21st of June 2012: 40 European NGOs urge the EU to advance Moldova to the 2nd phase of APVL
At the initiative of CRPE, The Visa-free Europe Coalition is calling upon the European Commission to propose progression of the Republic of Moldova…
Publications
Why isn’t association attractive for farmers?
It has become a truism that a fragmented agriculture cannot be efficient on today’s global market and that a solution for this structural problem can be found in the development of association in rural areas. Due to historical causes and not only, cooperation in agriculture has a bad reputation in Romania.
24th- 25th of May 2012: Romania-Ukraine Civic Forum – organized by CRPE and the Institute of Public Policy (Kiev)
The forum aims at enhancing bilateral relations between Romania and Ukraine by involving civil society. We set out to build expertise networks from…
Moldova scores 8,6 out of 10 in implementing the Visa Action Plan
This policy brief evaluates the progress made by Republic of Moldova in implementing the National Action Plan on Visa Liberalization. The agreed Action Plan has two phases and the CRPE – APE evaluation refers to the sub-actions comprised in the first phase. From the total of 163 sub-actions, the evaluation shows that Moldova has accomplished 76% and another 10% are almost accomplished. This means a total score of 86%.
Regaining agency: How to help Serbia and Kosovo move towards the EU?
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.
2012 – second `CRPE Annual Report` on Romania-Moldova Relations
The week in which the governments of the two countries meet in a common government reunion in Iasi, the Romanian Center for European Policies publishes its annual report on the relationship between Romania and the Republic of Moldova. Named „ From rebooting relations to accumulating arrears”, the CRPE report covers the most important aspects of cooperation between these two countries in 2011.
Romanian investments in R. of Moldova
Romania is Moldova’s most important partner for commercial trade and, for the first time in history, it overreached Russia in the volume of direct investments in Moldova. At least this is what the official statistics show, even though many Russian businessmen prefer to lead their businesses from more convenient tax systems like Cyprus and the Netherlands.
The EU Approach to Justice Reform in Southeastern and Eastern Europe
Editors: Cristian Ghinea, Laura Stefan CRPE launched in Brussels the book “The EU Approach to Justice Reform in Southeastern and Eastern…
The EU Approach to Justice Reform in Southeastern and Eastern Europe
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).
Property Restitution Reform – Nine Months Left to Solve a 21 Billion Euro Problem
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.