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The article discusses civic engagement in Romanian constitutionalism. First, I briefly discuss theoretical dimensions of the relation between citizens and constitutional change. Second, the Romanian Constitution will be analyzed in terms of formal constitutional instruments of civic participation. Third, civic engagement in constitution-making and constitutional reform since 1991 will be studied. I will conclude that in the early years of Romanian democratic constitutionalism, citizens' formal possibilities and actual capacities for engagement in constitutional politics have been severely limited. Civic participation has, however, become more promising and prominent in the 2003 and 2013 reform processes. The Romanian dual experience with the Forum Constituţional ought to be studied as part of a larger wave of participatory constitutional reform in Europe, which also helps to bring out a more general problem of such reform, ie, the lack of formal institutionalization of civic participation.

The forest is a basic component of the environment, without which human life and not only cannot be conceived, fulfilling the role of its improvement and preservation. The forest is designed to provide a rich range of products with an undisputed economic value to the human. It is not only the woody mass and the other products of the forest, including: game, fish, berries, edible mushrooms, herbs, resin, tanning substances, etc. National forestry Director – Romsilva is a legal person, headquartered in the municipality of Bucharest and operates on economic management and financial autonomy, exercising also public service tasks, with specific forestry and horse Authority accordance with the provisions of the organization and functioning regulation – approved by Government decision. The specific legal basis under which the National Forestry Director-Romsilva operates and is organized, are Law No. 46/2008 (Silvic code) and HG No. 229/2009 on reorganization of the National Forest Registry – Romsilva. National Forestry Director – Romsilva represents a strategic unit at national level through the range of activities it carries out, thanks to its role in the national economy. During the period analyzed (2015-2017) It is noted that the component indicators of the turnover in the natural expression recorded differentiated developments: ascending – The volume of the recovered woody mass and the amount of forest seeds ; Fluctuating – the quantities of berries and truffles and other edible mushrooms, respectively; Descending – Number of forestry and ornamental puffs in forestry nursery.

The EU competition depends on the competition from each region and town of the EU. The territorial cohesion became in these conditions (beside the economical and social cohesion) an important objective of the EU. Its purpose is to make stronger the role of the regions, towns and rural environment at European level and to gradually eliminate the territorial differences. For the period 2007 – 2013 the territorial dimension of the cohesion policy implies: all the community areas must have the possibility to contribute to the European development; for a balanced development it is necessary to ensure both the development of the urban areas and the development of the rural areas. This study analyzes the territorial cooperation programs with their general aspects, with their common points and analyzes in detail the programs where our country is a component. Cohesion policy U.E. support balanced and sustainable development of the EU, at its regions and cross-border cooperation. Our country is part of the few border cooperation programs.

Romanian Germans, mainly from the Banat and Transylvania, have occupied a place at the very heart of major events in Europe in the twentieth century yet their history is largely unknown. This east-central European minority negotiated their standing in a difficult new European order after 1918, changing from uneasy supporters of Romania, to zealous Nazis, tepid Communists, and conciliatory Europeans. Migrating Memories is the first comprehensive study in English of Romanian Germans and follows their stories as they move across borders and between regimes, revealing a very European experience of migration, minorities, and memories in modern Europe. After 1945, Romanian Germans struggled to make sense of their lives during the Cold War at a time when the community began to fracture and fragment. The Revolutions of 1989 seemed to mark the end of the German community in Romania, but instead Romanian Germans repositioned themselves as transnational European bridge-builders, staking out new claims in a fast-changing world

The general goal of this paper is to study senior Romanian citizens' EU attitudes after ten years of European membership, with a special focus on the unsolved tension between the instrumental and symbolic perspectives. By looking at the present context, the purpose of this research is to assess the challenges and transformations of the EU-related opinions and support of traditional euro-enthusiastic citizens in times of vulnerability and struggling economies. Equally, the paper favours a future-oriented view, and puts under scrutiny people's expectations and evaluations of the future developments of the EU and their consequences at personal, national and supra-national level.

Nonprofits face increasing pressure to compete in the market, while they must maintain their civic commitment. Focusing on the arts and cultural sector, this study conducts the first large-scale, comprehensive empirical measurement of nonprofits' engagement in various roles. The article uses a previously validated 18-item role index to categorize nonprofits as primarily engaged in either civic or market functions, so that a subsequent regression analysis can identify the common characteristics of civically active nonprofit arts service organizations. The data come from (a) qualitative interviews with leaders of arts nonprofits, (b) a random national sample of more than 900 arts nonprofits, and (c) Internal Revenue Service (IRS) tax returns of the sample nonprofits. The findings suggest that civically active arts nonprofits have diverse networks, recognize civic engagement as the industry norm, and are consciously aware of their nonprofit status. The results suggest how nonprofits can balance their equally important market- and civic-oriented functions.

Roma individuals are struggling to access the formal labour market in Romania. Previous research occupied with this issue has traditionally been dominated by quantitative studies of socio-economic indicators that cling to the characteristics of the ethnic group. The study presented here, however, uses institutional ethnography as a method of social inquiry to demonstrate that this issue needs to be studied from a bottom-up perspective. The article illustrates that there are factors connected to how the system of occupational integration operates that must be taken into consideration in
order to explain the difficulties Roma individuals face when trying to enter the labour market in Romania. We argue that these structural barriers create and reinforce processes of minoritising that increase marginalization and discrimination
and thereby hinder work inclusion for Roma individuals. (author's abstract)

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Drawing on ethnographic and anthropological research on the Romanian communities in Eastern Serbia, this article seeks to contribute to the global scholarship on diaspora and migration. It reveals interesting differences between the well defined and intensely studied notion of "diaspora" on the one hand, and the understudied, but useful concept of "near diaspora" on the other. First, the presence of Romanians in Eastern Serbia is looked at from a gender perspective, in the wider context of feminization of international migration. Second, the paper argues that the Romanian women in Eastern Serbia adopt the strategy of living in the "social fog", thus becoming what can be termed "foggy diaspora".