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INSTITUTIONAL “HEALING” OF ROMANIA AFTER DECEMBER 1989
INSTITUTIONAL “HEALING” OF ROMANIA AFTER DECEMBER 1989

Author(s): Cătălina Szekely
Subject(s): Constitutional Law, Civil Law, Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Canon Law / Church Law, EU-Legislation, Sociology of Law
Published by: Editura Universitatii Petrol-Gaze din Ploiesti
Keywords: public institutions; democracy; communism; European Union;

Summary/Abstract: This paper presents a series of concepts considered vital for understanding the way the currentsystem of public institutions functions in Romania, as well as the flaws of these state structures. We do notclaim to set verdicts, but to briefly analyze the evolution of the Romanian institutional system since WorldWar II to present times and its efforts to assist the fragile democracy that was established after the eventsof December ‘89. The present status of Romania as a member of the European Union implies itsinstitutional system to be still monitored in some respects