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Preface / Paul E. Sum -- Introduction / Lavinia Stan -- The start of a new era? : Romanians react to Ceaucescu's fall / Katherine Verdery -- Coming to terms with the communist past : democracy and memory in Romania / Marius Stan and Vladimir Tismaneanu -- Public space and the material legacies of communism in Bucharest / Duncan Light and Craig Young -- Ethnicity, nationalism and the "minority regime" / Levente Salat and Csaba Zoltán Novak -- On women, feminism and democracy / Mihaela Miroiu -- Political culture and participation : between enthusiasm and indifference / Radu Cinpoes -- Spectacular alterations, few changes in Romania's media / Peter Gross -- Representation, incumbency and the quality of Romanian democracy / Ronald F. King and Cosmin Gabriel Marian -- Unsocial democrats : the PSD's negative role in Romania's democracy / Tom Gallagher -- House of cards : the presidency from Iliescu to Basescu / Lavinia Stan and Diane Vancea -- Romania's commitment to the rule of law? / Dennis Deletant -- Environmental network governance in Romania / Cristina E. Parau -- Conclusion / Monica Ciobanu

It is a measure of the weakness of Romania's democracy that despite electoral system reforms and shifting party alliances, the only real political change in the country post-1989 has been generational-from senior to junior former communists. Adapted from the source document.

The accession to the European Union for Central and Eastern Europe countries involved their requirement to start the process of the European Monetary Union integration. The desire to enjoy the benefits of EU membership has made both the 10 countries that joined EU in 2004 and Romania and Bulgaria which became EU member in 2007 to engage on the path to join the European single currency endeavoring to meet not only the nominal convergence criteria but also real convergence. This paper makes an analysis of the Romania's capacity to achieve the nominal convergence criteria in the current context. The change of the financial and economic conditions due to the crisis that spread worldwide during 2007 - 2008 changed the issue from "Romania can fulfill the nominal convergence criteria?" in "Is it advisable for Romania to adopt the Euro, given the uncertainty clouds over the currency's future?" The analysis is made by considering the comparative situation of other countries that are in the process of joining the single currency. The objective of the research undertaken in this paper is to investigate Romania's capacity to approach the nominal convergence criteria and so realistic goal of joining the Euro it is.