The purpose of this article is to analyze cross-border cooperation as one of the important multifunctional tools aimed at developing good neighborly relations with states on the borders of the European Union, as well as supporting economic and social development and promoting European values in partner countries in the context of EU enlargement. The long-term objectives of cross-border cooperation projects aim at: creating more bilateral benefits; improving the physical and economic infrastructure; human resources development of the region; deepening cultural and educational ties; preparing for EU membership; environmental protection etc. Cross-border cooperation is favored by cultural heritage, ethno-linguistic heritage, historical heritage or the presence of national minorities. The Romanian community in Ukraine or the Ukrainian community in Romania, the common ethno-linguistic heritage of the population of Romania and the Republic of Moldova are favorable elements in the process of cross-border cooperation.

CSOs are a key component of an open and democratic society as they play a key role in the strengthening of democracy and the rule of law, their dialogue with the public authorities being a precondition for this. By analyzing the development of dialogue between Moldovan CSOs and Central and Local Public authorities (CPA / LPA), I found that PA are not yet fully aware of the value of the dialogue, which is sporadic and guided by certain interests, that do not always coincide with the public interest. The key objective pursued by this research was to review the environment underlying activity and collaboration of the civil society from the standpoint of influence exerted by the internal and external factors that determine the core essence of the social environment, while paving and setting conditions for carrying out activities and collaboration between the civil society and public authorities. The paper aims to prove that more communication and collaboration between public authorities and civil society organizations, will likely result in a more inclusive, qualitative and focused act of governance. The author analyses and presents the existing decision-making systems and its consultation mechanisms with the civil society organizations in the Republic of Moldova, the existing opportunities for CSO’s involvement in the public policy making process and the actual practices.A number of research methods were used in the study, aimed at highlighting the particularities of the dialogue and cooperation between the public authorities (PA) and the CSOs, as part of the act of governance, studying the development over time and the influence of various social, economic and political factors on these processes. Thus, the historical analysis method to research the origin and evolution of the legal framework that regulates the dialogue and cooperation between PA and the CSOs was applied. It included analysis of the relevant laws, regulations and policies, together with existing reports and studies on the subject of research, in the Republic of Moldova. I found that public authorities are not yet fully aware of the value of the dialogue and the political factor is also of great influence, as in recent years there has been an increasing pressure on the civil society. The paper reflects the current situation in Moldova, which can be summarized as follows: a) there are no permanent mechanisms or platforms for cooperation and consultation, open to all. Civil society participation is limited to a small number of CSOs, and there are no incentives for the growth of CSOs. b) LPAs, compared to CPAs, enjoy a much higher level of ,,trust” from the society/community, but they rarely have the resources and skills to conduct a constructive dialogue with CSOs; c) there is a proven reluctance of the LPA/CPA to deepen the dialogue and cooperation with the civil society; d) The culture of participation is very weak as there is no perception that participation is an instrument of change. A number of recommendations in order to address the identified problems are listed.

After the signing of the Association Agreement between the Republic of Moldova and the European Union on June 27, 2014, it was obvious that the European option becomes a priority for the future of the Republic of Moldova. Although the political forces present in the arena of Moldova were divided into two almost equal segments: some opted for European Integration, others opted for the Eurasian Union. In this context, the European aspirations of the Republic of Moldova were clearly outlined and, in the same way, the main impediments to EU integration were formulated. The contradictions between the two options were like litmus paper that marked the differences and possible obstacles to integration. The task of the politicians was to make the road outlined in the Association Agreement as fast as possible, with tangible results and the achievement of the goals outlined in the Agreement. But it was not to be, the road traveled was much more difficult, with multiple errors, hesitations and political failures due to which the Republic of Moldova is still at a crossroads of history.

There is a global trend towards the widespread application of confiscation of criminal assets, especially those obtained as a result of corruption offenses. Given that criminals are becoming increasingly intelligent and already know the tools used by law enforcement agencies, it is becoming increasingly difficult to fight crime. Through this article we set out to research new methods used by other states or proposed by some authors in the field of recovery of criminal assets. We all know the tools such as confiscation, requests for international legal assistance, seizure, but these are the tools that float above the water, long visible and known not only by law enforcement agencies but also by criminals. What is of real interest are the instruments that are at the ,,bottom of the sea” where not every state had the courage to sink, but they found a real treasure, materialized in recovered criminal property. Some tools are taken from the practice of British law, others are just ideas from practitioners who have worked in the field of criminal property recovery. Confiscation of property is an important tool in the fight against crime, we do not deny the importance of official instruments, but we consider it appropriate to widen the limits imposed by national legislation in this field.

The right to a healthy environment is one of the fundamental rights enshrined in the Constitution of the Republic of Moldova. The institution of public procurement, on the other hand, is one that can make a significant contribution to setting clear guidelines for environmental protection through appropriate regulations and public procurement policies that would give environmental standards a leading place. In the article below we emphasize that the regulation of environmental criteria in public procurement law is only a necessary condition, but by no means sufficient. There is a whole set of prerequisites that should be met for effective regulations in terms of environmental benefits.

CSOs are a key component of an open and democratic society as they play a key role in the strengthening of democracy and the rule of law, their dialogue with the public authorities being a precondition for this. By analyzing the development of dialogue between Moldovan CSOs and Central and Local Public authorities (CPA / LPA), I found that PA are not yet fully aware of the value of the dialogue, which is sporadic and guided by certain interests, that do not always coincide with the public interest. The key objective pursued by this research was to review the environment underlying activity and collaboration of the civil society from the standpoint of influence exerted by the internal and external factors that determine the core essence of the social environment, while paving and setting conditions for carrying out activities and collaboration between the civil society and public authorities. The paper aims to prove that more communication and collaboration between public authorities and civil society organizations, will likely result in a more inclusive, qualitative and focused act of governance. The author analyses and presents the existing decision-making systems and its consultation mechanisms with the civil society organizations in the Republic of Moldova, the existing opportunities for CSO’s involvement in the public policy making process and the actual practices.A number of research methods were used in the study, aimed at highlighting the particularities of the dialogue and cooperation between the public authorities (PA) and the CSOs, as part of the act of governance, studying the development over time and the influence of various social, economic and political factors on these processes. Thus, the historical analysis method to research the origin and evolution of the legal framework that regulates the dialogue and cooperation between PA and the CSOs was applied. It included analysis of the relevant laws, regulations and policies, together with existing reports and studies on the subject of research, in the Republic of Moldova. I found that public authorities are not yet fully aware of the value of the dialogue and the political factor is also of great influence, as in recent years there has been an increasing pressure on the civil society. The paper reflects the current situation in Moldova, which can be summarized as follows: a) there are no permanent mechanisms or platforms for cooperation and consultation, open to all. Civil society participation is limited to a small number of CSOs, and there are no incentives for the growth of CSOs. b) LPAs, compared to CPAs, enjoy a much higher level of ,,trust” from the society/community, but they rarely have the resources and skills to conduct a constructive dialogue with CSOs; c) there is a proven reluctance of the LPA/CPA to deepen the dialogue and cooperation with the civil society; d) The culture of participation is very weak as there is no perception that participation is an instrument of change. A number of recommendations in order to address the identified problems are listed.

Nowadays, the public-private partnership in contemporary conditions becomes a driver of economic development, a basis for modernization and a factor for increasing the country s competitiveness. That determines the development of infrastructure potential in the form of construction and modernization of a complex of socio-economically significant objects. In the developed countries, being a reality promoted recently, the public-private partnership encompasses intellectual, institutional and organizational resources, and acquires an increasingly important role in integrating the managerial structure in central and local public administrations. The analysis of the configuration of the management of international publicprivate partnership projects, in the conditions of financial and economic instability, highlights the issue of attracting the private sector to participate in the management and financing of socially significant strategic infrastructure projects. In this regard, this article is intended to extrapolate the project management methodology in the context of public-private partnership, the implementation of which can significantly improve the process of managing public-private partnership projects.

The article analyzes food security as the most important component of the national security system for providing the country s population with food. According to the authors, national food security is the ability of the national food system to satisfy the scientifically based physiological needs for food of all social groups of the population as much as possible through its own production, provided that these groups are equal in consumption of a minimum sufficient in quantitative terms and a balanced assortment of food products that meets the accepted nutritional and quality standards. It is concluded that the Republic of Moldova, unlike the existing practice, should approach food security in line with generally accepted scientific and practical approaches: ensuring physical and economic access to quality food for all groups and categories of the population.

The normative framework regarding the planning, elaboration, approval, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of public policy documents is in force in the Republic of Moldova, but the implementation of its provisions requires more effort and resources. There are currently a number of difficulties with the procedures for monitoring and evaluating policy documents, such as strategies. At the same time, the year 2020 was the deadline for a series of strategies at national and sectoral level, which implies their final evaluation to improve planning for future periods. Thus, it is necessary to analyze existing deficiencies, as well as to study and apply best practices in the field of M&E to strategic documents.

Pia?a globala a eco-economiei a început sa se formeze abia în ultimele decenii, crescând anual ?i depa?ind semnificativ dezvoltarea altor sectoare ale economiei ?i, de asemenea, deschizând noi ni?e de pia?a. Dezvoltarea rapida a economiei mondiale actualizeaza necesitatea studierii tiparelor de formare ?i a mecanismelor de sus?inere a statului pentru pia?a eco-economiei. Introducerea managementului orientat spre ecologizare, în special, în contextul lansarii pe pia?a eco-economiei, nu s-a raspândit înca, inclusiv din cauza prezen?ei unor probleme cu alegerea instrumentelor de management care ?in cont de specificul acestei pie?e. Articolul examineaza experien?a sus?inerii statului pentru dezvoltarea pie?ei eco-economiei în Uniunea Europeana prin introducerea inova?iilor care au contribuit la solu?ionarea problemelor actuale economice ?i de mediu la nivel european.

Currently, the notion of “performance” is infiltrating with safe steps in public management. Attempts to assign concrete qualities to the performances registered by the LPA management are more and more frequent, in order to identify some possibilities to quantify these performances. The article tries to clarify what the performance itself entails, and then to identify the qualitative criteria that are relevant for the evaluation of these performances. In order to establish the criteria, the legal prerogatives of the LPA that ensure the increase of the quality of life in the local community, as well as the needs and expectations of the community were taken into account, for the simple reason that the objectives of civil servants must be correlated with community needs.

Sustainable development is a principle of organizing the development of a country, an inevitable imperative of planning, and planning is a principle of organizing land use planning through a series of legislative reforms. The normative sphere of sustainable planning is an unprecedented opportunity between development and the environment in terms of ensuring territorial cohesion. As a country develops, planning becomes more and more important. A dynamic development involves making more and more decisions that need to be coordinated and correlated. As a country s economy grows, planning capacity needs to be developed and decisionmaking needs to be streamlined at all administrative levels.

Political ideology, as an important spiritual and informational resource, designed either to preserve or to change the degree of domination of ideas in the public consciousness, is designated as a true meaning of collective action. At the same time, public policy is the direction of action chosen by public authorities in response to a certain problem or a set of interconnected problems. These actions can be generated and strengthened by certain political ideas. Thus, the relevance of the approach of the researched subject is determined by the need to identify the dialectic between ideology and public policies, in order to deeply understand the aspect of this phenomeno.

Scientific and theoretical methodology tends to penetrate the essence of the investigated phenomena and processes. This is possible on the condition of a comprehensive approach to the object of study, starting with its appearance and its continuous development. The relevance of the research is the hypothetical justification of the reconsideration, which can be obtained by solving the invoked problem. The science of administration fully investigates the activity of the state in order to capitalize on the tourist potential aiming at the optimal fulfillment of its tasks, the satisfaction of general interests and the defense of interests, in the codifications of amplifying the role that public administration has as main tool.

In the conducted research, the legal features of social assistance in the Republic of Moldova were identified and hhighlighted the importance of this law institution in the harmonious development of any society. Moreover, the impact of social policies on the living standards of social assistance beneficiaries and their development prospects according to the social standards established at international level were assessed.

In the conducted research, the legal features of social assistance in the Republic of Moldova were identified and hhighlighted the importance of this law institution in the harmonious development of any society. Moreover, the impact of social policies on the living standards of social assistance beneficiaries and their development prospects according to the social standards established at international level were assessed.