Vasile Puşcaş is a Romania

Romania

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n politician, diplomat and International Relations professor.

Biography

During 2000-2004 he was the Romanian Chief Negotiator with the European Union

European Union

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,(11 February 2004). Romanian EU chief negotiator: European Commission financial package "important", BBC MONITORING INTERNATIONAL REPORTS (Rompres news agency, Bucharest) ("Romania's Chief Negotiator with the European Union, Minister-Delegate Vasile Puscas ....") and he is considered by many "responsible" for Romania's accession to the EU.
Currently, he is a member of the Romanian Parliament and a member of the PSD

Social Democratic Party (Romania)

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 - Social-Democratic Party in Romania.
He is highly appreciated both in Romanian political circles and the European ones.

Puşcaş is also a member of the Advisory Board of the Institute for Cultural Diplomacy

Institute for Cultural Diplomacy

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Works

• România spre Uniunea Europeană. Negocierile de aderare (2000-2004), Iaşi: Institutul European, 2007
• România şi iar România. Note pentru o istorie prezentă, Cluj-Napoca: Eikon, 2007
• European Negotiations. A Case Study: The Romania’s Accession to EU. Gorizia, IUIES, 2006
• “Sticks and Carrots”. Regranting the Most-Favored-Nation Status for Romania (US Congress, 1990-1996) / “Bastoane şi Morcovi”, Reacordarea clauzei naţiunii celei mai favorizate (Congresul SUA, 1990-1996), Cluj-Napoca: Eikon, 2006
• Relaţii internaţionale/transnaţionale, Cluj-Napoca: Sincron, 2005

• Negociind cu Uniunea Europeană, 6 volume, ed. Economică, Bucureşti, 2003:

vol. I - „Documente iniţiale de poziţie la capitolele de negociere” (2003)

vol. II – „Initial Position Documents” (2003)

vol. III – „Preparing the External Environment of Negotiations” (2003)

vol. IV – „Pregătirea mediului intern de negociere” (2003)

vol. V – „Pregătirea mediului de negociere, 2003 – 2004” (2005)

vol. VI – „Comunicarea publică şi negocierea pentru aderare, 2003 – 2004” (2005)

• Universitate-Societate-Modernizare, Presa Univ. Clujeană, Cluj-Napoca, 1995; Ediţia a II-a, 2003

• Speranţă şi disperare - Negocieri româno-aliate, 1943-1944, Bucureşti, Ed.Litera, 1995; Ediţia a II-a, 2003

• Relaţii internaţionale contemporane, Cluj-Napoca, Sincron, 1999; Ediţia a II-a, 2003

• Căderea României în Balcani, Cluj-Napoca, Dacia, 2000

• Pulsul istoriei în Europa Centrală, Cluj-Napoca, Sincron, 1998

• Transilvania si aranjamentele europene. 1940-1944, Cluj-Napoca, Ed.FCR, 1995

• Alma Mater Napocensis – Idealul universităţii moderne, Cluj-Napoca, Ed. FCR 1994

• Dr. Petru Groza – pentru o „lume nouă”, Editura Dacia, 1985 (a fost interzisă şi arsă întreaga ediţie)

External links

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