European Union of the Regional Disparities
European Union of the Regional Disparities

Summary/Abstract: The paper deals to the idea of the necessity of changing EU’s political approach in order toface to the new inside and global challenges. In order to support this idea, the analysis uses fourrepresentative indicators: educational attainment level, hospital beds at 100000 inhabitants,employment rate and unemployment rate. The initial analysis was focused on EU’s regions andpointed out great disparities. A distinct part of the analysis covers Romanian regions. The analysis isrealized on two levels: macroregions and NUTS 2 regions. Romania is not an exception from thepaper’s approach. The main conclusion of the analysis is that EU arrived into critical point and has tochange its political and economic approach in order to reduce and to eliminate the regional disparitiesand to increase its credibility as global actor.

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