Is Romania Ready for Cooperative Structures? Romania – Italy Comparative Study

The new European and global policy emphasis on creation and developing cooperativestructures in the agricultural sector as the best way to overcome the gaps between rural and urban. While northern countries talk about the reforming of the cooperative system and introducing newmanagement models for it, in south Europe the system still has great social and economic results. There are still countries, like Romania, where the system had to be started over many times in thelast century, which led to today ‘situation when the cooperative system is almost inexistent. The paper aims to analyze how much the Romanian rural area is prepared to integrate into itsway of functioning a cooperative system by comparing to Italy, a country with history close toRomania, but with a cooperative system as the base of agriculture