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The paper aims to outline the vulnerabilities and major dangers posed by "exceptional" measures in the current context of the pandemic from the perspective of "distribution of competences" and the legal and moral responsibility of the authorities. The assumption of this paper is that in regimes with "exceptional" measures there is (a) the risk of authoritarianism of executives in conditions of restricted role (supervision and control) of parliaments and the judiciary, civil society and the media, manifested as risk of misuse and mismanagement of COVID-19 funding and of increasing corruption in the spending of public funds; (b) the risk that the authorities will not take responsibility for "emergency" decisions related or not to the pandemic, avoiding the verification of the legality and proportionality of the measures. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Assuming that 1989 was a moment of an affirmation of the political cultures belonging to the Central and Eastern Europe's countries, this article attempts to highlight the specific elements of the overthrow of communism in Poland. In this regard, we analyze the Solidarnosc phenomenon from the perspective of the Polish political culture essential dichotomy : insurectionism vs. organic work. The main conclusion of this paper, entitled „The year 1989 in Poland. The Political Virtue of Moderation and the Conservative Vocation of Polish Solidarity“, is that the roundtable in the 1989 Poland represented the victory of Polish civil society in achieving a synthesis of the most important trends of the Polish political tradition, by assuming the conservative value of moderation as the principal political attitude. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper discusses the impact of the Western assistance for democracy in the Balkans (Eastern Europe), as civil society development programs. The analysis of the situation in the Balkans leads to the conclusion that the main consequence of this Western assistance has not been the export of democracy, but the increased capacity of the receptors (NGOs) to implement such programs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper analyze the impact of Integration programs on Third Country Nationals in Romania taking into consideration especially the integration programs implemented by civil society trough European Integration Fund. Following the analysis, there are a few specific problems in the integration programs implementation such as: unclear procedures, unrealistic indicators, the relationship between NGOs and the fund management authority is hierarchical, but the TCNs participants have in general a positive opinion about the utility of this specific integration programs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Copyright of Bulletin of the 'Carol I' National Defence University / Buletinul Universitatii Nationale de Aparare 'Carol I' is the property of Carol I National Defence University and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)

This article illustrates that only working together at european and national policy makers, civil society and media can make society stronger, developing the creative potential of people belonging to different environments. Their dynamism strengthens media in Europe and enriching all of us in this process, because European societies are multicultural and diverse. Diversity should be understood as an asset rather than a threat to democracy. The Role of Media in Promoting Anti-Discriminatory Policy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Copyright of Quality of Life (1018-0389) / Calitatea Vietii is the property of Romanian Academy Publishing House / Editura Academiei Romane and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)

This paper aims to analyze the environmental integration requirements of policies in urban development policies. In the analysis of human - urban - environment relations, it assumes that human society, although belonging to nature, created a civilization that alter its natural environment and prevent an artificial creation - the built environment. This environment, although artificial, however, is superimposed on the natural environment and its operation, to ensure living conditions and development of human society and be in balance with the natural environment, helping to ensure its normal development depends on the actions of the modeling people. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The issue of globalization consists of an approach from the perspective of all socio-human science, even if sometimes it insists on the perspective of economic globalization. In order that it can, however, to work as you want from an economic, political and social conditions created for members of the society, as they may wish to engage in the process of globalization. In this paper we tried to present globalization as a phenomenon in itself, the importance of cooperation in economic and political level with a view to achieving a global open society since it was established that by emphasizing the importance of the mechanism of the market is neglected the social side of globalization, moral issues arising as a result of this phenomenon, social justice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The long Romanian transition period created a stagnation of the civil society. The paper presents some considerations regarding the role of civil society, focusing on the relationship with urban planning and also analyzing some possible solutions for improving its role with the aim of revigorating the Romanian society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Nicolae Gheorghe’s legacy is unique for the Roma. A man that dedicated all his life and knowledge to understand the past and current realities and further hoping to contribute to a different future of the European Roma. There are several articles published presenting his life, but only few talks about his ideas, values, and vision. The “gheorghianism” is at its first steps of conceptualization, within the academia and civil society, at almost a decade since Nicolae Gheorghe passed-away. The current text it is an introductory article of some of the struggles and intellectual challenges of Nicolae Gheorghe. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the field of security studies, the French culture has been particularly focused on the objective to remove any suspicion of civil society regarding the legal activities of gathering information. The term "intelligence" (borrowed from English) appeared in this context and its introduction has generated debates about the cases of synonymy, especially with renseignement. So, the numerous definitions was formulated in order to avoid the mistrust of the society. In addition, notional fluidity is the main reason for which the term intelligence seems not to have been imposed with authority in the specialized field of security in France. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]