Abstract
The rationale of this paper would be extracted from the fact that a regional policy, in the full European patterned comprehensive sense, was never thoroughly pursued in Romania since joining EU in 2007. Our research try to evaluate if there are any preliminary historical assets in order to ease the process of modern regionalization and further on to investigate the policies that were officially implemented in order to comply with the overall EU territorial developmental framework. Last but not least we investigate the ad-hoc approaches of several of the local public administrators in the country, innovative approaches conceived in order to mend the evident lack of consistency of governmental public policies in this area. Within this respect our endeavor is to benchmark the overall progress of the country towards genuine regional development to some recently taken steps by some local administrative bodies, steps that already proved to be lucrative for a few counties in North-Western Romania.
Highlights
The rationale of this paper would be extracted from the fact that a regional policy, in the full European patterned comprehensive sense, was never thoroughly pursued in Romania since joining EU in 2007
Our primary target within this research is to interpret some of the issues correlating the present day lagging regionalization process that is based on economic arguments debate, with historic, geographic, demographic, cultural, social or business and environmental features that might be relevant for the country and worth taking in consideration in terms of policies and/or actions that should occur in the predictable future
Romanian political establishments endorsed after 1989 the blueprint of a regional territoriality of Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics (NUTS) II type explicitly designed for the purpose to absorb EU funds
Summary
The historic process of investigating the alternatives for diminishing all categories of transaction costs, a task continuously pursued since the inception of economic science, witnessed in time variations that indicated at one extreme the fact that only globalization could rationally respond to such a challenge and at the other end that “acting local” and reducing entropy by all means is the option in the contemporary, strategically bound towards sustainability, economic climate. Overall we can observe an interwar years relative status quo of the issue of regionalization, situation that is broken only in the late 30s, under German influence, when between the years 1938–1940 when the German Gaus were replicated in Romania as ţinuturi (territories) though there is no track of historic consistency whatsoever in them.
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