From October 2011, when former Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin brought to attention the plan of creating a Eurasian union, many politicians, analysts and researchers dealing with matters of the ex-Soviet space regarded this as another initiative of re-Sovietizing the Russian Federation and...

Reducing economic discrepancies among the regions of the European Union is of constant concern for economic debates and analyses. This is the reason why convergence represents a crucial issue of intense research since the early 1990s. Although valuable progress has been achieved with respect to...

In the last 10 years a great number of Moldavian students enroll for Iasi universities, aiming to study, in order to correspond to the requests of the labor market, especially the European one. This paper represents the result of a study performed in order to emphasize the role of the front...

Since the entrepreneurial and creative spirit function plays an important role not only in private business but also in the public sector, this paper aims at investigating the relationship between entrepreneurship, innovation and public sector performance. Using composite indicators, the present...

The Eastern Neighbourhood is an important area for the European Union in terms of markets, investment location, energy supply, etc. The stabilization of the area by improving conditions for doing business in both economic and political terms is a primary interest of EU members and their business...

The EU is among the very few international organizations that can be easily explained by a supra-nationalist approach, in terms of common good principles or transfer of sovereignty. But we cannot exclude the fact that the Council of the EU still has the most important prerogatives in term of...

This paper aims at reflecting upon the EU potential as a transformative power in the Eastern countries, taking Georgia and Ukraine as case studies. Starting from a series of analyses of statistical data on the current economic situation of these countries (including the effects of the global...

An important feature of business cycles refers to the different behavior of capital goods prices compared to consumer goods prices. During economic expansion, the growing number of investment projects increases the prices of capital goods in a faster pace compared to the increase of consumer...

Nations and regions compete between them in order to attract high flows of foreign investments, due to their contribution to the national, regional and local development. Foreign investments contribute to the development of a competitive business environment, representing the main instrument for...

After the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001 and recently, on 15 April 2013, spent in Boston, policymakers of the Western governments were aware of the risks and threats to the national security of states and international security from the so-called "extend region of the Black Sea". This...