CONSIDERATIONS REGARDING THE PROCEDURE FOR THE ACCESS TO PUBLIC INTEREST INFORMATION IN ROMANIA AND BULGARIA
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.15837/aijjs.v7i2.511Keywords:
access to information of public interest, human rights, democracyAbstract
By means of this article, we undertake to perform an analysis of the procedureregarding the citizens’ access to public interest information in Romania and in Bulgaria, thus
attempting to illustrate the common points and the interaction elements occurring between
them, as both states joined the European Union in the same period.
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