20 Years of european funds' management - what we have learned and what is to do next? A practitioner's perspective

AuthorElena Marcu, Marius Stefan Corduneanu
PositionLecturer PhD/Student
Pages100-106
AGORA International Journal of Juridical Sciences, http://univagora.ro/jour/index.php/aijjs
ISSN 1843-570X, E-ISSN 2067-7677
No. 2 (2019), pp. 100 - 106
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20 YEARS OF EUROPEAN FUNDS’ MANAGEMENT – WHAT
WE HAVE LEARNED AND WHAT IS TO DO NEXT? A
PRACTITIONER’S PERSPECTIVE
E. MARCU, M-S. CORDUNEANU
Elena MARCU
Lecturer PhD.
Faculty of Juridical and Administrative Sciences, Agora University of Oradea, Romania
*Correspondence: Elena Marcu, Agora University of Oradea, 8 Piaţa Tineretului St., Oradea,
Romania
Email: elena.sferlea@cjbihor.ro
Marius Ștefan CORDUNEANU
Student, Faculty of Juridical and Administrative Sciences, specialization Law
Agora University of Oradea
ABSTRACT:
The management of European funds was part of the public agenda, in a consistent
manner, for the past 15 to 20 years. Although visible progress has been made since the
moment Romania started to access pre-accession funds (Phare, ISPA, SAPARD), to date, with
direct effects on the economic growth, the efficiency in implementing it suffered a lot due to
the political spectrum intervention, the human resource involved, the volatile administrative
framework or even due to the influence, sometimes unwelcomed, of the private sector. The
present material tries to unveil some of the causes that affected the implementation of
European projects, and also to offer a range of solutions for a better management of it, taking
into consideration the fact that the new programming period, 2021-2027, is at our doorstep.
KEY WORDS: European funds; management; political spectrum; human resource;
absorption.
INTRODUCTION
Although Romania officially joined the European Union on the 1st of January 2007,
the European path of the country started much earlier, the most important moment from the
perspective of European funds management taking place in February 2000: during the EU
Council for General Affairs meeting, for the launching of the Intergovernmental Conference,
the official accession negotiations are opened, which meant that from that moment on,
Romania had the opportunity to access European funding, through pre-accession
programmes
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Hereinafter, we will make a short presentation of Romania’s situation at that moment:
a disastrous economic situation, marked by dubious privatizations, political and institutional
instability, a never-ending provisional state (the so called “transitional period”), of general
uncertainty at all levels of society. The Progress Reports issued by the European Commission
mentioned, in not so optimistic terms, the stage of implementation of the necessary measures
to be taken in order to join the EU, the administrative framework being one of the main issues
to be tackled at that moment, as it is stated into the 2003 Report: “Although Romania
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For more details, please consult https://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_PRES-00-32_en.htm, accessed on
12.09.2019.

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