o:2395 ROMANIAN COVERGENCE AND MACROECONOMIC PERSPECTIVE FROM EU MEMBERSHIP en In order to achieve optimism in the South East Europe, and for overcoming the pessimism that are dominant here, is need more work, more cooperation, meeting the criteria and rejoining in the EU. Everyone in the region sees the European integration process as crucial to the road to progress, peace and democracy. Everyone in the region sees the European integration process as crucial to the road to progress, peace and democracy. The opportunity to be part of the European family, where our civilization naturally belongs, is crucial to enable the region to move towards reconciliation and development. In this paper we analyze benefits and obstacles from Romanian EU membership, its convergence. Also, we make an estimation of macroeconomic variables thus getting the real economic situation for unemployment, growth, investment for twelve years membership in EU. Second international scientific conference "Challenges of tourism and business logistics in 21st century, ISCTBL, Stip, pp.331-338 EU, convergence, growth, investment, Romania, empirical estimations 1552100 978-608-244-693-6 2024-03-09T16:04:44.324Z 44 yes 46 Tatjana Boshkov Goce Delcev University of Stip, Faculty of tourism and business logistics 2019 46 Dushko Josheski Goce Delcev University of Stip, Faculty of tourism and business logistics 46 Žarko Rađenović Innvation Center, University of Niš application/pdf 652428 https://phaidrani.ni.ac.rs/o:2395 no yes 18 70 1556237 18A15