Abstract The Romanian energy market suffers from structural flaws, which pre-date the beginning of liberalization. Although the restructuring process by breaking-up vertical monopolies (damaging for competition and for competitiveness at the same time) started off relatively early – 1998 for electricity, 2000 for gas, uncompetitive commercial practices and damaging administrative decisions kept persisting. A brief...
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Abstract This article looks at the post-accession difficulties of new member states to fulfill the demands of EU membership and considers the degree of Europeanization in the area of competition policy. The article takes a comparative approach and looks at seven of the new Central and Eastern European member states. It analyzes the capacity of...
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ABSTRACT The study of EU foreign policy has devoted over the last years great emphasis to the conceptualization of the role of the Union as an international actor. This paper critically analyzes two overarching narratives – realist and interpretive – about the role of the Union as an international actor employing insights from critical theory....
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ABSTRACT The ambition of the study is to provide a description of the forms and functions of clientelism, thus looking at the differences between “rural” forms of clientelism that still rely on familiar brokerage, and their implications in terms of the power status of local bosses, and the “urban” forms of transactional exchanges, that are...
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ABSTRACT: Despite the fact that party dissolutions and degenerative forms of factionalism, no major splits or internal divides shaded the image of the main ethnic based party: the Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania (DAHR). Similarly to other post communist countries, the minority representation in Romania constitutes an electoral success story. In a general framework...
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