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Siyka Kovacheva, Donka Keskinova
Public Attitudes towards European Social Policy (according To ESS 8 Wave)
JEL: H55, H59

Keywords: European integration, European social policy, all-European measures for social protection, mass attitudes

Summary: 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.
Anna Suhovich
The Role of Direct Foreign Investments in Economy of Republic of Moldavia - in the Light of European Integration
JEL: F21

Keywords: foreign investment, Moldova, European integration

Summary: 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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