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Newsletter no. 13 - January 2010 pdf

17 million euro for 17% of the EU population
Every year, starting with 1983 the Community institutions pointed their attention towards a specific theme, the last five years being focused on the social agenda of the European Union... For more details please see the first page of the publication.

INTERVIEW

DRAGOŞ PÎSLARU - General Manager, GEA Strategy & Consulting
I doubt that anyone is expecting a miraculous transformation of the European area in just a decade
The working document regarding the future “EU 2020” Strategy talks about the passage to a “new, sustainable social market economy, a more intelligent and more ecological economy”. What do you think “a social market economy” means for the European citizens?
The new strategic document proposed for consultation contains an abundance of adjectives describing the proposed economic development. Along those already mentioned in the question, there are also aspirations to reach a “competitive”, “connected” or “inclusive” economy...
For the full text of the interview please see the pdf file.

IN FOCUS

EIR Agenda: March 2010
EIR Course: Acquiring competences for translating and revising legal texts - 3 March
EIR Conference: series: Romania - France: Together in Europe - 3 March
EIR Conference on the launch of a new series of studies - SPOS 2009 - 17 March

A new year with new training programmes at EIR
The beginning of 2010 brought changes in the training offer of the European Institute of Romania. In January the first session of the certified training programme on Project management took place. This programme represents the continuation of the cooperation started at the end of last year with the Association for the Adult Professional Training (AAPT)... For more details please see page 3.

ANALYSIS/OPINION

The genuine EU Avatar – gate strategy towards the 22nd century
The consultation process on “some suggested broad policy considerations” for the successor to the current Lisbon Strategy is over. The EU 2020 Strategy appears as a two-term programme with a short-sighted vision. Remedies to cure current condition are not there... For the full text of the article please see page 4.

BOOK REVIEW

Ioana Vintilă-Rădulescu, Dicţionar normativ al limbii române (DIN). Ortografic, ortoepic, morfologic şi practic [Normative Dictionary of the Romanian Language. Orthographic, orthoepic, morphologic and practical], Corint Publishing House, Bucharest, 2009, 895 p.
Why must we use the hyphen when writing in Romanian acquis-ul, bleu-ul, story-ul, but not for clickul, itemul, trendul, weekendul? Let us open the new dictionary at letter A, insert Articolul hotărât [The Definite Article] and we will find the justification for the rule... For more details please see page 5.

PROMO

Retrospective view 2009 – Translation and revision of the ECHR case-law
For the Translation Coordination Unit, in so far as the translation and revision of the judgements of the European Court of Human Rights is concerned, the year 2009 has been a fruitful one... For more details please see page 6.

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