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Over time, people have focused their attention not only on faith and atheism, but also on the concept of religious tolerance. With the founding and expansion of the Islamic State, with the establishment of terrorist groups, formed and based on religious ideologies, the above-mentioned discussion has extended considerably. The information presented in this paper is meant to strengthen intercultural religious tolerance and provide support for debates on tolerance and acceptance of the diversity of faith and human security. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is an in-depth analysis of the results of the Republic of Moldova within the Eastern Partnership in the light of the ―Eastern Partnership Index‖ study. For ten years, the Republic of Moldova has had different results in the Eastern Partnership, being considered even the ―success story‖ in a certain period of time, and then giving way to Ukraine and Georgia in certain areas of development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims at investigating the evolution of the transatlantic cooperation in the post-Cold War period, focusing on the energy and environment sectors, mainly from a European perspective. To this end, both qualitative and quantitative methodology instruments have been resorted to: secondary data analysis, discourse analysis, interpretation of statistical data. Comparing and contrasting between the EU and the US perspectives, as well as between the three European Commissions' approaches (Barroso, Juncker and von der Leyen), we have determined the EU's growing ambition to consolidate its specific policies, its interdependences and divergences with the US on matters of common concern. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The collapse of political regimes in the former communist bloc countries was accompanied by challenges and efforts to overcome the major problems with which these countries have faced. In this new geopolitical situation the former communist countries have faced many problems simultaneously. It is worth mentioning that among the urgent problems that have had former communist countries were major economic difficulties and the orientation toward a new political course. Both of these elements cannot be realized without the help and support of international institutions, where the European Union has played a major role. Researches submit that is a clear causal relationship in the use of conditionality by the EU to provide political or institutional results to the countries that want to integrate. Democratic conditionality has to do with the acceptance of new members only after they have met all the requirements set by the EU. EU enlargement with new member states from former communist bloc countries testifies the EU positive role in the incentives for the transition of former communist countries to democracy and market economy. The situation changes in the journey that Western Balkan countries have made towards democracy. This paper will analyse the effects of democratic conditionality mechanism in the strengthening of democratic regimes in the Balkans. Did this mechanism of democracy conditionality been effective in the institutionalizing democracy in the Balkans countries, if not, what were the reasons that this mechanism has not functioned in this region. The answer to these questions will be the core of this paper. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper aims to undertake an analysis of a less researched area that of cross-border police cooperation in the European Union. We will track the way how police cooperation followed the European construction process: police cooperation in the European Community; the birth of the TREVI Group; police cooperation and the Schengen area; police cooperation within the Treaties of Maastricht, Amsterdam, Nice and Lisbon, finishing with the analysis of the intergovernmental arrangements at EU level and the attention given to cross-border police cooperation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]