Convergence of the National Public Administration Systems within the European Union in the Context of the European Model Emergence

The long running historyfor over half a century of the European Union was marked initially by the need to approach the memberstates’ administrations, with a view to getting them more compatible, as a prerequisite of the EU’s functioning, at the foreseen political-legal and economic parameters, and then the respective tendency started to intensify progressivelyrelative to the more and more ambitious goals and objectives of the European Union establishment. Today we witness an increased dynamics of such a process which seems to integrate even the specificities derived from the sovereignty elements, considered not long ago as sacred, at the states level, a processuality whosefinality consists in the continuous consolidation of the European administrative area, as an essential corollary to the effective inter-community mechanisms development, equally as an effect of the states’integration but also a condition for the European project success. In such a context, the present approach proposes to analyse and identify the degree of cohesion and of similarity between the EU states administrations, which revolve around the emergence of the common characteristics, considered as authentic values of the administrative area, susceptible to be accepted altogether as bases for the Europeanadministration model, whose outline tends to become more visible

THE CONSOLIDATION OF THE CULTURAL SECTOR: GOOD PRACTICES IN THE EUROPEAN LEGAL CONTEXT

The cultural sector is currently understood as a social cohesion vector and the Eurostat statistics show that it triggers the prosperity of the connected activity sectors, in the period 2006-2013, this sectors’ contribution experiencing an increase of almost 27% in the EU GDP. From this perspective, the paper at hand performs a comparative analysis focused on the financing mechanisms of the cultural sector and on their impact, by orientating the thorough research towards the statute of artists in the selected countries. For the comparative analysis, the paper considered a number of EU member states, grouped on geographical spaces (North, West, South-East and Center). The analysis performed within the paper emphasizes the fact that the great majority of these states, understanding the socio-economic benefits conferred by a developed cultural context (national and European), are properly committed, both to financing the cultural sector and to providing a comprehensive statute of the artist, numerous common points having been identified in this sense, as well as significant differences between these states

Autonomia locală și protecția juridică a drepturilor minorităților naționale în România - Explicații și delimitări conceptuale

The issue regarding the extent, the substance, respectively the nature of the national minorities’ rights on the political-constitutional level of the states, has been representing, on the one hand, a complex and broad topic in the light of the international regulations in the field and, on the other hand, a controversial and sensitive topic at national level, in the light of the necessity to protect the fundamental values of the states. One of the current approaches referring to the manifestation of the national minorities’ rights highlights the attempt to often absorb in the substance of those rights, some other rights which exceed the preoccupations of these groups to preserve their ethnical identity, such as the local autonomy. The author undertakes the task to clarify in this regard the nature and limits of this principle, which lays the foundation of the administrative organization of the Romanian territorial communities. The approach has as a final goal the explanation and conceptual disjunction of local autonomy, as an administrative phenomenon, separately from the concept outlined in the political-ethnical sphere, and thus eliminating the possibility of producing any confusion. The analysis is performed in total compliance with the national legal order.</p

Simplification of the National Legislation – a Prequosite for the Improvement of the Legislative Regulatory Framework in Romania

<p>In the context of an unprecedent increased number of legislative normative acts adopted at state level, and meant mainly to reflect the complex and multiple transformations that occur in the social relations, in the attempt to correlate the results of the law creation process with the Romanian realities, finding out proper solutions able to contribute to the legislative regulatory framework improvement in Romania represents an urgent need. The legislative simplification represents one of the legal existing solutions and concurrently an efficient instrument to stop the regulation excess by dwindling the number of the legislative acts and by increasing correlatively their quality, in the ample context of assuring the coherence, unity and flexibility of the entire national legislation framework. Under these circumstances, the author undertakes the task to tackle mainly the simplification legislation activity, from the point of view of its prerequisites, of the applicable legal system, of the specific principles and objectives and respectively of the concrete legal instruments meant to facilitate it at applicative level. It can justify in this manner the need to strengthen the role of simplifying mechanisms, insisting to the same extent on the involvement and contribution of the public administration to this process.</p

Convergence of the National Public Administration Systems within the European Union in the Context of the European Model Emergence

The long running history for over half a century of the European Union was marked initially by the need to approach the member states’ administrations, with a view to getting them more compatible, as a prerequisite of the EU’s functioning, at the foreseen political-legal and economic parameters, and then the respective tendency started to intensify progressively relative to the more and more ambitious goals and objectives of the European Union establishment. Today we witness an increased dynamics of such a process which seems to integrate even the specificities derived from the sovereignty elements, considered not long ago as sacred, at the states level, a processuality whose finality consists in the continuous consolidation of the European administrative area, as an essential corollary to the effective inter-community mechanisms development, equally as an effect of the states’ integration but also a condition for the European project success. In such a context, the present approach proposes to analyse and identify the degree of cohesion and of similarity between the EU states administrations, which revolve around the emergence of the common characteristics, considered as authentic values of the administrative area, susceptible to be accepted altogether as bases for the European administration model, whose outline tends to become more visible

Legal and Practical Aspects of the Associations between the City of Bucharest and the Large Territorial Collectivities – Actuality and Perspective

In the current political and economic context, highly sensitive, determined and influenced by the financial crisis which spreads all part of globalization coordinates, the state administrations themselves are put in a position to find new and effective solutions, in order to satisfy a wide range of interests. One of the possible ways reserved to administrative systems, with priority to those attached to the European continental area values, is the collaborative administration, based on strengthening cooperation and partnership between the public authorities which are animated by common interests both in national and foreign, and in internal and international collaboration. From this point of view, the current scientific approach aims to reflect on the reality of institutional and partnership relations that the Municipality of Bucharest - capital of Romania - conducts in its relations with other European cities and large municipalities, such as the Municipality of Rome (Italy). The purpose of these relations regard multiple activities such as local services, high quality serving of the members of the local community, according to the principle and essential value of European Administrative Space - i.e. local autonomy

FINANCING CULTURE INSTITUTIONS IN EUROPEAN CONTEXT

The paper, on the coordinates of the analysis of the problematic of financing culture institutions within the European Union member states, performs a comparative analysis focused on the financing mechanism available to the cultural sector, created both at the level of the public, and of the private sector. For the comparative analysis, the paper selected several EU member states, grouped on four geographical areas (North, South, East and Center). The analysis performed in the paper emphasized that most EU member states make significant efforts to finance the cultural sector, but the effects of the economic crisis have had a negative impact on this financing, causing, from this perspective, a gap between the states in the north and center of the EU, on the one hand, and the states in the south and east of the EU, on the other hand and outlining a cultural Europe with two peripheries