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Under European law, EU directives and the problems of their transposition into national law are an issue that reflects the complex nature of the relationship between EU's power to issue regulations and Member States' tasks in deciding the optimal form of application of these rules internally. This paper presents the experience of Romania, one of the new Member States which joined the EU in 2007, with regard to the transposition into national system of the European directives as a means to illustrate the dynamics of the relationship between the European Union and the Member States. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to identify how and if cultural diversity, as a fundamental and moral value of the EU, is effectively protected by EU law. I will start from the EU competences on cultural matters and try to find out if, while dealing with cultural issues, the EU is actually protecting its "unity without uniformity" and its "diversity without fragmentation". The recent and stronger intervention of the EU in cultural matters, after Lisbon, raises questions as to its real aims, be it the building of a stronger and stronger "small common denominator" in cultural issues as well, by means of uniformity or the real protection of cultural diversity of its Member States [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]