CHALLENGES AND CONSTRAINTS FOR THE E.U. POLICIES

  • Marina Luminita SARBOVAN ”Tibiscus” University of Timisoara
Keywords: existing gaps, policies for agriculture, totally integrated

Abstract

The EU Commission launched in 2004 “On the review of the Sustainable Development Strategy – A platform for action”, and also a renewed Sustainable Development Strategy for the enlarged EU, as a consequence of several new challenges we have to face: enlargement, climatic changes, energetic constrains. The meaning of these documents is to ground the financing of the latest priorities as major issue in national policies regarding rural development and agriculture. These documents set out a coherent strategy on how the EU will more effectively live up to its long-standing commitment to meet the challenges of sustainable development, in the sense that The Rio-Conventions approach, (upon bio-diversity and upon climatic changes) is and will be applied systematically to all economic and environmental EU policies. Romania develops its own priorities in accordance with its needs and national plans, policies and programs, in order to achieve significant progress in the years ahead in meeting the fundamental objectives of convergence in rural and agricultural sectors. The political measures are based on comparing the macroeconomic indicators, in order to cut down the existing gap among the national levels of development and more evolved EU ones, in several key branches, process known under the generic notion-term of “convergence”. The solution able to diminish the gaps seems to be the internal effort, combined with an added financial injection in the targeted activities.