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FLORESCU Margareta and POTCOVARU Ana-Mădălina
FAMP
LOCAL DEVELOPMENT’S INFLUENCE ON THE FREEDOM OF THE DECISION-MAKING
CCASP
PROCESS IN LOCAL COLLECTIVITIES IN ROMANIA

a better quality life through accessibility, mobility and increased security of citizens (Vaslui Local Council,
2011). The second and most important objective is to reduce disparities and to ensure accessibility and
mobility between deprived areas and the central line of the city.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE 11 TH ADMINISTRATION AND PUBLIC MANAGEMENT INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
One of the major problems of Vaslui, unlike other comparable sized cities in the center and West of the
country is also one with very few short term solutions: depopulation. After the large communist factories
closed in the 1990’s, there were a lot of unemployed and skilled workers and those workers found a new

destination not long after by emigrating in the Western European countries that had a booming economy
in 2005-2008 period, especially Spain, Germany or Italy.

Negresti Oas is a small city located in Satu Mare county, having a population of almost 12,000 people.

Located in a rich and beautiful area in the country, Negresti Oas was a predominantly agricultural town
before WWI, after that became more industrialised, the back then authorities starting the extraction of

different construction materials, coal and iron ore, along with the exploration and production of the mineral
and thermal waters.
30 th – 31 st October 2015 ”Strategic Management for Local Communities” Bucharest Nowadays, after the fall of the communism, only a fraction of the industrial activity remained alive, with a

single production site for construction materials and another for the mineral water spring. To somewhat
compensate the loss of the industrial basis, all the local investments were made in order for the city to
become a point of interest for tourists, Negresti Oas being now a touristic city with a local level of interest

(City Hall of Negre?ti-Oa?, 2012).

The city's management encouraged the tourism by offering incentives to domestic and foreign investors,
thus having a modern ski slope, housing units for tourists, restaurants and, not in the end, rehabilitated

roads and sewage.

Calafat is an old and small city located in the south of Romania, on the banks of the Danube, one of the
main and most important purposes being that as a river port and shipyard. But, like most other small cities

having a sole industry for surviving, after the collapse of the whole industry in the 1990's, Calafat became
more as a resort, a tourist destination for fishing or hunting. A boost was gave in 2013, when a new bridge
over the Danube that unites Romania and Bulgaria created a local hub for the import and export of

different goods towards and from Bulgaria and the Balkan Peninsula (Calafat Municipality, 2013).

The bridge's construction created a new oportunity for local businesses to offer different services for the
import and export of goods, the local municipality taking action towards small and medium businesses

support, but there is not a single area of support or development currently in place for the city.

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