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This paper sets out to investigate the impact of the VUCA world (Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, Ambiguity) on the vulnerability and resilience of incoming migrants in Romania, as well as on their integration patterns. Vulnerability and resilience are conceptualized through the four elements of the VUCA world. Data was collected through 35 semi-structured, psycho-social interviews, and 4 focus groups carried out between January 2020 and November 2021 with young migrants (aged 18 to 29). Participants came from two ethnic backgrounds: young migrants of Arab and Moldovan origins. Results show that much of VUCA is generated by the lack of employment opportunities and by the bureaucratic public administration. At the same time, the challenges raised by the VUCA world for migrants can be reduced through the improvement of destination language skills and through the development of social networks. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In 2010 Romania ratified the provisions stipulated in the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Various studies have highlighted the lack of opportunities, in almost all the domains of social life, for those that struggle with physical or cognitive disabilities, despite the fact that with adjustments, which sometimes require minor investments or just a change of mentality, they could become valuable resources for society. Our paper focuses on the manner in which the education of the students with disabilities can be facilitated at the "Nicolae Bălcescu" Land Forces Academy. Even though at present, in Romania, the military recruitment criteria do not permit the admission of students with disabilities for various reasons of security, numerous modalities can be found to integrate and to employ them, especially due to the endowment of the Academy and to the rapid advancement of technology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article aims to critically discuss the foreign policy of communist Romania, especially towards Western Europe and the socialist bloc. It does this firstly by reviewing Elena Dragomir's recent ample analyses of communist Romania's foreign policy. Its second section consists in a critical problematization of the allegedly "pragmatic" and "adaptative" nature of communist Romania's dealings with its Western and Eastern partners, as established both by Dragomir's recent contributions, as well as the traditional scholarship. The paper ends with some more general methodological and conceptual reflections on the role, weight, and meaning of "pragmatism," "realism," "context" and "ideology" in historiographical reconstructions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is based on a systematic and comprehensive review of the literature on the subject of systems' integration, trying to provide the most relevant definitions for the understanding of the concept of integration, processes and measures that can be used as instruments of planning, application and evaluation of the integration strategies that can be easily used by politics. Seen as a natural development of the society, not as a trend imposed by policymakers, integration is achieved in particular through an institutional and spatial dynamics, which usually results in network type configurations. The paper also presents an explanation related to the field of health. The first part represents a contextualization of the integration as phenomenon, followed by conceptual clarifications, and in the last part some coordinates of the mechanism of configuration of the networks in medical care systems are presented. From methodological standpoint this article resulted from the search, selection, evaluation and summaries of some papers focused on the economy and health policy systems in the field of health. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The author of the article analyzes European Union-Romania’s membership negotiations, that began on February 15, 2000 and exposes their basic problems. The author traced the dynamics of the negotiation process on the basis of EU and Romania documents and proved that the main purpose of negotiations was to comprehensively achieve Copenhagen criteria by Romania. The cooperation between EU and Romania developed on the basis of the provisions of the European Agreement within the framework of its institutions. The negotiation process of Romania’s accession to the European Union took place under the established procedure and was practically indistinguishable from the negotiations of other CEE countries. It is substantiated that despite the real reforms, increasing Romania’s promotion in the process of preparation for EU membership and real assistance to the EU to intensify Romania preparation for membership in 2004, but in October 2002 the EU institutions agreed on Romania’s joining the EU after 2004. It was established that the intensification of Romania’s efforts to implement the criteria for admission and the adoption in February 2004 of the financial package for its accession contributed to the closure of the most difficult issues of negotiations in 2004. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper uses a dynamic conditional correlation model to depict the degree of integration of Romanian stock market with other 22 stock markets from the European Union. Analyzing the results, we noticed that the dynamics of Romanian stock market integration varies, both in the analyzed periods and in relation with other markets. Also, the degree of Romanian stock market integration with other EU markets is quite low. In the case of most markets, the trend of Romania's integration follows a similar pattern. More exactly, the integration starts from low values in 2004-2007, reaches higher values during the global financial crisis and the sovereign debt crisis and, after 2012, descends and stabilizes around equilibrium values. The results obtained in this study are useful for investors and for the supervisory authorities, in order to adopt measures necessary to increase the degree of integration of the financial market in Romania. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this research is related to the issue of the adaptation of the students to academic life and the analysis of the difficulties faced by students when adapting to their new status. Considering these, we initiated a study that addressed the adaptation process in relation to the reasons and the ability to resist stress. This study had 146 participants, students from the Polytechnic University of Bucharest, who were asked a set of questions on the subject. The research has shown that many students face problems related to integration and adaptation to the new context of life. As a result, many of them considered dropping out of university. Also, one-third of interviewees believe that teachers did not contribute in accommodating students to the academic life. Only 10% of students have sought help from a psychotherapist, although many of them have considered this option. In the conclusions of this paper, solutions have been proposed to help the development and the maintenance of skills meant to help those involved in the process of adaptation. These solutions have been based on the development of relational-psychological and neuro-physiological abilities. With respect to relational-psychological solutions, we relied on the stimulation of creative capacity and, indirectly, supporting the manifestation of intellectual potential. When discussing the development of neuro-physiological abilities, we mainly referred to the development of the capacity to relax. We believe that this research can be a valuable information source, the results of which can be integrated into the administrative and educational endeavours of several categories of beneficiaries or decision-makers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Integration in European Union assumes obtaining certain benefits. Fisheries and aquaculture can provide a key contribution to food security and poverty alleviation. Employment in the sector has grown faster than the world's population, providing jobs and supports the livelihoods of hundreds of millions. Fish continues to be one of the mosttraded food commodities worldwide being very important for developing countries. However, productivity gains in fisheries do not always imply long-term increases in supply. Developing countries are continuing their efforts to clarify the linkage between development activities and sustainable resource use. Both population and economic growth are putting enormous additional pressures on inland and marine fisheries resources as contributors to food security and providers of a social safety net. At the same time, the use of domestic fisheries to generate foreign exchange is exacerbating allocation issues between artisan and industrial fleets. The actual fisheries legislation was influence by social, economic and environmental considerations. The paper proposes an integrated analysis of Romanian situation by means of data and statistics provided by European and national statistics institutions. Fisheries in general and aquaculture sector in particular could be regarded as an advantage for Romania in the European competition. The main problem of the Romanian fisheries is its unsatisfactory competitiveness both regarding the domestic and European market. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The main purpose of the paper is to examine the impact of foreign direct investment on the process of modernizing the Romanian economy and to develop recommendations on improving the investment climate and the efficient use of foreign investment to accelerate the pace of modernization of the national economy and Romania's effective participation in the European Union. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Romania, as a neighboring country, has also been affected by the refugee crisis since the beginning of the conflict in Ukraine. Whether as a destination or a transit route to other countries, in the last five months Romania has been a short, mid-, or longterm haven for many Ukrainian refugees. The government's measures to support refugees -- ranging from money for food and shelter to ensuring access to the Romanian labor market and education system - have often been ambiguous and incomprehensible. But these were completed by the massive mobilization of non-profit organizations, churches, and the population. Starting from the month of March 2022 until today, several hundred refugees have found shelter in the homes of the Evangelical Lutheran Church A.C. in Romania. The aim of the present paper is 1) to analyze the measures implemented by Evangelical Lutheran Church A.C. in Romania to provide a medium or long-term rapid response to the needs of Ukrainian refugees: accommodation, food, transport, assistance with funds, collection of food and goods, medical, psychological, or spiritual care; 2) to identify the limits, challenges, and the risks of working with refugees 3) to outline on the analyzed data the main lines of development of a church strategy regarding refugees, to what extent they can be integrated, given that we are talking about migrants who live mostly in transit, traumatized by the losses and destructions caused by the war, in the hope of a return as soon as possible. From a methodological point of view, the study is a qualitative one, the research methods used are participatory observation in the locations where the refugees are accommodated, biographical interview with the refugees, and interview with a group of experts [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present article aims to review some milestones which, when taken as a whole, offer a picture of the failure of post-December 1989 Romania, manifested through a massive exodus of its population; to highlight certain mechanisms that motivate the transposition of the migratory experience into literature; and to reveal the turning points of a difficult path, that of integration over there, as reflected in the social novel Male a Est. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper attempts to analyze the position of Romania concerning the project for European unification proposed by the French politician Aristide Briand. The Briand Project is the first project of European construction presented in official circumstances, during the meeting of the Society of Nations. The project of the European federal union focused on the political aspects, while the economic elements were subordinated to the political leaders. Romania approved the plan proposed by Briand, but issued some observations to make sure it didn't endanger the interest of its foreign policy. We will focus on the project regarding a European federal union as proposed by the famous French politician of the interwar period, but also on the reactions of Romania, taken by certain Romanian politicians, regarding this project. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The immigration crisis in Europe has brought an intensive debate over EU nations' shared responsibility toward integrating foreigners fleeing insecurity. In this context, Eastern EU countries have shown a lot of anxiety and reluctance to opening their societies to immigrants. The nature of this fear, beside the emerging threat of terrorism, is strongly linked to prejudices, and maybe to a chronic lack of know-how on integrating people without historical (or any other) ties with the host nation. This paper offers a comparative study between integration policies for immigrants in Sweden - a top ranking country in the Migrant Integration Policy Index (MIPEX) 2015 - and Romania, with the aim to determine areas to improve the latter's approach toward this issue. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Academic articles on minorities from Romania abound and many have been written both by Romanian academics and by foreign researchers. Since Romania became part of the European Union in 2007 and even in the years preceding this process, the Roma has been one of the most studied minorities in Romania and various institutions have focused on ethnicity in an attempt to on one hand help them integrate better into the overall Romanian and European society and, on the other hand, to increase social tolerance towards the Roma themselves. This article, written initially as a paper for a Harvard class on the development of social institutions over time, tries to provide a different understanding on the issue. It proposes that we briefly analyse the evolution of the Roma community throughout the centuries in order to understand why they are only partially integrated into Romanian and European society. At the same time, the current tensions between the Romanian state and other states on one side and the Roma community from Romania on the other show how general efforts to integrate the community are undoubtedly undermined. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

European countries have taken part in the Globalization process ever since the end of the Second World War. Being active members of international institutions like the IMF, World Bank Group, NATO or the WTO, the European countries have even developed a collective entity of their own, that of the European Union. In later years, Eastern European countries like Romania have also become a part of this globalised system. It is the aim of this paper to present the effects that this integration has brought in terms of economic development and security challenges for EU member states, by taking into consideration the example of Romania. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Amongst all European countries, Romania has one of the biggest immigrant communities abroad, and this has become a major social issue, especially after Romania became a member of the European Union. But what happens to these Romanian immigrants from the sociocultural point of view? Are they integrating themselves successfully in their adoptive countries? Which factors exert the most important influence in the process? How is sociocultural identity being reshaped by the immigration experience? In this paper, we shall try to find answers to all these questions, using already existing theories and studies, but also using a primary research on a group of high-skilled immigrants living in Italy and Great Britain. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper covers an important issue in national and international aspect: the migration processes and the legislation in Bulgaria. About 60,000 to 70,000 immigrants have been registered in the country but according to the National Statistical Institute (NSI) the number of immigrants residing in Bulgaria is between 300 and 350 thousand coming from more than 11 countries. The purpose of this study is to present an up-to-date picture of migration, in particular immigrants in Bulgaria, and their limited access to the labor market, health care, education, and social assistance. The authors use the methods of comparison, analysis, and data pooling. Secondary information from the authors' participation in the seminar Waves of Integration (TSUNAMI) in Caciulata, Romania, 2019 was also analyzed. The results of the survey show that the majority of the Bulgarian population perceives immigrants as a threat due to difficulties in their integration and in relation to the worse economic situation of the country compared to other European countries. In conclusion, migration in the country between 2017 and 2019, including illegal, is relatively low. The refugee crisis affects the Bulgarian population mainly politically and psychologically, and for asylum seekers Bulgaria is not a final destination but a transit territory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Inclusive education is a complex and lengthy process which requires continuous analysis, adjustments and development, in order to achieve inclusive policies and practices starting with the early education. In Romania there is a tradition of inclusive education, a tradition which was applied, in 2011, by the RENINCO Association. This organisation, along with its international partners, has set up a professional body for the promotion and implementation of inclusive education in Romania named GREI (Grupul Român Pentru Educație Incluzivă / The Romanian Body for Inclusive Education), whose main objective is to connect Romania to the European and international efforts to achieve inclusive education, and to sustain and develop the Romanian mode initiative, including its implementation at national and European level. The purpose of this paper is to present the findings of a study based on documents that contain the legislation, principles and strategies of integration of children with SEN in early education, with a view to implementing these in the integration of antepreschool children with SEN. It is well known that early identification of special needs offers the best chance for intervention and recuperation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper examines the decisive impact of Romania's Balkan heritage on its current position in the EU. Our study aims at proving that Romania's present status among the EU countries is not only a matter of perception from the outside, but also a matter of self - perception, both being shaped by the stereotypes pertaining to the concept of 'Balkanism'. Historically torn between the East and the West, the central and the liminal, the local and the global, the Balkan area has fostered a unique awareness of national identity, supported by a suspicious and defensive attitude towards the 'outside' and totally incongruent with the idea of integration. During the past years, the tension between its Balkan heritage and the integrative EU policies has generated a sense of identity crisis, due to which the Romanians find themselves "concomitantly inside and outside, actors in and audience at a play; owing to this ambiguity, they neither perform, nor watch very well"[1] [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Development and efficiency strategy of agricultural production in a certain area is based on the analysis of the economic and financial situation of the agricultural sector, which should take into account the adoption of those measures aimed primarily at increasing agricultural production and, secondly, making it more efficient by accessing European funds (1, 4, 6, 8, 11, 12, 13, 14, 16, 18, 21, 23, 24). These measures will have a major influence on increasing the efficiency of the Romanian agriculture by promoting farmers' managerial and marketing skills and orientation of farming activities to profitable investment, including integrated projects, by accessing EU funds (5, 6, 10, 15, 16). National Rural Development Programme is the instrument through which the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD) and the European Economic Recovery Plan (EERP) can be accessed, which complies with the strategic guidelines of the EU rural development (15,20). Achieving the desired objectives of the National Rural Development Programme 2007-2013 is provided by the Managing Authority for P.N.D.R., namely the General Directorate of Rural Development, belonging to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development. Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), in its actual form, consumes, through the complex system of subsidies and other financial incentives, about half of the common budget and is built around two pillars: the first is the common market organizations and covers common regulation measures of agricultural products integrated markets functioning, and the second, which gained magnitude in the past decade, is rural development and includes structural measures that target a harmonious rural development (diversification of activities, product quality, environmental protection) (24). Accessing European funds for agriculture and rural development is closely linked to the Agency for Payments and Intervention in Agriculture, which operates in three main areas, developing support measures financed from the national budget and European funds (6.16): a) direct payments and market measures; b) some measures financed from European funds for agriculture and rural development, established by the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development; c) payments which represent financial support from the national budget. Through the presented paper, the authors have proposed to highlight the main aspects that characterize the evolution of Botosani county's agriculture after Romania's adherence to the European Union (8, 11, 12, 22). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Before becoming the centripetal contemporary process, European integration was a personal, centrifugal undertaking in the emerging Romanian state. 19th century Romanian intellectuals would occasionally travel across the European continent and write accounts representing Europe as a model of civilization and culture to be integrated in their own land. Dinicu Golescu is such a traveler who not only produces what can be considered the first Romanian travelogue, but is also inspired by his European journeys to bring about change back home. Attempts such as his would gradually coagulate into a national reconfiguration project. This paper offers a close reading of Golescu's travelogue, analyzing how Europe is represented by this Romanian traveler and to what purpose, with a view to illustrating the dynamics of European integration through travel (and) writing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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THE PRESENT PAPER ANALYSIS THE TRANSFORMATION OF A NON-GOVERNMENTAL ACTOR IN THE CONTEXT OF THE INTEGRATION INTO EUROPEAN UNION. IN THIS CASE THE SUBJECT OF RESEARCH IS REPRESENTED BY THE REIONAL POLICY. MORE SPECIFICALLY, IT DEALS WITH A THOROUGH ANALYSIS OF THE „EUROPEANIZATION" THESIS, WHICH DETECTS A PARTICULAR TENDECY FOR THE AGENCY OF REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT. THE RELEVANCE OF THIS STUDY FOR THE AREA OF RESEARCH RESIDES IN THE POSSIBILITY TO GENERATE ADDITIONAL KNOWLEDGE FURTHER TO BE EMPLOYED IN A LARGER RESEARCH OR IN A MULTIDISCIPLINARY FRAMEWORK. IT IS IMPORTANT TO UNDERLINE THAT THE CHOSEN THEME TOUCHES UPON VARIOUS ASPECTS: EUROPEANIZATION, EUROPEAN INTEGRATION, REGIONAL POLICY. DESPITE THE SHORTCOMINGS INHERENT, THE PRESENT RESEARCH AIMS AT DEVELOPING A COHERENT ARGUMENT BASED ON EMPIRICAL OBSERVATION DERIVED FROM A VARIETY OF SOURCES AT HAND. THE METHODS CHOSEN ARE QUALITATIVE CONTENT ANALYSIS AND SECONDARY ANALYSIS OF OFFICIAL STATISTICS AND DATA COLLECTED BY OTHER RESEARCHERS. ALL IN ALL, THIS PAPER REINFORCED THE LARGELY CONTINGENT CHARACTER THAT REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT AGENCY HAS ALMOST ENTIRELY COMPLETED THE EUROPENIZATION STEPS. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Black Sea area forms a vital bridge between the East and West, mostly in terms of transport and energy supplies. It is in fact a region of enormous geo-political sensitivity and latest round of enlargement of the European Union brings the EU right up to the shores of the Black Sea. The Black Sea Region (BSR) is understood by the European institutions to reach well beyond the sea's actual shores. It includes three EU Member States, Romania, Bulgaria, Greece, and one candidate state, Turkey. It also includes Russia, Europe's major strategic partner to the East and a number of countries identified as Europe's neighbourhood: Republic of Moldova, Ukraine, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia. This paper is focused on showing regional concerns on marine environment protection and pollution prevention along with safety and security considerations in order to get a clear road of European integration with a clean and secured Black Sea. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper focuses on the landscape of marshes in the Land of Dorna, on the concept of landscape, as well as on the methods used in outlining its specific elements. The aim is to illustrate as accurate as possible the geographical reality of the Carpathian Mountains and to highlight the relationships between the natural and the anthropogenic environment. The outcome proved the veracity of the hypothesis made at the beginning of the study, that, in the end, the residents of the Land of Dorna have proved to be aware of the importance of the landscape of marshes, of its management and that, over time, they have managed to identify themselves with these sites, included in the perceived space. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper examines one of the integration dimensions, the economical one, concerning the women granted a form of protection in Romania. Highlight is put on the relevant factors, such as education level and professional experience, role of family and informal group/same ethnic community, cultural patterns etc. and their influence on the women.s decision to access the labor market. The second aspect we focus on is the NGO.s support in facilitating the access of the refugee women to labor market. The findings are based on interviews with women granted a form of protection in Romania and with NGO employees, conducted between September 2008 and February 2009. Before pointing out the conclusions of the study, we briefly describe and analyze the situation of persons granted a form of protection in Romania (refugees, persons with subsidiary protection) and their employment in terms of policy context, opportunities and barriers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Few migrants visit and stay in Romania. However, this situation is prone to change with Romania's imminent joining the Schengen treaty and the critical labor force shortages. It is not a surprise that Romanian institutions are trying to prepare and train for accommodating workers coming from other regions of the world. This paper describes the current housing and status of immigrants in Romania including the perception and the living conditions of immigrants from Romania. Tentatively, I will show that overall living conditions are good but somewhat worse than the locals. Finally, I associate the living conditions to predictors identified in other studies such as income and type of activity performed in the host country. The study is exploratory and intends to reveal information on how immigrants report on their living status in Romania. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Currently in Romania, the difficulties encountered by users with special reading needs, in terms of access to information and education, are obvious. The Paper aims to provide a panoramic view of the importance of their literacy through libraries. Another aspect that is approached is the role that the professionals that assist these special categories of users in its integration to the society play. Is reviewed the varied typology of this category of users, their information needs, but also the ways of networking between the users and library staff. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article proposes a sociological approach to the integration of students with SEN as a social problem, with an emphasis on how it is reflected and re-signified in the online print media in Romania. In the first part of the article, we will deal with the operational definition of the conceptof integration, special educational requirements and other emerging notions, and we will review anumber of relevant theoretical models from the field of sociology, special psychopedagogy and social psychology. Later, in order to know how the issue of integration is represented in the writtenpress, we analyzed a multitude of articles that focus on the issue. The results of the research bringto the fore the variables with which integration is correlated at the level of the media discourse, the most relevant of which are students from pre- university education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper discusses a particularly acute problem of the higher education in Romania, concerning the relatively low percentage of young people from rural areas who, after finishing secondary school, choose to continue their studies at an academic level. A study by the World Bank and The Ministry of Education and Research in 2008 revealed worrying results: only 3.7 % of the young people between 25 and 29 years of age who lived in rural areas had graduated from university; by comparison, the percentage of university graduates from urban areas was 27.2%. This disquieting reality draws attention on the necessity of implementing psychopedagogical and social programs for facilitating access to higher education for young people from disadvantaged areas. In this context, the aim of the present study is, firstly, to make an inventory of the factors that lead to the low insertion of high school graduates from rural areas into higher education. Secondly, starting from this analysis, we want to highlight some courses of action for improving the access to higher education for young people from disadvantaged social environments. It is our belief that a democratic society based on equity in integration must implement public policies meant to alleviate the discrepancies among the opportunities that young people coming from different social environments have, in what access to education is concerned. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

From a managerial point of view, all the media means of professional communication, socialization and interaction emphasize entrepreneurial success stories. One of the modern concerns of all current researchers is to underline the place and role of leaders in the institutional framework. The leadership is perceived as a support pillar in maintaining any business. The analysis of this phenomenon is extremely extensive, starting with the culture of a company, the purpose of its existence and comprises aspects concerning the employees motivation and the degree of identifying themselves with the organizational objective. A constant concern in analyzing this phenomenon is retaining the employees and encouraging them to bring added value to the organization where they perform their daily activities. Nevertheless, the Romanian banking system in Timişoara seems to display a strong resistance towards change. The leadership of this industry is comprised of people with great managerial abilities. The transactional method, manifested by the leader in the Romanian private banking system in Timişoara, seems to be the main phenomenon at the basis of their daily activity. The manager -- leader hypothesis is slowly taking shape. Due to the resistance to change, generated by the educational model, from a managerial point of view, the balance is strongly tilting towards the managerial traits at the expense of the leadership ones. We are still at the stage where the tolerance towards liberty, uncertainty, are some of the traits of the leader in the Romanian private banking system in Timişoara, which are poorly identified at the management level of this very important segment of activity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The emergence and the development of deaf sports represent a neglected topic by historians. The importance of this topic consists on highlighting of the efforts for the integration of the deaf people into sports movement and society as a whole into certain period of time. The aim of this article is to take into the light the ways in which deaf sports appeared in interwar Romania and the different difficulties which this initiative encountered. In this manner, there are emphasized the creation of the 'Deaf-and-Dumb Cultural and Sports Club' in Bucharest (1934), the fruitless endeavors of Vasile Dimitriu-Leorda for admission of deaf football teams in the competitions organized by the Romanian Football Federation, the creation of Romania's deaf national team (1938), and, also, Romania's participation in the 1939 Stockholm Summer Deaflympics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In our country, the post-industrial society is build in the context of the European integration of our national structures, a process that was assumed to create a larger convergence with the continental economic pole, and to consolidate the cultural and economic development of the citizens. Inside such overview, the crisis that brought a negative growth in our country and unbalanced the national markets of goods and labor was administrated in a simple manner by the authorities, who realized that it was much easier to raise expenses than to collect incomes in an unfortunate conjuncture. The comparative analysis of the strategic goals of the United Europe with the currently developed possibilities of the states to lever the financial and economic evolution, reveal the possibilities of the authorities' intervention to gain a favorable feed-back from the depressed economic environment. In Romania, depression started in 2008, and continued per 2009 and 2010, unemployment rose, and the foreign debt rose during the last three years. The short term tools used by the leadership and the current authorities were focused on the use of fiscal instruments, and theoretically on the "Supply Side" reviewed point. In this paper we express our point of view regarding the solution of re-launching the economy by fiscal policy. Also, we propose other solutions in the service of the society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In today's economy we are witnessing a phenomenon of integration in agriculture and food industry, which is an effect, but also a cause of the marketing and agrobusiness development. In well developed countries, and to a lesser extent in the less developed, such as Romania, we observe a serious intensification of interdependence relations between farms, food companies and distributors. Consequently, there is a phenomenon of growing distance between the place of production and consumption place, with impacts on the population's consumption habits. In these circumstances, marketing aims to ensure that food is brought in the place and form desired by the consumer, which requires that the producing companies must design strategies to adapt to specific conditions of different markets (local, regional, national, international). In this context, agricultural and food marketing becomes, for more and more companies, a kind of marketing whose target is aimed towards meeting society's best conditions and future needs. In fact, the agro-food sector is one of those sectors in which marketing companies are located in full force, agriculture (through interdependence with the natural environment) and food industry (through its impact on food safety and security of the population) occupying a place of great importance in ensuring sustainable economic and social development.. As a result of the adjustment process to continue to supply food products to consumers' growing demands, the tendency is to take over more and more agricultural products and process them into food products; the food industry is considerably reducing the time spent by the consumer cooking and it also ensures an assortment structure of agricultural products supply as close to consumers' tastes as it can be. In this paper, the authors have proposed to address some theoretical and practical aspects related to product strategy, which can be applied to Kosarom S.A. Pascani Group of Companies, Iasi County. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper discusses current inclusive education policies and practices in Romania. There are few accounts of and no systematic study published on this topic. The Romanian special educational policies began to evolve towards integration and inclusion. Today, Romanian special education functions according to democratic principles and Romanian specialists are currently working for solutions to inclusion by adapting regular school services to the needs of the students and the specifics of the current educational system. Today there is still a series of obstacles to the development of special education to the standards of developed countries with a tradition in educating learners with unique abilities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The international economical integration approached various national economics that produced a strong interdependency. The elimination of the customs and monetary barriers led to the apparition of macrospaces, as is the EURO ZONE, for instances. This paper presents the advantages of monetary integration and the path that Romania must employ in order to achieve economic monetary integration. In regard to economic efficiency, it is estimated that the simple elimination of uncertainly over the evolution of foreign currency exchange rates and respectively of the costs of converting one currency into another will insure yearly savings of 15 million euro. A country within the European Economic and Monetary Union that is confronted with sudden changes or other specific problems, bound to decrease the expanding of its activities and consequently its income, will no longer take action by resorting to known strategies, such as interest or exchange rates. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article analyzes the impact of socio-cultural integration on migrants' intention to return to their country of origin. It distinguishes between the potential effects of inter-ethnic relations, language proficiency and perception of discrimination as components of integration. It uses individual-level data collected through an original survey among Romanian migrants in January 2018. It aims to test the effects of socio-cultural integration against those of alternative explanations provided in the literature. The findings indicate that the perception of discrimination, assessment of public institutions' performance and belonging feelings are important predictors for return intentions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Romania shares much of its borders with non-EU countries. As a consequence, one of its main future missions should be to be an active player in the process of continual enlargement of the European Union both to the east and to the south. This will allow Romania to change its peripheral EU status into a central state within the Union. In order to be economically successful, Romania must be able to extend its commercial operations to the east, west, north and south. To achieve this, it is important for all surrounding states to have good economic development, and trade barriers to be reduced or non-existent. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Acting as EU member, Romania participates in the legislative process at this level and recognizes the principles of direct, immediate and priority applicability of EU legislation in national legal framework. Even if specialized legal literature has presented consistently the principle of fiscal sovereignty of member states within the European Union, we note the need for tax harmonization and the progress that has already been made in this direction. Tax harmonization at EU level is the complex process of aligning the normative rules in taxes levied by the Member States in order to reduce (and, if possible, eliminate) the negative effects the differences between Member States tax systems are generating on the common market. The most effective instrument for implementing tax harmonization is, in our view, achieving a Fiscal Union among the Member States. Inside the EU, the level of tax harmonization is far outweighed by the monetary harmonization, despite the fact that fiscal policy and monetary policy are linked. This lack of coordination was even more evident throughout the global financial crisis that appeared globally. In this framework, the EU Member States have negotiated and signed the Fiscal Treaty, a legal tool that provides mandatory measures on the supervision and control towards financial and fiscal stability. The effects of this piece of regulation are present, but they are not sufficient to insure the macro-economic stability of the European Union. In our opinion, the solution could be to regulate a single European tax, but the subject is currently only a research hypothesis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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