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An EFOR-ARP opinion poll provides new data on social media consumption and Romanians’ trust in social networks. Here are a few conclusions: Television remains the dominant source of information in terms of trust Among platforms, Facebook remains dominant, while TikTok is popular among nationalists and young people in rural areas There is a major difference ···
Expert Forum continues their series of analyses regarding the spending of subsidy finances by monitoring the mandatory transparency notices, in accordance with EU Regulation 2024/900 regarding political advertising (TTPA). Although European law promises to barring clarity regarding party spending on media and propaganda, the conclusion is that a portion of these expenditures remains impossible to ···
The report analyzes political party financing in 2025, against the backdrop of the Permanent Electoral Authority’s announcement of a broader reform of legislation governing political parties, election campaigns, and the institution’s operations. Although 2025 did not reach the exceptional level of 2024, when campaign reimbursements and subsidies exceeded one billion lei, revenues remained high compared ···
Monitoring Report: April–May 2026 Authors: Mădălina Voinea (Digital Programs Coordinator, Expert Forum), Vlad Adamescu (Co-Chair, Center for Democracy and Good Governance), Monirul Hassan (Independent Researcher, Computer Science) FULL REPORT HERE 1. Context: Romania’s Political Crisis, the Digital Media Landscape, and Inauthentic Campaigns as Information Pollution In a period of political crisis, Romanian TikTok feeds ···
With an estimated 1.3 million people, the Romanian diaspora constitutes one of the largest European immigrant communities in the UK, which also remains a top destination for Romanian migrants. However, the same conditions that facilitate migration can simultaneously increase the risk of exploitation, making human trafficking a frequent co- occurring phenomenon. As Romania continues to ···
In recent years, Romania has developed a legal and institutional framework for the recovery of criminal proceeds and instrumentalities. Money laundering is now criminalised as a standalone offence, and several types of confiscation are regulated, including extended confiscation. In the administrative sphere, Romania has introduced the confiscation of unjustified wealth of public officials and a ···
Wednesday, 11 March 2026, 10:00 AM – Aula Magna, BCU. Democracy and Civil Society in Eastern Europe: Where We Come From and What Will Become of Us in These Turbulent Times. As at the beginning of every year, EFOR released its report on the most significant recent developments. This year’s edition focused on the fate ···
Justice is a public service and any reform of the judicial system must start from this principle. Discussions on judicial reform cannot be held behind closed doors with only representatives of the judicial system. As we requested every time that changes have been made in the field of justice, reform must be accompanied by serious ···
Author: Madalina Voinea Credits: Context, PROMPT Following the elections in the Republic of Moldova, we are seeing surprising reactions in the public sphere regarding the apparent performance of Vasile Costiuc’s Democracy at Home Party, a party that polls show to be below the 5% parliamentary threshold in the Republic of Moldova, somewhere between 1.8-3%. We ···
The infrastructure of an information war 93 million views and nearly 10,000 posts between September 1 and 23 Data source: Lists monitored on the FACT platform Data Credits from investigations of: Context.ro, ExpertForum.ro, Watchdog.md, Promo-LEX, PROMPT , DFR LAB -ATLANTIC COUNCIL Authors: Mădălina Voinea Contributors: Sorin Ioniță, Atilla Biro, Septimius Pârvu, Daniel Timofte, Mihaela Tănase, ···
A new EFOR booklet showing how Russia and China seek to discredit Eastern Europe’s democratic transformation after 1990. By reframing transition as failure and fueling “nostalgia propaganda,” these narratives aim to undermine institutions, sow distrust, and weaken the liberal order in our region. The booklet explores how politics, the economy, NATO, and memory itself became ···
This report’s monitoring exercise confirms and deepens findings from earlier Expert Forum monitoring for FACT-HUB.EU, which have documented coordinated disinformation operations in Moldova. Among our recent conclusions: (i) that pro-Russian narratives are being spread through both overt channels (e.g. political actors, media outlets) and covert ones (fake or anonymous social media accounts), (ii) that online ···
Expert Forum analyzed the financing of political parties in 2024. And it was not an easy task, especially since it was the richest year in the history of political parties. The state paid for reimbursements for electoral campaigns, as well as for annual subsidies to political parties, over a billion lei, from public money. We ···