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 The beneficial regularisation of immigration in Romania
The study „The Beneficial Regularisation of Immigration in Romania” is part of the series of sectoral researches and analyses conducted under the Migration and Development program, by the Soros Foundation Romania, with the purpose of contributing to the design and promotion of coherent public policies, which are reliable and sustainable in the field of migration, by mobilizing the existing expertise at national level and at different institutional and organizational levels with regard to the management of migration flows. This qualitative research is based on 26 in depth interviews carried out with representatives of the institutional system of imigration regularisation in Romania.
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 Local authorities face to face with the European funds
Between August 2009 – January 2010, Soros Foundation Romania has conducted a sociological research having two components: a quantitative component, based on a self-completed questionnaire, sent to all the Mayor’s Offices across Romania, and a qualitative component, which consisted of 8 case studies. We focused our approach on post-accession funds, available to Mayor’s Offices in 2007-2009. From a total amount of 3185 Mayor’s Offices 3008 have responded, which represent a response rate of 94%. The questionnaire was disseminated by a consortium made up of the Romanian Centre for Economic Modelling (RCEM), the National Institute of Statistics (NIS), and the Quality of Life Research Institute (QLRI).
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 CRPE - Policy Memo no. 9: Let us not be afraid of European Monetary Fund
EU chief of states who will meet at the spring European Council have to decide upon two major issues of European economic governance. One of them is how to rescue Greece, the other one is the creation of mechanisms for economic supervision at the communitarian level. RCEP argues in this report that it is in Romania’s interest for the EU to create strong mechanisms for economic supervision – simply because one would share / import fiscal responsibility with the others, a thing Romania still lacks.
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 CRPE - Policy Memo no. 8: Romania and the common budget reform
The common EU budget represents approximately 1% of EU member states’ GDP. Even if this figure is a small one, EU budget has always been an issue in the European integration process. This report aims at making a presentation of the common budget mechanisms, an analysis of the decision-making mechanisms which determine the final form of the respective budget, as well as discussing Romania’s position within this mechanism.
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 Romanian Electoral Studies - Newsletter no. 5
The Newsletter is available in Romanian only, here.
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 CRPE Policy Brief no. 5
Global negotiations with regard to the reduction of gas emissions having a greenhouse effect do involve costly commitments and complicated tactics in order to create diplomatic alliances. Romania has to become a serious and credible actor regarding this issue and moreover, has to base its strategy on the good knowledge of the domestic environment. On the one hand, it has to fulfill its obligations as an EU member state which implies money and efforts to build up coherent policies for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions in several sectors. On the other hand, depending on how Romania will succeed to negotiate its position within the EU, it could get financing to be invested in the energy sector as well as other sectors: an opportunity which would allow not only to reduce the emissions, but to produce energy more competitively.
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 Speak with us!
“Talk to us! A study on the labor conditions for immigrant workers in Romania” is a publication produced within the project Talk to us! financed by Soros Foundation Romania, Open Society Fellows Program and implemented by ARCA-Romanian Forum for Migrants and Refugees and the Initiative For Dialogue Group (GID) and ProWomen Iasi.
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 CRPE Policy Memo no. 6
After many obstacles the Lisbon Treaty has faced, it finally entered into force on December 1st 2009, thus the Spanish Presidency will be the first to function according to the rules of the new treaty. This new treaty was supposed formally to reduce the participation of the country holding the rotating presidency, however Spain came with an ambitious agenda, which has been previously discussed with Belgium and Hungary fully involving them as the successive holders of the rotating presidency. The Spanish government laid down four priorities of the Union:
Implementation of the Lisbon Treaty
Coordination of economic policies in order to recover after the world economic crisis
Launching of the “Europe 2020” strategy
Enhancing the foreign policy of the EU
Improving the rights and liberties of EU citizens
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George Soros was born in Budapest, Hungary, on August 12, 1930. He survived the Nazi occupation of Budapest and left communist Hungary in 1947 for England, where he graduated from the London School of Economics (LSE). While a student at LSE, Soros became familiar with the work of the philosopher Karl Popper, who had a profound influence on his thinking and later on his professional and philanthropic activities.
The financier. In 1956, Soros moved to the United States, where he began to accumulate a large...
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Launch of the study Beneficial Regularisation of Immigration in Romania