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).
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.
In 2007 Romania identified the Republic of Moldova as priority country for redirecting its development funds.Once thawed in the political relations between the two countries, Romania has decided to give Moldova for the next four years (starting 2010) a grant of 100 million euro.
In November 2010, European Commissioner Dacian Cioloş released "the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) towards 2020" – a document outlining the broad strokes of the reform of the European agricultural policy. The communication will be followed in 2011 by a legislative proposal by the Commission. Thus, we are currently in the stage between general principles and concrete measures.
This Policy Brief summarizes the responses to a survey of experts who answered a total of 55 experts from Moldova - representatives of NGOs, journalists, policy makers, public officials and business representatives.
In this report we finalize the independent monitoring of the responsible Romanian institutions for the technical operation regarding to accession. The report focuses on the progress or stagnation (if any) in last period of 2010, from September until today.
The global negotiations concerning the reduction of gas emissions (GES) require costly commitments and complicated alliances tactics and diplomatic orientations. Romania has to become a serious and credible actor in this field and it must base its strategy on a thorough knowledge of its internal status.
This report resembles a Russian matrioska which is addressed to more audiences. On one hand, it is about the agricultural policies and European policies, who are accustomed with the field. On the other hand, it is about journalists, politicians, trade unionists, students and the public at large, who need context information for understanding the dilemma raised by CAP in the context of Romania.
Sweden has taken the rotating Presidency of the Council of the European Union. The expectations of the Swedish Government are high, especially after the Czech Presidency, which was unanimously declared incoherent. Thus, the Swedish government boosted the stake choosing as a slogan "Taking on the challenges"/ Answering the challenges and announcing an ambitious agenda.
