<p>Abstract</p><p>The study examines the European Union coverage in a Swedish and a Romanian newspaper during three different weeks. The aim is to answer the question of how the different countries portray EU and what quality there is on the information the readers or users receive from the papers. How the media portrays the European Union is an important topic to study when it comes to democracy. The European Union makes a lot of national decisions and controls a lot of our daily politics so it is important that the people get relevant and good information.</p><p>Sweden joined the European Union in 1995 after a referendum where only 52, 3 percent of the Swedish population wanted to join and then only if the European Union acknowledged Sweden’s wish to remain neutral. Romania’s on the other hand joined the European Union in 2007 after long negotiations. The country had to improve a lot of social and economical problems before they were aloud to join. When they finally did join the European Union together with Bulgaria they did so under the strict conditions that they would fight the corruption and other problems harder.</p><p>The theories we used was: normative theory, media effect theories, framing, medialogic, gatekeeping and europeaness. The previous studies we were inspired by was Vanni Tjenströms “Europa Norrifrån” (2001), Ulf Wallin´s “ Vad vi fick veta” (1994) and Göran Palm´s “I marknadens och nationens namn” (2002).</p><p>With this study we could discover that the Swedes view the European Union mostly like a profit organization and the economical part of the membership was very important. The view the Swedes had of themselves was a very positive one. They thought that their living standards were much better than that of other citizens in other countries in the EU. The Romanian people see the union more like a hope for the future but they see themselves as failures.</p>

Abstract The study examines the European Union coverage in a Swedish and a Romanian newspaper during three different weeks. The aim is to answer the question of how the different countries portray EU and what quality there is on the information the readers or users receive from the papers. How the media portrays the European Union is an important topic to study when it comes to democracy. The European Union makes a lot of national decisions and controls a lot of our daily politics so it is important that the people get relevant and good information. Sweden joined the European Union in 1995 after a referendum where only 52, 3 percent of the Swedish population wanted to join and then only if the European Union acknowledged Sweden’s wish to remain neutral. Romania’s on the other hand joined the European Union in 2007 after long negotiations. The country had to improve a lot of social and economical problems before they were aloud to join. When they finally did join the European Union together with Bulgaria they did so under the strict conditions that they would fight the corruption and other problems harder. The theories we used was: normative theory, media effect theories, framing, medialogic, gatekeeping and europeaness. The previous studies we were inspired by was Vanni Tjenströms “Europa Norrifrån” (2001), Ulf Wallin´s “ Vad vi fick veta” (1994) and Göran Palm´s “I marknadens och nationens namn” (2002). With this study we could discover that the Swedes view the European Union mostly like a profit organization and the economical part of the membership was very important. The view the Swedes had of themselves was a very positive one. They thought that their living standards were much better than that of other citizens in other countries in the EU. The Romanian people see the union more like a hope for the future but they see themselves as failures.

EU-citizens who are coming to Sweden to beg is a current topic. The purpose of the study was to investigate the actions offered by the municipality and non-profit organizations to help these people. A qualitative approach was chosen and altogether five interviews were carried out, three with municipal representatives and two with different non-profit organizations. The result showed that there is a number of different actions and many of these are based on collaboration with the two parties. All informants were of the opinion that the implementation worked well but that there were clear limitations. The limitations included lack of knowledge about the current group and language difficulties. The results also showed that the most common merits was that the vulnerable EU-citizens were treated as people and that they got food and a roof over their heads. The results were analysed by previous research, Maslow's hierarchy of needs and Antonovsky’s sense of coherence. One of the study’s conclusions was that further knowledge about vulnerable EU-citizens who begs is necessary.

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Das Phänomen der Liberalisierung, welches charakteristisch für die politische Entwicklung der östlichen Länder Europas ist, spiegelt sich auch in der allgemeinen Entwicklung Rumäniens wider.

Spain and Romania are two countries which have been successfully democratized. Fransisco Franco ruled Spain for a long time as a fascist dictatorship and Ceausescu ruled over Romania as a communist state. Today, both countries are considered democracies despite remaining problems with, for example, corruption. This study examines the process, when a state goes from a dictatorship to a democracy and the factors that influence a democratization and theories about this process. In this study, two different countries (Spain and Romania) that underwent this process are compared to examine wheter there are differences in the factors that contributed to a democratic transition in these two countries, as well as their conformity with the chosen theory by Ekman and Linde. This is intresting to investigate as the transition for many countries is a very problematic process where some transitions become successful and others do not. The aim of this study was to test theories about democratization. In my result I found that the theory about Transformation, Transplacement och Replacement was applicable to the cases of Spain and Romania.

I det svenska samhället finns flera olika religiösa församlingar etablerade och i dagens globala kontext är frågor och forskning rörande migration och religion mer aktuella än någonsin. Uppsatsens syfte har varit att undersöka hur tre unga kvinnor med invandrarbakgrund som tillhör en rumänsk pingstförsamling belägen i Skåne skapar och vidmakthåller mening kring sitt religiösa engagemang samt huruvida det finns några samband mellan etnicitet och religiös engagemang. Metoden som använts har varit kvalitativ intervju och teorierna som har varit utgångspunkt i undersökningen har varit kunskapssociologi och teorier kring migration. Resultatet av undersökningen visade att det var relativt enkelt för de unga kvinnorna att skapa och vidmakthålla mening kring sitt religiösa engagemang som en följd av gruppens ständiga förstärkning. Resultatet visade även att det samband som finns mellan etnicitet och religiös engagemang beror på viljan att anpassa sig till religonens ställning i Sverige och religionsutövningen i en svensk pingstförsamlingen och viljan att bevara vissa aspekter från hemlandet.

\"Obwohl er nicht zu unserem Volke gehörte ... \" - so beginnt der Verfasser der ersten rumänischen Musikgeschichte Mihail Grigore Poslusnicu (1871-1936) die Verdienste von Carol Miculi in der Geschichte der rumänischen Musik zu würdigen2. Nicht alle Musikhistoriker unseres Landes sind dem Beispiel dieses Bahnbrechers gefolgt. Etliche von ihnen hielten oder halten Miculi - wenn auch nur stillschweigend - für einen Rumänen, der in Wien studierte, eine Zeit in Paris in Chopins Umkreis leben durfte und ab 1858 in Lemberg seine segensreiche und vielseitige Tätigkeit ausübte - aber ein Rumäne blieb. Octavian Beu (1893-1964), ein geschätzter Jurist und Diplomat seiner Zeit, der auch als ein eifriger Forscher der rumänischen Musikgeschichte großes Ansehen genoß, machte es sich sogar zu seiner erklärten Aufgabe, den \"Fehler\", Miculi nicht für einen Rumänen zu halten, zu verbessern. Diese militante Einstellung ist in der rumänischen Fachliteratur allerdings einmalig.

Im Zuge des Transformations- und Globalisierungsprozesses in Rumänien kommt es in den letzten 15 Jahren zu einer Annäherung an westliche Lebensmuster und parallel dazu zu einer Binnendiversifizierung der Lebensverhältnisse. Allerdings wird das Land nicht flächendeckend von den internationalen ökonomischen Verflechtungen erfasst, sondern es lässt sich eine noch stärkere regionale Ausdifferenzierung als vor der Wende von 1989 beobachten. Traditionelle und moderne Gesellschaften leben nach wie vor nebeneinander. In vielen ländlichen Räumen Rumäniens, so besonders in der wirtschaftlich eher schwachen Dobrudscha, haben sich traditionelle Lebensweisen, Besitzstrukturen, Arbeitstechniken und Bewirtschaftungsformen bis in die heutige Zeit erhalten. Im September 2004 wurden im Rahmen eines Geländekurses unter Berücksichtigung der Raum- und Minderheitenforschung sechs ausgewählte ethnische Minderheiten der Kulturlandschaft Dobrudscha, die in der wissenschaftlichen Literatur meist nur am Rande untersucht wird, während des noch laufenden Transformationsprozesses genauer betrachtet. Dabei wurde mit Hilfe von Experten- und Betroffenen-Interviews die ethnische, ökonomische, politische und kulturelle Situation in der Region dargestellt und analysiert. Karten, Tabellen und 50 Farbfotografien ergänzen den Band.

Romania is an interesting laboratory for the study of urbanization. Few countries in Europe have experienced such sharp social, cultural and economic discrimination between town and village, among regions and among ethnic groups. Profound political changes after the two world wars have added to the complexity of the urban transition. Within the span of a century, Romania was transformed from a semi-feudal society with a bonded peasantry, into a market economy largely based on subsistence agriculture and then into an industrialized socialist society. At the end of World War II, 70% of the population of Romania were dependent on agriculture. A major aim of the postwar regime was to break up social structure and transform the entire population into a homogeneous class, modelled on the urban workers. The domination of the peasantry and the weak tradition of the working class made this a complete social transformation. The postwar industrialization and the urbanization programmes should be seen in this context. The present study purports to analyze, interpret and describe urban transition in Romania; the transformation of the country from an agrarian society based on subsistence farming and a peasant culture to an industrialized socialist society. Dearth of data have limited this study to a largely explorative broad approach which covers the period from the late 19th century until 1980. Industrial, habitational, socio-economic and cultural aspects are all studied in separate chapters and regional and etnic aspects are examined in detail. In the final chapter, features of postwar urbanization in Romania, ascibed to the introduction of a centrally planned economy within a socialist ideology, are distinguished and discussed. The main data generated in the study are listed in an appendix to facilitate further research. / Diss. Stockholm : Handelshögsk.