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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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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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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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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.
