Tag Archives: Integrare europeană
Economic Challenges in the Context of Convergence
The economic crisis showed us that pro-cyclical policies, which Romania was also seduced by, make the recovery more painful. This is why it is important to discuss openly if and why is it worth creating big deficits exactly when the economic situation is good, instead of preserving fiscal space for “hard times”, when the economic expansion will be exhausted.
Euro is Dead, Long Live the Euro! On the Euro-economic Salvation of the EU
The crisis has revealed the vicious circle that the euro would have faced anyway, sometimes in the future. The reasons why some are condemning the euro are, in fact, the reasons why it should be saved. But saving the euro at all costs – “whatever it takes”, in the terms of Mario Draghi – would actually mean the failure of the common currency. If the euro won’t succeed in imposing the
Regional Gaps in a European Context: Is Romania Getting Closer to the Euro?
More and more arguments are being introduced, either congruently or interchangeably, into the list of criteria for the adoption of the common currency. Sometimes, preconceived positions make their way through the multitude of invoked counter-arguments. Nominal convergence criteria have been continuously supplemented, sometimes
