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"And how do you know that they will do it no harm?" the hodja broke in angrily. "Who told you ? Don't you know that a single word can destroy [...]

The post-communist Romania will confront many changes, both in ideologic as in functional fields. If ideologic changes were sawn as normal by a very large part of the population, the organisational changes would be often more difficult to realise. It is the case of adopting and application of the subsidiarity, although the modifications turn out to be more and more visible, and the process of the European integration should be considered as a catalyst of the administrative structures evolution in the direction of decentralisation and a stimulus for the people to assume more civical responsibilities. Key words: subsidiarity, European integration, administrative structures, Introduction The fall of the communist regime brought in the Romanian public discourse numerous new realities and concepts. Hence, in the early period of the post-communism, words as 'democracy 'or [...]

One of the crucial intellectual and social challenges facing corporation leaders is to foster a new way of thinking about business and society which recognizes the multinational corporation as a key player in society's responsibility to support and maintain fairness in the global reorganization of markets. In order to establish a sound global social economy, we are in need of the organizing and directing principles of solidarity and subsidiarity. Both of these principles speak to the need of transforming our public and private institutions in such a way that all persons are placed in positions whereby they can share in the benefits of the newly-formed global economy. KEY WORDS: freedom-as-participation, relationality, solidarism, subsidiarity

A full 125 years has passed since Sir Henry Parkes delivered a speech at Tenterfield advocating for a political process that led to the Federation. Throughout this period, our constitutionalism [...]

This article explores the connection between the subsidiarity principle and national sovereignty in the context of EU environmental policy. In addition to providing an historical account of this connection, the article suggests that subsidiarity represents a Janus-faced concept capable of either supporting or undermining the legitimacy of EU environmental policy. By developing explicit criteria by which to apply subsidiarity, a number of areas are identified in which existing EU authority could be replaced by exclusively national action or laws which granted states significantly more discretion over environmental decision making. Examples are then presented where this shift of power back to the member states has already been proposed and in some cases already occurred, recasting the balance between national sovereignty and supranational environmental constraints. Throughout the analysis, particular attention is paid to the efforts of Britain, a primary antagonist in the debate, to preserve its sovereignty over environmental policy.

The policy of subsidiarity has changed from a way to expand the powers of the European Commission into a way of assuring that the Commission's power is limited. Subsidiarity allows member nations to strike agreeements among themselves while maintaining posotions of national interest and allowing agreement despite differences in idology. The principle of subsidiarity is seen as a hindrance to the political integration that the European nations wish to achieve.