Natalia Cuglesan

Babeş-Bolyai University | UBB · Studii Internationale si Istorie Contemporana

The post-accession evolution of the new Member States to the European Union benefits from limited attention in the EU studies literature. More scholarly works are needed to map the performance of Romania and Bulgaria. Therefore, this paper investigates Romania's performance during the six-month Council Presidency to the European Union in the first...

The positive rates of post-accession compliance with EU legislation exhibited by the member states of the 2004 and 2007 accession waves raise the question of the factors that have influenced this unexpected relatively positive record compared to the old member states. In this context, this chapter aims to examine Romania’s post-accession compliance...

This volume addresses the Europeanization of the environmental policy in Romania after the accession to the European Union. As underlined by the editors of this volume in their introductory piece, the question of EU member states' performance in the field of environmental policy is highly relevant, mostly as the EU has built to a great extent in th...

The accession of Romania and Bulgaria to the European Union (EU) is portrayed as one of the most challenging enlargement waves in the history of the EU Integration Process. A member of the EU since 2007, Romania had to overcome significant obstacles to qualify for EU membership. Not fully prepared for EU accession, Romania required post-accession m...

The European Union and the US are currently negotiating the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), with potentially enormous economic gains for both partners. Experts from the European Union and the US explore not only the groundwork laid for TTIP under the "New Transatlanticism," but also the key variables - economic, cultural, ins...

Romania has transposed the community legislation on environmental protection and has engaged to implement it according to schedule within the negotiation process. The paper seeks to present the impact of Romania's accession to the European Union on the local authorities (county Councils and local Councils) which have the tasks to implement the Envi...

The paper seeks to present several of the objectives of sustainable development in the Hunedoara county. The main issues of sustainable development concept are focused on efficient use of the human and economical resources, and also on environmental protection. The Hunedoara county confronts with many heavy problems such as rehabilitation of wastew...