The Bologna process and its perspectives

At the end of the first decade of this new millennium, we have reached the deadline set for the Bologna process. It is therefore an appropriate moment to look back to see where we have progressed and where we have fallen short of our aspirations. The Bologna Process was a major reform created with the claimed goal of providing responses to issues such as the public responsibility for higher education and research, higher education governance, the social dimension of higher education and research, and the values and roles of higher education and research in modern, globalized, and increasingly complex societies with the most demanding qualification needs

Transforming Europe: EU’s gender policy

The essay is a rather descriptive one, focused upon EU’s gender policy, and especially upon the European Commission’s Strategy for equality between men and women (2010-2015). The goals of European Commission are rather optimistic and they focus on the economic challenges and growth. It will be interesting to have a future research on the implementation of the Strategy at the member states level, to see if the Commission’s goals would be achieved

The concepts of food security and the right to safe food from the international and European perspective

Food security and the right to safe food are two concepts largely exploited in the international and European discourse and also two juridical realities that have become a matter of ever increasing international and regional concern. In analysing both the conceptualization and the normative settlement of food security and the right to safe food in the United Nations Organization and European Union, this paper suggests that improvements and progresses should be achieved in order to enhance a proactive cooperation between national and international institutions in this particular area