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One of the directions in order to study the changes that affected the university in postcomunist Romania is to analyze the relationship between politics and university. This analysis is situated on three levels: the university, the political elites and university and the university and the state. Our study aims to offer a profile of the members of the Romanian Parliament during the period 1990-2008 in terms of academic career. Following the Bourdieu's criteria on academic relevance our conclusion is that the presence of important members of the academic space in the Romanian Parliament explains on one hand the backwardness of the higher education system and on the other hand, the creation of the private universities after 1990.

The note briefly summarizes the contents of two collective books, on China and India respectively. As China and India have "continental" dimensions, they foster hopes, provoke fear, excite curiosity and encourage closer examination. The two books originate from a scientific research work promoted and coordinated by the Faculty of Political sciences of the University of Pavia, and review some outstanding features of both the political, social and economic systems. Adapted from the source document.

In this address delivered at the U of Jerusalem on 27 Nov 2008, the President of the Republic of Italy speaks of his own country & his host country as national states that have distinct national identities but that also share historical experiences of humiliation & suffering. On this day he comes as the representative of one of the founding countries of a united Europe to affirm the identity of the people of the Hebrew nation & their progress as a state. This university, he contends, has made an inestimable contribution to the state of Israel in opening its doors to dialogue with other cultures, as Italy has done in celebrating in Rome the Day of Remembrance of the Holocaust -- denouncing anti-Zionism & the travesties committed through anti-Semitism. He hopes that old bonds & new bonds, equally robust & vital, will serve to renew friendships not only between the Middle East & Europe, but in all regions of the world. Adapted from the source document.

After a brief account of the origin of the Kosovo crisis & of the attempts made by the international community to bring it to a solution, in the present work, the Author starts analyzing the stands taken by States in relation to the declaration of independence issued on the 17 February 2008 by the Assembly of Kosovo. By weighing the validity of the arguments advanced in favour or against the independence of Kosovo, the Author first highlights the violation of the terms of the UN Security Council resolution 1244/99 by the unilateral declaration of independence & the contradictions & omissions inherent in the claim of uniqueness about Kosovo advanced by most of the States which have decided to recognize the new entity. The Author then claims that the independence of Kosovo cannot be characterized neither as an exercise of a (dubious) right to a remedial secession nor as a fait accompli. He therefore concludes that Kosovo does not qualify yet as a subject of international law, that the acts of recognition of the new entity adopted by several States are premature and, as such, illegitimate & that, notwithstanding it is resolutely denied in any official statement, the conduct of abovementioned States seems to be permeated by the philosophy of the remedial secession. Adapted from the source document.

This paper aims to analyze the question of legal personality of European Union to show the interpretation of this current aspect. The EU's personality has been recognized progressively to the Member States & to the International Organizations. The legal personality is a kind of "added value," vested by an appropriate international rule ad hoc to recognize personality to all corporate bodies, which have got the typical features of the sovereignty: people & territory. Recent years have seen a new debate on the future of Europe. In 2001, after the Treaty of Nice, the European Council adopted the Declaration on the future of EU, committing the Union to becoming more democratic, transparent & effective. It agreed to draft the Treaty establishing a Constitution for the Europe. This was the basis for the text adopted in the 2004, signed in Rome by the Heads of State & Government of the Member States. The text set out the values of the EU. It put the Charter of Fundamental Rights at the heart of the EU law, strengthening the guarantee of civil & political rights for all European citizens. The draft Treaty gave personality to the EU enabling it to sign International Agreements. The Berlin Declaration of the 2007 had meant the symbol of a reunited Europe. In the end of 2007 had been signed the Treaty of Lisbon by the 27 Member States. Our reality, in a so rapid evolution, faces the globalization of the economics, the climatic changes, the demographic evolution, the safety & the energy: the Europeans must to learn to have confidence in EU. The Treaty of Lisbon has gone into effect in the end of 2009. Adapted from the source document.