CROSS-BORDER CO-OPERATION EUROREGIONS IN THE ROMANIAN DANUBE BORDER-ZONE

Since several transversal issues have been cropping up, the need was felt for a unitary system to tackle them. So, the building of some cross-border co-operation structures both at local level (cross-border zones) an...

EVALUATION DE LA QUALITÉ PHYSIQUE DE LA RIVIÈRE COŞUŞTEA (BASSIN DE JIU) PAR LA MÉTHODE TÉLÉOS

The assessment of the rivers’ physical quality is one of the Water Framework Directive (WFD CE/ 60/2000) requirements and, as a result, there have been a number of methods developed by member-states that are tested and c...

PROMOTING NAUTICAL TOURISM IN ROMANIA

IS THE ROMANIAN DANUBE VALLEY A COHESIVE REGION? A GEOGRAPHICAL APPROACH

The Romanian sector of the Danube Valley covers a large area in which the life of resident communities is shaped by the River (1,075 km long). At present, 266 local administrative units (LAU) in the Romanian Danube Valle...

THE EUROPEAN UNION BETWEEN INTEGRATION AND FRAGMENTATION. A POSSIBLE EVOLUTION SCENARIO

Current European integration, begun after the Second World War, was based on ideas of reconciliation and tolerance among the nations of the Continent, grounded on common cultural and economic values. However, after 1997,...