Meeting European Standards and Criteria in the Romanian Economic Field

I.Introduction p. 4
The Idea of a United Europe p. 4
The Schuman Plan p. 10
The construction of the European Union p. 11
The Enlargement process p. 15
Hypotheses p. 19
The theoretic approach p. 20
Methodology p. 20
References p. 21

II.The body of the paper p.22
1. The institutions and the decision-making process p. 22
2. The enlargement in South-East Europe p. 35
Accession criteria p. 38
The convergence criteria p. 40
The process of negotiations p. 41
The case of Romania p. 46
The present economic situation p. 59
The analyze of the hypotheses p. 66

III.Conclusions p. 69

IV.Bibliography p. 70
Contents of the tables
Table 1: Number of seats per political group, as at 1 April 2003 p. 26
Table 2: Number of seats per country in the European Parliament p. 27
Table 3: The evolution of the important economic indicators for1990-1999 p. 51
Table 4: Estimated values of the economic indicators for the period 2000–2004 p. 53
Table 5: The evolution of the economic indicators between 2000 and 2001 p. 54
Table 6: Estimated values of the economic indicators for the period 2000–2004 p. 57
Table 7: The consumer price index p. 66