The Politics of Electoral Reforms in Post-Communist Countries: The 6 March 2005 Parliamentary elections in the Republic of Moldova

The article deals with the March 6th 2005 parliamentary election in the Republic of Moldova. It mentions the changes that occurred in the electoral system after the 1991 declaration of independence of the country. The article cites electoral legislation, describes the running of the electoral process and analyses the election results of the 2006 process. It also contains information about the implication of international bodies in the Moldavian elections

La protection du droit à l'éducation des enfants roms en Europe centrale et orientale

Entre 2007 et 2013, la Cour européenne des droits de l’homme a prononcé des arrêts portant sur la ségrégation discriminatoire des écoliers d’ethnie rom dans des pays d'Europe centrale et orientale – République tchèque, Croatie, Hongrie. Cette jurisprudence permet de faire un point sur l'efficacité des politiques d'intégration de ces pays

L'adhésion à l'UE, un objectif partagé ou partageant la société moldave?

L'histoire récente de la Moldavie atteste des quelques progrès notables de ce pays en termes de démocratisation, condition préalable à toute intégration européenne. Cependant, les résultats électoraux des scrutins organisés depuis la déclaration d'indépendance, en août 1991, n'expriment pas de manière continue une volonté des citoyens moldaves d'intégrer leur pays à l'Europe. En effet, les partis élus n'ont pas toujours été, loin s'en faut, ceux qui promouvaient une telle intégration

Bilan de la transition démocratique en Moldavie - 1991-2011

Depuis une vingtaine d'années la République de Moldavie indépendante mène des efforts pour consolider son régime démocratique. Même si sa démocratisation a pris un essor assez rapide, avec la mise en place d'un nouveau réseau d'institutions constitutionnelles, inspirées du modèle occidental, les leaders moldaves n'ont su soutenir ce processus de démocratisation constamment. Le passé soviétique se lit encore aisément surtout dans le comportement des leaders politiques formés durant l'époque précédente. Leur incapacité de dépasser la condition de dirigeant absolu, à prérogative de prendre des décisions incontestables, vicie beaucoup leur image de dirigeants démocratisés

How Structural Compensation Facilitates Health Care for the Homeless. A Comparative View on Four European Union Member States

There is robust evidence that homelessness and the associated life conditions of a homeless person may cause and exacerbate a wide range of health problems, while healthcare for the homeless is simultaneously limited in accessibility, availability, and appropriateness. This article investigates legal frameworks of health care provision, existing knowledge on numbers of homeless to be considered, and current means of health care provision for four EU countries with different economic and public health background: Austria, Greece, Poland, and Romania. National experts investigated the respective regulations and practices in place with desk research. The results show differences in national frameworks of inclusion into health care provision and knowledge on the number of people experiencing homelessness, but high similarity when it comes to main actors of actual health care provision for homeless populations. In all included countries, despite their differences in economic investments and universality of access to public health systems, it is mainly NGOs providing health care to those experiencing homelessness. This phenomenon fits into conceptual frameworks developed around service provision for vulnerable population groups, wherein it has been described as “structural compensation,” meaning that NGOs compensate a structural inappropriateness that can be observed within public health systems

Research and Science Today No. 1(17)/2019

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