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The need for urgent actions regarding the worsening climate crisis has been stressed over and over again through campaigns, reports, international conferences and treaties regarding climate, there are various discussions regarding the best ways to mitigate the crisis and strategic actions are taken at various levels, from local to national and international. But unfortunately, there is still not a clear and cohesive effort to address the climate crisis at a global level, and therefore the many local and national initiatives have little impact in terms of decreasing or reversing the effects of climate change. Thus, one can note that the different approaches to the climate issue by various states are shaped by their particular economic and infrastructural development. In this respect, we can understand the climate action not as a sort of a reductionist policy in relation to the classic coal and petroleum-based economy, but as a strategy of ecological modernization. From this perspective we are asking what are the challenges of ecological modernization for a particular category of states - the postcommunist periphery of the European Union, such is the case of Romania, which is, alongside Bulgaria, one of the least developed countries amongst the post-communist camp. We will try to explore the way in which Romania is trying to shape its 21st century strategy for eco-modernization and how, at the same time, it's trying to fall in line with the European requirements that the EU assumed as a part of the Paris Agreement and through the European Green Deal. Therefore, in our paper we are trying to answer the following questions: how is Romania dealing with its post-communist industrial past in terms of eliminating sources of pollution, switching to sustainable energy and designing public policies aimed to engender a greener economy? What is the role the Eu should play in relation to its less developed members? We are planning to address the above mentioned questions by using Joseph Huber's theoretical framing of the concept of ecological modernization, and also Martin Jänicke's approach to the concept to provide a better understanding of the challenges faced by Romania in its struggle to tackle the climate crisis, and of the ways in which these can be successfully mitigated by the Romanian authorities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is meant to point out the phenomenon of loosing human capital, which became a characteristic aspects of the poor countries, that affects more and more their economy, in the favour of the developed countries. Even if this is a corollary of the globalization process, but the future for the developing countries will be not a good one, because of this exodus of brains; and even this is what our study is meant. The present approach is brought into light by qualitative means of observance, survey and study-case. The results of this research is quite a worrying situation for the donor countries, presenting the huge dimension, together with its economic and social consequences. Our paper could be useful both for the governments of these countries of origin, but also for researchers, academics and students. We hope that the readers will appreciate this attempt of awareness about the gravity of this situation and of its consequences for our country and remaining people here. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper represents a continuation of a previous contributions to the presentation of some of the most significant confrontations of the Romanian post-decade society, such as the demographic crisis, the situation of the road infrastructure and the education system. Unfortunately, it is also manifested in the health system, both through a sub-financing system, that is reflected in the material situation of the hospital units and in the salary level of the medical staff, thus generating an exodus towards the developed countries, as well as by a lack of coherence in health policies in the sense of prevention. As a direct consequence of these states of things, a series of diseases that before 1989 seemed to be eradicated, or at least kept under control, today are acutely manifested, placing Romania on the last place in the European Union and even more after some countries with a more modest economic development. Besides, throughout the article we propose a comparative approach with the European Union countries. The issue of the Romanian health system is also detailed in the territorial profile, as there are great differences between the counties of the country, regarding the number of doctors and the number of hospitals reported at the number of inhabitants. In order to accomplish this, we use in a balanced way the qualitative and quantitative aspects and the graphic method is a summary of the surprised aspects. Through our modest contribution, we want to sensitize potential readers to the difficulties, but especially to the magnitude of the crisis in this area of greatest importance that Romanian society is facing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]