CRPE

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.

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.

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.