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Following the EU membership, Romania has focused on infrastructure that was needed to access the funds, as if it forgot about most of the agricultural working that are completely cut out from the market mechanisms. The European funds are instruments of the market mechanism used for the development and demand of a modern agricultural market, which is able to satisfy the needs of a European circuit of agricultural products, within a modern rural development. Even if the community fund flow could partially solve the financial problem, the main focus of the Romanian agriculture is to define the concept of organizing and making agriculture work. Thus, it would be a mistake to consider the possibility of accessing community funds as a main element to profit from the EU accession, because this will contribute to the solving some due issues of the rural environment development. The present stage, which is called post-accession, imposes a change of thought and method in the process of conceiving the agricultural policy. We need to jump from the careful and shy survival policy to the brave and bold policy of conquering foreign markets.

The oil market can not be defined as a single market and the outcomes in terms of pricing can not be viewed through the prism of supply-demand. Oil resources still play a decisive role in determining energy resources, changing this ratio being determined mainly by the volume of investments, changes in investor's sentiment and in policy of emerging countries, determinants of energy demand. 20 years ago, experts were warning that by the end of the third millennium production will start to fall and the price will reach 20-90 USD / barrel, and now at the beginning of the third millennium, it seems that the experts were wrong once again because the production still does not give signs of decline. Intensifying the exploitation of shale oil gives new dimensions to oil production, with effects on prices, creating structural changes and changes in economic and geopolitical power poles worldwide. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Many European countries have used the investment model of Public Private Partnership (PPP, P3 or P3) to implement large-scale infrastructure projects and to accelerate development, but Romania has little experience with such type of projects, although there is a strong economic reason for implementing infrastructure investments, because it can easily be seen the need for investments in this field. This paper is determining the literature review on PPPs, how the regulations of the member states of the European Union is implemented by dedicated PPP units at the national level and, finally, presents the techniques and processes of the contract management. Financing Public Private Partnerships cannot ignore the international economic and financial context. As it could be seen in this paper, the data on PPP market shows that the crisis had a negative impact on their development and implementation at the level of the EU Member States. EU has been promoting PPPs as an important instrument of accomplishing the goals of Europe 2020 strategy. In Romania, the interest in PPPs must be encouraged and the knowledge in this field could increase the administrative capacity of the country. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]