Europe is in the middle of an energy crisis, exacerbated in large part by skyrocketing gas costs. Renewable energy is critical in this environment for decreasing Europe’s reliance on imported energy; boosting renewables in Europe requires a ‘New Energy Compact’—a coordinated effort throughout Europe to build more renewable energy capacity. The purpose of this research is to examine the structure of renewable energy production in Romania between 2010 and 2020, as well as the green employment produced by the renewable energy sector in Romania between 2010 and 2019. Using the Markov chain approach, it was predicted that in 2025, the hydropower industry’s employees would account for the biggest proportion of the overall average number of workers engaged in the renewable energy production sector in Romania (74.68%). Solar energy production employees will account for 14.31% of the average number of workers in the renewable energy production sector, biomass energy production employees will account for 5.8%, and wind energy production employees will account for 5.2% of the average number of workers in the green energy sector.

In this period of extreme changes in our society, issues related to the health and well-being of citizens are considered essential for the future of a united and prosperous Europe. Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) at EU level by 2030 requires hard work done in a transformative way in order to implement a set of coherent, evidence-informed policies that address health, well-being and all their determinants throughout the course of life and across all sectors of government and society. The objective of this paper is to assess the stage of fulfillment of all SDG targets in relation to health and well-being at EU level, based on the current trend of each indicator, for each EU member country. Based on the Eurostat SDG data set for 2007–2018, the individual trends were forecast using the AAA (Holt-Winters) version of the exponential smoothing (ETS) algorithm. The research results are surprising, on the one hand showing the possibility that some targets will be reached, but also indicating that a large percentage of targets will not be reached if the current trend is continued, especially due to disruptive change generated by the current pandemic. There is a need to increase the involvement of all member states, but also ensure a deeper involvement at the level of EU institutions, to provide full support for meeting the targets proposed by the 2030 Agenda, ensuring prosperity and health for all European citizens, and becoming a model for all the states of the world.

Do accountants clearly understand the benefits and challenges of using AI? Do they perceive AI as a threat? The adoption of AI in the accounting field has increased significantly in the last few years. Since the techniques continue to evolve, more companies will integrate these solutions to facilitate the accounting processes. Therefore, the accountants’ skills should be adapted to efficiently use these solutions and continue to provide valuable support. This study explores the perception of accounting practitioners regarding the most important benefits and challenges of using AI-based technologies and analyses whether AI is being perceived as a threat that might impact employability. The data were collected during June–August 2021 using a questionnaire addressed to accounting practitioners from Romania. The exploratory research was conducted by statistically analysing the data collected. The results highlight that the practitioners have a clear understanding regarding the main benefits and challenges associated with the use of AI-based solutions in accounting processes, and AI is not perceived as a threat to employability; however, practitioners acknowledge that skills transformation is required and are willing to undergo the changes. By providing a glimpse of the main drivers that encourage accounting practitioners to embrace AI, employers, professional bodies and academia can address the main concerns and continue to support the practitioners in adapting their skills.

This paper aims at providing a different approach to international migration analysis, beyond classical models previously proposed by specialized literature. Chaos theory is getting more and more applied into macroeconomics once traditional linear models or even previous dynamic analysis become less suitable. Modern science sees chaos as unpredictable evolution, maybe even disorder. Still, chaos has got its own rules and can describe many dynamic phenomena within our world. Thus, we test whether international migration data falls under the rules of chaos and whether recent developments within the “European migration crisis” (the total daily migration inflows towards the coasts of Italy, by sea, from January 2014 to April 2017) could be described as chaotic.

The big companies in Romania and not only, have been facing a series of challenges for several years. We mention here a very important stage, the digitization transition, here we are talking about RPA - Robotic Process Automation, but at the same time changing the versions of integrated ERP systems - moving to the new trends in terms of databases - in-memory - SAP HANA. The deadline for this changing is 2027, in regards with SAP solutions, but the preparations for such a change are extremely laborious and involves mixed teams of engineers and economists. That's why the choice to create auxiliary interfaces is one of the options widely circulated in the market, by SAP clients. Moreover, bringing automation, using RPA, is another option to be considered. In this article, the authors performed a study on possible solutions, among three large companies, in the area of oil & gas, pharma and paints (from production to sales and distributions), which they chose as a strategy for the next years. The study was based on certain questionnaires sent to SAP customers, regarding the choice of using interfaces, but also on their own developments of prototyping interfaces.

The last period has changed a lot the way of thinking of the companies that use ERP type systems as - core systems. The worldwide pandemic, in the last year, has greatly accelerated the adoption of new technologies - in this case - RPA - Robotic Process Automation. Thus, more and more companies have adopted the part of re-modeling existing economic processes, introducing steps that can be performed by software robots. Perhaps, this has been originally thought to replace human labor, but in some places, it did not prove as such, so the authors of this article conducted research aiming to highlight several critical factors residing in the implementation projects, which finally highlighted a record of the benefits but also of the risks that these companies decided to assume. The case studies were carried out in the first 4 companies in Romania (subsidiaries of some external companies), aiming to point out how many steps could be automated, for two frequently used economic processes - O2C (order-to-cash: sales division) and P2P (procure-to-pay: procurement division), using UiPath tools (development of the bots), near to the ERP - SAP computer system, and if the use of automation was useful.