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Résumé: Dans les circonstances crées par la chute du communisme, la vision roumaine sur l'intégration européenne a connu des changements et des évolutions radicales. Acceptant, au début, ce processus comme réalité historique et la collaboration économique bi et multilatérale avec les pays occidentaux et avec l'Union européenne, la Roumanie est arrivée à accepter l'intégration européenne et, plus important, de demander officiellement l'adhésion économique et militaire. Cela montre un changement radical de la conception et de l'attitude politique qui va de la coopération à l 'intégration complète dans les structures économiques, politiques, monétaires et militaires européennes.
Keywords : European Union, Integration, Sovereignty, Federalism, Subsidiarity.
The notion of "integration" has acquired another, much more comprehensive connotation in economics, politics, individual and collective mentality since the treaties of Maastricht and Helsinki.
Considering the way it was conceived and prepared from economic, political and administrative point of view, integration represented a radical change, a break of huge size starting from local and national agents and markets, multiple and diverse, from individual and national decisions to an economic institutional and decisional space, inter and suprastate, to community policies and strategies, both for the interior and the exterior. Convinced and aware of this indubitable truth, politicians have adhered, not without reservations, to the tactics of small and successive steps because it is the only way suitable for obtaining the results desired and expected in the circumstances of the present European space. This is the explanation for the fact that the EU expanded from 6 to 12 members and will further expand from 25 to 27 members, for the fact that a single currency was introduced and how the European Constitution will certainly be adopted.
All the attempts to define the concept of "integration" were and still are situated between the meaning of cooperation and the one of creating supranational spaces and organizations.
The pluralist approach recommends a form of loose association based on the sovereignty of nation-states which envisage integration as a "pluralistic community of states" developing links of international cooperation. In this form of integration the national states aim at "political union" by intergovernmental cooperation at the level of heads of states or government, while "the international organization has no real will of its own and no power to...