Romania in the Banking Union: Why Local Supervision of Cross-Border Banking is not Enough
by Oana-Maria Georgescu The Banking Union has been widely debated as the panacea for breaking the vicious link between…
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EU’s budget: Veto’s threat on the table – What is to lose and what is to gain for Romania on MFF
Romanian Center for European Policies (RCEP) has published a detailed analysis of the possibilities and expectations Romania has from the results of the current negotiations on the future multiannual financial framework - EU’s budget (2014-2020).
The impact of the political crisis on the national currency
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.
Romania’s democracy in reverse gear – en garde, EU!
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.
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.
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.
The Future EU Budget – implications for Romania
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.
Data protection: evaluation of Moldova`s policies
Between February-June 2011, Bogdan Manolea, CRPE affiliated expert (more details about Bogdan here) analyzed the situation of personal data protection in Moldova, and made recommendations to improve their protection in the context of visa regime liberalization with the EU.
Consolidating small and medium farms
On November 18, 2010, the European Commission published "The Common Agricultural Policy in the perspective of 2020 ", the result of extensive public debate during 2010 that began at the invitation of Romanian Commissioner Dacian Ciolos. CRPE has organized on May 4, 2011, with the support of EurActiv and Infoeuropa, a public debate on this issue with key stakeholders, publicly proposing a simplified model of the scheme, which small farmers can have access to without filling in the annual subsidy applications and complex forms.
Romania’s Schengen Accession Process: lesson learned, failed exam
Policy Memo No.20; January 2011 Author: Ciprian Ciucu The monitoring aimed at recoding the compliance with the official engagements undertaken…