Disentangling the political from the economic causes of the Leu depreciation is not a trivial task and is subject to some degree of uncertainty. Our results clarify the ongoing political debate on whether the external environment - the effects of the economic crisis in the region - are to be blamed for the depreciation of the Leu or whether the main cause is the internal political turmoil generated by the impeachment of the President.
European Policy Center has published a policy brief about the current situation in Romania. The brief is authored by Corina Stratulat, EPC analyst, and Paul Ivan, CRPE affiliated expert.
Four years after Kosovo declared its independence, the five EU member states that do not recognise it risk being cornered into a defensive situation in the EU, despite their numerous concessions, and left with the threat of veto as their trump card on Kosovo issues. Thanks to the agreement between Belgrade – Pristina on denomination, the five countries now have the opportunity to rethink their objectives and strategy, and to play out their non-recognition in a new way, which allows them to be not just constructive, but proactive and strategic.
The Romanian Centre for European Policies launched the volume “The EU Approach to Justice Reform in Southeastern and Eastern Europe” during a public hearing organized at the European Parliament with the contribution of MEPs Monica Macovei (Romania), Mariya Nedelcheva (Bulgaria) and Tadeusz Zwiefka (Polonia).
Romania is the number one violator of the right to the protection of property among the 47 nations of the Council of Europe, with over 255 violations of the European Convention on Human Rights since 2005. In October 2010, the European Court of Human Rights exhausted its patience and filed its first pilot judgment against Romania.
CRPE resumes the conclusions of the previously published analysis where we laid out the deficiencies of the mechanism of coordination of the European affairs in Romania. The decision-centers established in January 2008 (political level, high officials’ level and civil servants’ level) are not operational in practice.
The report „The Future EU Budget. What changes, what stays and the implications for Romania” analyzes the European Commission’s proposal on the 2014-2020 Multiannual Financial Framework.
Why do some European capitals get scared when it comes to the Romanian policy of regaining citizenship? How did we get to the current policy and how have the Romanian citizenship laws evolved since 1990? Does the attempt to repair historic injustice by citizenship policy have a justification at the EU level? Have other European countries done this before?
In 2010 CRPE, together with the Friedrich Ebert Romania Foundation (FES) evaluated the capacity of the Romanian Parliament to participate in debates regarding European policies. Following the interest and the recommendations received from the members of the Romanian Parliament and the Department for European Affairs, CRPE and FES organized on April 12, 2011 the first CRPE Forum on European affairs, which enjoyed the presence of the most important actors involved in the process of coordinating European affairs.
In 2010 the Romanian Center for European Policies (CRPE) together with the Friedrich Ebert Foundation Romania (FES) assessed in a project the Romanian Parliament's ability to engage in debates on European policies. The Final Report "Romania enters the EU Parliament. The legislative’s capacity to be an active European player”, launched in December 2010 assessed the institutional structures, procedures, internal resources of the Parliament, but also the relationship with government institutions and other institutions involved in the coordination of European affairs.
