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The Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the transparency and targeting of political advertising will enter into force from 2024. The regulation represents a set of regulations aimed at increasing accountability at European level for actors involved in electoral and political processes. It defines political advertising in a context where the ···
The 2020-2024 local political cycle is one year away and the authorities have yet to create a public database of over 46,000 local elected representatives, as they should. This would not only be a sign of transparency and a useful tool for the media and analysts, but would also allow checks on the extent ···
This research has the purpose of analysing different models of allocation of state subsidies across the EU member states and some other European states and to provide a more in-depth analysis of the Romanian model and its issues. The structure of the report aims to answer key questions regarding the approval, allocation, expenditure, management, transparency ···
In 2023 political parties will receive 258 million lei in subsidies. In the first six months of the year, the six parties entitled to the money according to the 2020 election results received 125 million lei and spent 118 million lei. The Permanent Electoral Authority (PEA), the institution that manages the funds, transferred 48.2 million ···
Caught between regulations interpreted inconsistently across the territory, difficult access to services and institutions which are inefficient even for the Romanian citizens, the Ukrainian refugees struggle to cope with change and are worried about what is coming after September. The problems of Ukrainian refugees in Romania. EFOR summarizes in this report the problems faced by ···
We were discussing here yesterday why it is important to understand and measure China’s influence in various countries, and why for us in Bucharest it is a priority to understand how it acts in Europe. This is exactly what we set out to do in the China Index project, designed and managed by a well-known ···
For us Europeans, Russia is the storm, but China is climate change, as the head of counterintelligence in Germany said the other day: the former causes short-term disruption, but goes away, while the latter is inexorable and will change everything, forever. It is true that a whole debate has been going on lately around the ···
Top Political Accounts January 2023-May 2023 Based on List Monitoring in Crowdtangle with politicians from the Republic of Moldova Source – Crowdtangle Narrative 1: The European Union accession – A threat to the pro-Russian establishment? The Pro-Russian opposition parties promote standard ex-soviet state Russian propaganda, personalized for the context of the Republic of Moldova. The ···
Expert Forum submitted comments to the Legal Committee of the Senate on the Legislative proposal for amending and supplementing Law 334/2006 on the financing of political parties and electoral campaigns, L313/2023. The initiative of the Social Democratic Party takes over most of the draft proposed by the Permanent Electoral Authority in 2022. Read all comments ···
How prepared are we, legally and institutionally, to cope with an energy crisis? Even if we somehow managed to “muddle through” during 2022, in fact, the region that is most exposed to Russia’s energy blackmail lags well behind the implementation of European directives and regulations. Regionally, Romania fares relatively well on paper – but that, ···
Empirical data shows that Romanian political finance has potentially become less corrupt since decision-makers increased the value of subsidies for political parties and introduce reimbursement of electoral expenses. In the same time, political parties started to spend high sums from these subsidies on propaganda, affecting the independence on the media market through non-transparent marketing, as ···
Overview of a Year of Aggression – February 2022-2023 ROMANIA ONLINE MONITORING Introduction With public support for the European Union’s support for Ukraine around 60%, Romania remains in the bottom quarter of EU Member States according to Eurobarometer of winter 2022. On the other hand, there is a general consensus that Kremlin’s propaganda was ···
Type of Project – Urgent needs April-June 2023 The integration of Ukrainian refugees in Romania is a challenge on many levels. On the one hand, access to services guaranteed by the temporary protection status is limited by the capacity and responsiveness of public institutions. For example, access to a family doctor for Ukrainians with chronic ···