A #CENTRALEUROPEWEEK EVENT – Experts from the US and Romania gather to outline key challenges and opportunities for growth, prosperity, and security, both in the Black Sea region and Europe more broadly. A public discussion in the Central Europe Week virtual event series. This year the United States and Romania celebrate 140 years of diplomatic relations and enter into one decade of...

Such a timely talk on how to build a good society together – about public spirit, social foundations, and honouring our obligations to each other! Some suggestions: a Universal Public Service Program – in which everybody is supposed to contribute with their time to the co-creation of public goods, or something as simple as considering our neighbours’ kids, not just our own....

Oana Popescu Zamfir : Moderating an online panel earlier on engagement with civil society, as part of the conference ‘Europe’s Eastern Partners: Building a Development Agenda for Resilience’, organised by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), the German presidency of the Council of the European Union, The German Marshall Fund of the United...

by Clara Volintiru Cities in Central and Eastern Europe are becoming promoters of democratic values, even when central governments are acting otherwise. The impact of COVID-19 on democracy has been mixed in Central and Eastern Europe, as elsewhere. While the pandemic has accentuated community-led solutions and the importance of responses tailored to local realities, central governments...

LIVE Institutul pentru Studierea Evenimentelor Extreme organizează dezbaterea „The Pandemic: How Societies Respond to it!”...

Stanford, Johns Hopkins, McGill, Yale, Princeton, UCL (University College London), Harvard, EUI (European University Institute in Florence) – si lista poate continua. 12 oameni = cel putin tot atatea institutii de pe primele locuri ale topului mondial universitar si de cercetare. Cu totii am fi putut fi oriunde in lume weekendul trecut (multi dintre noi de altfel traiesc si lucreaza in...

Abstract This article brings an important empirical contribution to the academic literature by examining whether gender differences in tax compliance are due to higher prosociality among women. We conducted a large cross-national tax compliance experiment carried out in different countries—Italy, UK, USA, Sweden, and Romania. We uncover that women declare a significantly higher percentage...

de Clara Volintiru Ca în Cronica unei morți anunțate, criza economică globală era așteptată de ceva vreme. Modelul economic de dezvoltare rezultat din acordurile Bretton Woods încetează să existe: piețele globale se decuplează și încetinesc semnificativ producția și consumul, în special în marile economii ale lumii. Ca într-un roman polițist, intuiam desfășurarea...

Why do we need #innovation in cities? Why is it important to have a #collaborative approach between public administration and business sector? Why do we need collaborative and active #urban #ecosystems in order to boost innovation and #sustainable & #SMARTCities? How will the businesses be affected after Covid-19? Do we need another approach on business, more nature based and more...

My thoughts on the current economic crisis, and how can the European project rise to the challenge! Many thanks, Carlos Carnicero...