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During the decades following 1989, characterized by multiple economic and social convulsions, Romania faced a profound transformation of its demographic structures, with a natural population deficit and a negative migratory balance rate. Although our health care system has been in a perpetual state of reform since then, few attempts materialized in long-term policies, patient or prevention-oriented. The steady degradation of the physical and mental health of the population has been caused by perpetual social insec...

Preferential trade agreements are not a new item in the history of global trade policy, but there has been a marked proliferation of them since the beginning of the 21st century. It is believed that they became a way to overcome the lack of progress in multilateral trade negotiations carried out within the World Trade Organization. However, among various global powers, the European Union was a latecomer to the so called "new wave" of regionalization. The goal of the paper is to point out main reasons and factors a...

The research study offers an analysis of the public opinion of citizens of the Slovak Republic focused on the results of the referendum vote in the United Kingdom in 2016, in which the British voters decided to leave their country of the European Union. The study also presents prevailing opinions, attitudes, preferences and values of the Slovak people on the possible impacts of Brexitis in Great Britain on Slovaks or on the future of the European Union. We used the questionnaire method in the research. The survey ...

Confidence-building is one of the main conditions of Russia-EU relations normalization. For better understanding of the ways of confidence strengthening: the concept of confidence in the context of national and foreign policy of the states; legal basis of strategic partnership between Russia and EU (the EU-Russia Partnership and Cooperation Agreement of 1994); the contemporary state of Russia-EU relations; the reasons of Russia-EU relations deterioration; the available doubts of a possibility of strategic partners...

The cultural access, participation to the cultural activities and the overall presence in the cultural markets of the European consumers have registered a decline somewhat less than expected, at least in connection to the current level of development of the European Union countries. This state of the European cultural market is directly determined by the consumers’ behavior related to the cultural products, services and activities as well as by the overall context in which providers of cultural output conduct thei...

The former socialist countries that joined the European Union have since managed to reduce the distance of wealth separating them from the richest countries of this bloc, albeit at varying degrees and pace. In the last few years, the so-called middle income trap, which may pose a threat to EU-member post-socialist countries, is attracting more and more attention. Although this concept has many definitions, their common thread is the exhaustion by states falling into such a trap of current simple development factor...