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Kristina Stoyanova
European Policies for Multilingualism
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The present study aims to present contemporary European multilingualism policies. In the spirit of European values, the quest for knowledge is directed towards the development of language competences in more than one of the European languages. These policies are gaining momentum especially after Britain's exit from the European Union. The purpose of the research is to show the direction in which the European policies for multilingualism are heading. They are of utmost importance for the development of common values in the European Union and represent an indispensable support for the sustainability of the Ênion. Learning another foreign language has many positive sides. learning a language other than the mother tongue develops a new way of thinking in the learner. This is of utmost importance for creating a climate of acceptance and mutual understanding.
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Hristo Dochev
Bulgaria - a Part of Fifth Enlargement of EU. The EU Constitution
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Violeta Blazheva
Evolution of EU Common Agricultural Policy
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The year 2012 marked fifty years of the EU Common Agricultural Policy – the basis for European integration providing food security and dynamic agriculture for European citizens for five decades. This paper focuses on its evolution and achievements of the reforms carried out. These reforms were designed to provide quality food to citizens at reasonable prices and a decent standard of living for farmers and their objectives are still valid today. Over the years, European agricultural policy has helped to overcome three key stages: leading Europe from scarcity to abundance of food, meeting the new challenges associated with the sustainable use of natural resources, and expanding the role of farmers in rural development. The reform of the EU Common Agricultural Policy aims to strengthen the competitiveness and sustainability of European agriculture and rural development.
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Valentin Milinov
On the Characteristics and Evolution of Monetary Policy
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The study investigates the problems related to monetary policy within the process of its evolution and according to the development of the monetary policy theories and the stages of development of the economy and the monetary systems. The paper reviews the various levels of implementation of monetary policies and the possibilities for its influencing the economic process. The influence is effected through direct and indirect tools used by the national banks. For this end the banks set certain operative (short-term), interim, and final (long-term) objectives, the most important factor being the choice of adequate strategy of the monetary policy, i.e. the choice of „nominal anchor”. In this respect the study focuses on monetary targeting, inflation targeting, and currency exchange rate targeting. The experience of other countries is especially valuable for Bulgaria in the process of the country’s accession to the European Monetary Union. The study comes to the conclusion that in this respect the most important question is how the currency board shall be abandoned: (1) whether it must be preserved until the country’s accession to the European Monetary Union or (2) the peg of the Bulgarian lev to the Euro should be abandoned prior to the accession to the European Monetary Union.
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Mariana Georgieva
Eastern Partnership: Outline for the Strategic Management of the Eastern Borders of the European Union
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The purpose of this study is not a comprehensive revision of the existing analyzes, practices and official opinions on the Eastern Partnership and the thematic platform "Contacts between people. The ambition is to focus on those activities that would lead to the convergence of patterns of social relations and social development between the European Union on the one hand, and countries neighboring the EU and Russia, on the other side. Particular attention is paid to the liberalization of visa regime as a prerequisite for the intensification of contacts between people and to increase mobility.
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Siyka Kovacheva, Donka Keskinova
Public Attitudes towards European Social Policy
(according To ESS 8 Wave)
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Social policy is often overlooked in public discourses over European integration despite that it is a significant instrument for raising its legitimacy. On the basis of systematic analysis of mass attitudes to European unification, measured in the 8th wave of European Social Survey (ESS), this paper shows that in the EC as a whole European tend to support the introduction of an all-European scheme for social assistance and to consider that more decisions taken on the supranational level will improve social security for all. At the level of the separate countries the citizens are divided in their preferences for a national or a supranational European social security system. On the individual level, the low-status groups are more inclined to support all-European social measures than the citizens at the higher ranks of the social hierarchy. The expansion of integration towards a more pro-active supranational social policy will secure the support precisely of the groups who today feel left behind in the European project.
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Snezhana Blagoeva
Preliminary Evaluation of the Effect of the European Green Deal on the Agricultural Sector in the EU
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The European Green Deal is a new strategy for the overall development of the EU, which horizontal nature leads to the creation of regulations and requirements simultaneously affecting several economic sectors and policies. Assessing the effect of the Green Deal on the agricultural sector requires looking at the overall situation created since its adoption. The purpose of the article is to review the individual elements of the Green Deal and the regulations based on it, in order to identify the potential effects on the agricultural sector. The assessment should consider not only the direct impact on production, exports, competitiveness and farmers' incomes, but also on food prices and food availability. The contribution of agriculture to climate, natural resources and biodiversity should also be taken into account.
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Anna Suhovich
The Role of Direct Foreign Investments in Economy of Republic of Moldavia - in the Light of European Integration
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The achievement of the standards established by the EU in different fields means the activation of the investment activity support in stimulation of direct foreign investments. The principal conditions for the facilitation of foreign investments are: the creation of different conditions for the augmentation of employments, the development of small and middle enterprises, the augmentation of the exports and the activation of the search-development.
For obtaining the facilitations, as for the local and for the foreign investors, the mainly condition is the same condition.
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Todorka Atanasova, Nadka Kostadinova, Georgi Jeliazkov, Rumen Otuzbirov
Synergetic Paradigm and its Role in the Development of Agrarian Entrepreneurship in the Process of EU Integration
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Nikola Yankov
A Holistic Model and Methodics for the Business Development Process
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The problem is especially valid for the 2007 – 2013 ã., in which the Bulgarian economy has to be modernized and Bulgarian enterprises to be supported in their developmental efforts by special European and national strategic programes and funds. Applying for funding the enterprises has to create their own models. Due to this we present in the study possible conceptual models. They have to be available befor the real projects for business organizational development process starts. The development process needs a comprehensise methodics for the evaluation and strategizing. It is also presented in the study.
The object of the study is a holistic concept for approaching and for development of business systems to be presented. Before to start the real development of the business systems their management has to analyse and then to strategize them as networks. The relations between different managerial documents are also examined.
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Teodora Petrova, Zhivo Petrov
Strategic Potential and United European Projects for Cooperation of the European Defense Agency
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The European Defense Agency is the European Union key institution in the implementation of measures to provide resources for the Common Security and Defense Policy. The agency has set goals in the field of developing a military resource base, defense research and development, united European armaments cooperation projects, strengthening the industrial and technological base and as a main task, creating a common competitive market for military and dual-use products. In recent years, the agency has managed to launch and partially implement a number of united European projects aimed at simplifying the harmonization of standards and accessibility of defense markets for European manufacturers.
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Ankan Dutta
Transformation in Europe & India for their economic growth: key prospects and the untapped opportunities
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The material put its focus on:
• How India (as EU’s strategic partner) and her SME-s1 are looking into this opportunity to expand into European (including the fast growing Eastern regional) markets of Industrial Technology & Engineering
• The prime indicators from HannoverMesse2 2006 - “The case of Germany”: Doorstep to Europe’ for expanding the base of industrial manufacturing and technology collaborations rapidly.
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Magdalena Mosionek Schweda, Maciej Tokarski
The Absorption of the European Funds Granted to Poland for the Period 2007-2013 – Examples of Projects and Evaluation
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Poland was granted over ˆ 67.3 billion as the European aid for the years 2007-2013. It comprised almost 20% of the total amount earmarked for the cohesion policy of the European Union for the years 2007-2013. The funds were utilized by Polish enterprises, local governments, non-governmental institutions, farmers and other entities. The main aim of this article is to present the evaluation of use of the EU funds in Poland for the period 2007-2013. The analysis was based upon the statistics data published in Poland by the Ministry of Infrastructure and Development, Eurostat and the European Commission. The analysis of the sources on the subject as well as observations of the business practices allowed forming a thesis that Poland competently utilised the European funds for the years 2007-2013 and thereby benefited considerably. Nonetheless, despite the significant influence of the funds onto the GDP growth dynamics and the increase in the standard of living, in the overall view Polish economy has not gained much in the innovation aspect due to the fact that the financial resources acquired by the Polish companies from the subsidies were largely earmarked to purchase the already existing western technologies, thus, making them dependent upon the know-how of the huge western conglomerates – which must be disapprovingly assessed.
