Newsletter no. 15 - March 2010 pdf

Europe’s Agenda until 2020
The European Commission launched in March a strategy for overcoming the crisis and preparing the EU for the next ten years ... For more details please see the first page of the publication.

INTERVIEW

BOGDAN MĂNOIU - Minister, Head of the European Affairs Department
The ″Europe 2020″ Strategy – opportunities and challenges
The recently launched ″Europe 2020″ Strategy identifies a series of elements which are essential for ensuring an economic growth at EU and national level. Which are, in your opinion, the challenges that the European Union must cope with in its attempt to give a more important role to the local and regional authorities in the drawing up of these reform documents?
The new ″Europe 2020″ Strategy developed on the basis of the public consultation launched by the European Commission in November 2009, emphasises the importance of the regional actors’ involvement in the process of implementation and monitoring of the strategy ... For the full text of the interview please see the pdf file.

IN FOCUS

EIR Agenda: April - May 2010
EIR Course: The Legal system of the European Union - 26 - 27 April
EIR - Embassy of the Republic of Poland Conference: The Cohesion Policy from Lisbon Agenda to Europa 2020 Strategy: New Perspectives - 30 April
EIR Course: General training programme in European Affairs - 3 -7 May

The European Institute of Romania and ECHR
On 12 March 2010, the Collaboration Protocol between the European Institute of Romania, the Legal Science Society, the “Acad. Andrei Rădulescu” Legal Research Institute of the Romanian Academy – Centre for European Legal Studies and the Romanian Society of Community Law has been signed... For more details please see page 3.

EVENT

4 EIR events in March
The series of EIR events was opened in 2010 with four events in March, two of which were events from the series Romania – France: together in Europe and two book launches ... For the full text of the article please see page 3.

INTERVIEW

VALENTINA VASILE - Scientific Director of The Institute of National Economy – Romanian Academy, Coordinator of the SPOS 2009 study Improving vocational competencies among graduates and youths: a chance for the future
The investment in education is sustainable, yet it generates mainly propagation effects on medium and long - term
Which is the de facto situation of youths’ attendance in the education system in relation to the other EU Member States?
Last Eurostat data indicate a favourable development of youth participation to education. If we refer to school expectancy, Romania recorded an increase from an average of 13.9 years in 2000 to 15.9 years in 2007 ... For the full text of the interview please see page 5.

PROMO

Training at EIR
The Economic and Monetary Union (1 – 2 June 2010)
Project Manager (21 – 25 June 2010)
... For more details please see page 6.

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 *The texts published in this Newsletter express the authors’ opinion and do not represent the official position of the European Institute of Romania or of the editors.

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