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In Memoriam Adrian Marino - The resurrection of Europeanism as ideology in post-communist Romania was done in villa from downtown Cluj, in the surroundings of the library of a great scholar who had reached the biological – but not psychological, old age, in the years following the 1989 overthrow. Back then, after two years during which Ion Iliescu and his collaborators had thought that the autochthonous revolutionary impetus could be quenched by a Gorbachev-like government of the perestroika–glasnost type, the arresting of the last USSR president, his stormy release and the dissolution, in 1991, of the communist colossus in the east threw the Romanian decision-makers into a persistent state of confusion for the years to follow. The voice that was distinctly heard, for those who chose to listen to it, putting forward the natural orientation towards the European Union – not only in the field of Romania’s external alliances, but also as a pattern of civilisation, was that of Adrian Marino.
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In this article an efficiency of privatization as tool of economic policy has been elaborated. The authoresses examine and comment various scientific approaches towards privatization process and its efficiency. Paper presents a controversial privatization case in Lithuania’s oil industry. Economic interpretation of privatization role and its impact on activity of strategic enterprise has been analyzed. Considerations about privatization efficiency in transition countries have been presented.
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Faculty of European Studies: Acts of Establishment
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Intense competition forces companies to invest more and more into the formation of human capital that helps to improve the management of the company, the application of new technologies and the achievement of new strategic goals. Thus the standards of quality of investment in people rise. However, Lithuanian enterprises lack the systematic approach to the employee’s training and do not sufficiently invest into the development of human capital. Therefore, the aim of the paper is to analyse the role of employee’s training from the point of economics, human resource management and other theories. Another target of this paper is to discuss some tendencies and problems of employee’s training in Lithuania.
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Implementing dedicated information systems within organizations is the most challenging part of IT strategies, since they significantly increase activity efficiency if properly implemented, and on the other hand, may cause major investment problems, otherwise. The paper focuses of the stages, principles and strategies of adequately implementing dedicated information systems. We sustain our statements by presenting a case study on our university. In Romania, the implementation of global management information systems which synthesize relevant information from all the organization’s compartments is still in its early to medium stages. Nevertheless, the use of such systems has proven to be extremely efficient in providing an electronic management board and assistant for designing management strategies and synthesizing the organization’s activity. It is essential to take into account the advantages that adequate information systems may bring into the organization and the importance in adopting efficient strategies in choosing and implementing such systems.
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Beginning with an overview of the “basic” knowledge on Gypsies, the article develops further around different aspects of the issue of the “Roma culture”. The aim of the text is to clarify how a peculiar social and historical situation of this minority group has determined a specific form of its culture. Finally, the article puts into light the difficulties for the modernization of this group that are caused by the specific reactive form of its cultural traits.
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L’étude met en évidence les fondements culturels du processus d’intégration européenne et soumet au débat des arguments culturels pour la modernisation et l’européanisation de la société roumaine. Elle reprend le débat tradition - modernité qui a fait une carrière intéressante tout au long du XIXème siècle ainsi qu’au début du XXème siècle et souligne la rupture, la parenthèse tragique introduite par le régime communiste dans l’évolution culturelle et profondément européenne de la Roumanie. Elle plaide pour une deuxième modernisation et européanisation par la culture dans la nouvelle période historique commencée en 1989 et introduit dans le débat le potentiel pratiquement inépuisable de l’intellectualité, de l’élite, dans le processus de l’intégration européenne de la société roumaine.
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Entrepreneur Viktor Uspaskich's Labor Party wins the first round of parliamentary elections as expected. Now comes the wheeling and dealing.
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The top Islamic governing body in Tajikistan has declared that women cannot attend mosque. What’s behind the sudden announcement?
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In a tumultuous week, a presidential candidate withdraws, while the country moves closer to the EU.
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Having opened the door to Turkey, the EU must now be willing to open the door to other unlikely candidates. But they must first follow Turkey’s example and bring about decisive change.
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A proposed new Hungarian law on beverage containers is unlikely to stem the tide of plastic.
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Abkhazia's first presidential election produces surprises and paradoxes.
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As the government prepares to answer an EU questionnaire, the 7 November referendum on the government's redistricting plans is casting a shadow.
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A new EU questionnaire helps focus minds on the dreadful state of the Macedonian economy.
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Romanian students continue to hear conflicting and ambiguous messages about the mass murder of their country's Jewish citizens.
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Belgrade gets more conciliatory in its dealings with the Hague tribunal--and is rewarded with a case transfer.
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The paper analyses the terms tyrannos and basileus in both Greek politics and Greek drama, taking under special scrutiny various connotations and associations of the terms tyrannos and tyrannis in the language of Attic tragedy.
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The paper analyses the life and position of Antonia Caenis, a former slave and a long-time concubine of emperor Vespasian.
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