Economic Freedom as a Fundamental Economic Right in the Light of the Integration Process of the Republic of Moldova into the European Union

Abstract

The new exigencies of social development have generated an increased concern for economic human rights, reflected in the desire to join economic communities and the imperative of consistency between the democratic principles of the Member States and the economic, social and political principles of the candidate countries. Economic activity, comprising the sum of all actions taken by people to satisfy their needs, influenced both by changes in their needs and by the availability of resources, is the catalyst for accession to these economic communities. Economic freedom, representing the ability of particular subjects to carry out their economic activities within a framework that allows them to act autonomously and make decisions about resource use, production, trade and investment without excessive intervention by government or other external agents, is the legal foundation of prosperous economic activity