethnic...