A GENERAL PRESENTATION OF THE RESTRUCTURING AND DESTRUCTURING OF THE MINING INDUSTRY IN EUROPE

The mining industry has been involved in a series of changes of the fiscal, administrative and monetary policies, implemented as part of economic restructuring in most countries of the world, implicitly in Europe. With the development of capitalism, the state mining industry underwent significant transformations, either economically or technologically, but also socially and communityly. In the developing countries of Europe, the disappearance of state monopolies as a consequence of the globalization process has opened the path to a competitive mining industry. Due to the economic impact this restructuring, the human communities that have developed around the mines have been deeply affected. The present paper presents the restructuring, or, as the case may be, the destruction of the mining sector and the mining communities, giving concrete examples from Eastern European countries such as Poland and Romania