PUBLIC POLICY AND SOCIAL REALITIES, pages: 85 - 98, 2019

Romania within the Realms of the EFTA

Abstract: Romania entered the European Union in 2007 and from then on, two important countries outside of the European Union started to help with financial grants. Norway and Switzerland from the European Free Trade Association. Several programmes and projects have been founded since and are still in work. The aim of this article is to present briefly the EFTA and the financial aid programmes of the two countries. Also, at the end of the article, there will be a short and non-representative comparison of projects founded by the two countries. But the article also wants to show how well do the involved institutions inform the general public by means of websites and electronic documents, stats and data.