COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS ON THE IMPLEMENTATION OF EUROPEAN PROJECTS AT THE LEVEL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION AND ROMANIA IN THE PERIOD 2007-2013 AND 2014-2020

Abstract: The EU’s Structural and Investment Funds are the EU’s largest regional investment program, supporting the social and economic development of Europe’s various regions by bridging the gap between them. The main purpose of the article is to analyze European funding instruments. For this, the analysis and description of some main terms regarding the European projects, the analysis of the financial instruments, the implementation of the European projects in the period 2007-2020, both at the EU level and at the Romanian level, were performed.

Keywords: project management, financing, structural funds, European Union

JEL Classification: E22, F3, F5, F6, H5