Issue No 1(13), 2014

• BONNE GOUVERNANCE ET DEVELOPPEMENT DURABLE: MODERATEURS DU SERVICE PUBLIC DE GESTION DES DECHETS SOLIDES URBAINS. CAS DE LA VILLE DE TIZI-OUZOU
  
  DjafarDjeffal
  Abstract

  Notion étymologiquement ancienne, le service public s’est construit sur la base de choix politiques et idéologiques. Il demeure encore une notion paradigmatique pleine d’ambigüité, mais qui désigne indifféremment une gamme non cernée de services aux attentes des besoins divers de la population. À la fin du XXème siècle, le monde subissait un tournant qui n’est pas des moindres, suite à l’apparition de méfaits imposés aux écosystèmes et dont la responsabilité nous incombe. Pour y faire face, une panoplie de mesures et de dispositifs a été mise en place par la communauté internationale, d’où des traités ratifiés par les états-nations. La conférence de Rio De Janeiro de 1992 a imposé le concept de développement durable et de gouvernance locale, comme étant l'expression d'un souci de conciliation entre des préoccupations écologiques et socio-économiques, ce qui a permis de donner le jour à un plan d’action, l’agenda 21 qui met l’accent sur la mission et le rôle des collectivités locales pour sa concrétisation.
  
  Keywords: service public, réforme, administration publique, bonne gouvernance, développement durable, déchets ménagers, gestion des déchets
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• MERCOSUL - LATIN-AMERICA UNION
  
  FloroiuMihai
  Abstract

  Since the beginning of the 1990s, integration between countries has increased at supranational level in view of social and economic progress, with major economic blocs making decisions to go beyond national borders. Facing this new reality, South American States also joined in this type of integration, creating the Mercosul (Southern Common Market), as the main economic bloc in Latin America which comprises Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay and Venezuela, which came into operation in 1991, after the Treaty of Asunción, featuring an economic bloc whose main principle was free trade between members. Mercosul has approximately 300 million people and generates a GDP (Gross Domestic Product) of $ 1.1 trillion and aims to strengthen economic and commercial spaces, seeking a commercial growth for intensified economic rise of its members States, as it follows a global trend, most likely as the European Union. This paper will highlight how the Mercosul member States tried to recreate in Latin America a similar integration concept as in Europe, via commercial cooperation leading to economical and, possibly, political integration, aiming thus at regional development, scientific and productive integration and institutional development.
  
  Keywords: Mercosul, regional development, integration, sovereignity, Latin America
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• ESSEY REGARDING THE CONTENTIOUS ADMINISTRATIVE INSTITUTION IN THE PERIOD 1864-1866
  
  GălăţeanuOana
  Abstract

  The jurisdictional function, from the point of view of the litigations that are the object of the trial, is structured in two parts: common law contentious and contentious administrative. Contentious administrative consists of all those litigations that appear between individuals and the Public Administration within the activity of organizing and exercising the public services and where there are put to trial public law juridical situations. In Romania, the contentious administrative appeared relatively late, following a historical evolution found in direct connection to the needs specific to the country. In this work it is presented the first period registered in the evolution of the Contentious Administrative institution, respectively the one of the period 1864-1866, a period characterized by the existence of an administrative court of law represented by the State Council. More exactly, there are presented: the way this Council was organised, its responsibilities based on the law, and finally, its abolition, mentioning also some of the reasons which led to it.
  
  Keywords: contentious administrative, competencies, legislation
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• THE POLITICS OF IMAGE AND NATION BRANDING IN POST-COMMUNIST COUNTRIES. BRANDING POLICIES IN ROMANIA
  
  PătraşcuCristina
  Abstract

  Branding represents a prominent topic of the media today and people tend to understand it as being equivalent to advertising, graphic design, promotion, public relations or propaganda, but the concept has many other meanings when applied in the context of images or representations of a country. The article sustains that for post-communist countries, besides the real necessity to conceive and develop new policies to ensure their economic growth, there is the necessity to elaborate new policies meant to define powerful nation-brands to promote their image on the international market. After the fall of communism, the process of nation branding has gained great popularity in Eastern-European countries becoming a focus of attention for their governments. In the past decade, these countries have engaged in branding campaigns which have been more or less successful.
  
  Keywords: media, branding, nation-brand/branding, national identity
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• FAMILY VIOLENCE – THEORETICAL AND PRACTICAL ASPECTS
  
  SlabuElisabeta
  Abstract

  Romania’s integration into the European Union caused a growing preoccupation with the protection of fundamental human rights whereas the fight against family violence became a central topic of the national policy. In this context, both the legislation and strategies adopted in the field have been modified in order to prevent and fight against this serious phenomenon. At both national and local levels, efforts have been made to conceive a series of instruments considered as absolutely necessary for the evaluation of this phenomenon and for the opportune intervention in due time, in order to guarantee better ways of protecting the most vulnerable categories, namely women and children. At the same time, there have been various efforts to incorporate the national legislation within the limits established by the international law in the field and to make the working methods used in the case of family violence meet the current European standards. The emphasis is laid on both the teamwork of the professionals who try to identify, take over and deal with the cases of family violence, but also on all the activities for preventing family violence. The fight against family violence represents also a fight for the protection of children and human rights as they are established in the UN Convention on the rights of the child, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights.
  
  Keywords: domestic violence, offences pertaining to family violence, fundamental human rights
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