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Romania: Boosting productivity and human capital will foster economic growth
Accelerating the pace of structural reform, investing EU funds effectively while ensuring good fiscal management will help strengthen the recovery and future growth, which...
Reforms Key to Romania’s Resilient Recovery
Over the past decade, Romania has achieved a remarkable track record of high economic growth, sustained poverty reduction, and rising household incomes. An EU...
American support for democratization in Southeast Europe: The case of Romania
With the dramatic collapse of communism in Southeast and Eastern Europe, the newly democratically elected governments had to face the harsh reality of being...
Eastern Balkans Economic update: Romania’s and North Macedonia’s new data for 2020
When governments around the world started reacting to the pandemic, they induced a vast and unpredictable crisis. The ensuing recession struck in decidedly variegated...
Great Powers Competition in Moldova
Moldova is the forgotten epicenter of tensions between the West and Russia, located between Romania and Ukraine, with no direct access to the sea...
“Balkan Stream”: Romania instead of Bulgaria?
With the export leg of the Turkish Stream
(TurkStream) gas pipeline, designed to bring Russian natural gas along the
Balkan route further to Europe, slated to...
How Romania’s battles over corruption hamstrung economic progress
When
Romania took over the rotating presidency of the Council of the European Union
in January, news coverage in Western Europe mostly focused on the tensions...
Poland and the Success of its “Intermarium” Project
The
Intermarium Project refers to a geopolitical concept developed by the 20th
century Polish leader Jozef Pilsudski, involving the region from the Baltic to
the Black seas....
On the Road to “Strategic Depth” in the Black Sea Region
Authors: Ruslan Mamedov and Olga Pylova*
For many years, the Black Sea has been a platform for the military
exercises of Black Sea region countries...
Romania Militarizing the Black Sea Region
Romania’s policy in the Black Sea region is aimed at creating strategic prerequisites for Bucharest to achieve long-term regional leadership.
Russia is the only Black...