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09.12.2009
Here we go again! Romania after the presidential elections
Mr. Basescu unexpectedly came up as a winner against the odds in after the second round of the presidential elections in Romania in December 2009. Romanian expert Cristian Ghinea says in a new EuPI policy brief that:
"Many things depend on Basescu`s willing to change its abrasive way to make politics. Now that he is the first Romanian president to win a second consecutive term in office, he has little to prove in the face the other politicians, but rather a statue to build for himself in the face of history.
Whoever is making the next government, it will have to stay within an inflexible 5.9% budget deficit target for 2009. That means unpopular measures to sack state employees, to reform the pension system and to control state companies. While watching actively the political turmoil, IFM gives signs of losing the patience with the Romanian politicians. It already delayed the second installment of the loan and losing it completely would mean the virtual bankruptcy for a country that already pays unaffordable interest rates for its bonds bought by the private banks. The cold shower from the IMF could end quickly the current politic squabbles in Bucharest."
You can read the EuPI policy brief "Here we go again! Romania after the presidential elections" here.
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The EC has released a new report dated March 17, 2010, which assesses the stability and convergence programs of fourteen EU Member States, saying among all that "[R}eflecting the working of automatic stabilisers and discretionary stimulus measures ... to cope with the exceptional economic circumstances, a large majority of Member States is currently subject to the excessive deficit procedure..." Click here to continue reading..
Article in the EUOBSERVER quotes George Soros statement on the New Member States of the EU, saying "the European Union must do more to help its struggling eastern region, including a fast-tracking of member state applications to join the euro currency."
In an interview with EUobserver on Thursday (12 November), he also called
on the EU to develop a dedicated strategy to alleviate the difficulties
faced by the region's Roma population.
The World Bank has released a new report on eve of 20th anniversary of the Berlin Wall’s fall, focused on Emerging Europe and Central Asia. The report says structural reforms are now necessary to protect hard-won gains.
As Bulgaria is heading to a single party minority government in July 2009, EuPI has prepared a fact sheet with the longevity of governments, including type of govenment, in the new EU member states in CEE prior and after accession.
As Dominique de Villepin, head of an international advisory panel to Prime Minister Stanishev, will present a report “Bulgaria in the EU”, you can read EuPI/OSI-Sofia’s report “BULGARIA: The EU New Member States as Agenda Setters in the Enlarged European Union” in English here and a summary in Bulgarian here. | |
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23.07.2009
“The Unfinished Business of the Fifth Enlargement Countries” analyzes the problems faced by the ten new member states after their accession to the EU in eleven policy areas including political development, the economy, the healthcare system and education.
EuPI has released a series of reports within the project "The EU New Member States as Agenda Setters in the Enlarged European Union", with the "Not Your Grandfather’s Eastern Bloc" comparative policy report.
EuPI has contributed to a major report on EU-Russia relations by ECFR's Mark Leonard and Nicu Popescu | |
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