We want to live in a democratic, modern and normal country. And it’s not just the task of the Government or the politicians. We have to make government more transparent and rational, by showing that we understand what they do and react when they are wrong.
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Youth Vote Matters! is a project dedicated to encouraging youth in Romania to vote by making informed decisions about their candidates and representative democracy. Unfortunately, Romania’s educational system fails systemically to provide youth with the necessary instruments they need to become involved citizens. The curricula for high-school students does not include notions of democracy, ···
Did you ever think how political parties attract voters? – In Romania, election manipulation through flour and oil packages is illegal and giving party jackets is inefficient. One answer: expanding their cash box through subsidies from 2 millions of Euros in 2008, to 37 millions in 2018 ! But there is also another way: the ···
EFOR hosted for one week a mixt delegation from Armenia, including public officials, academics, journalists and civil society, in a joint project Caucasus Institute-ExpertForum. We organized meetings with relevant public figures, in Bucharest and Cluj, where out guests learned about the post-Communist transition in Romania, the process of EU integration, the current political debates and ···
SceMaps is designed to contribute to the fight against corruption in the EU by delivering impact on multiple levels and providing for long-term sustainability. The project aims at tackling anti-corruption deficiencies in high-risk EU member states (MSs) by developing and implementing an integrated risk assessment tool for estimating state capture and monitoring of anti-corruption policies ···
April 11 2019, 16.00 Location: Permanent Representation of the Czech Republic to the EU (Rue Caroly 15, 1050 Brussels) The report WAR BY OTHER MEANS. Kremlin’s Energy Policy as a Channel of Influence. A comparative assessment will be launched in Brussels on the 11th of April 2019 at the at 16.30 at the Permanent Representation of the ···
The following report analyzes the capacity (governance and performance) of energy (gas and electricity) regulators in Moldova, Georgia and Ukraine and “benchmarks” them to the Romanian energy regulator. Energy regulators in countries that follow EU’s Energy Directives of the Third Energy Package – EU members, as well as members of the Energy Community and countries ···
Can we measure corruption and capture in state-owned companies, beyond impressions, opinion polls and indicators of compliance with governance standards? Is there a way in which we can gauge the level of resources that are misused or simply wasted, can we compare across countries and in time, and is there a correlation between the governance ···
EFOR released the annual report on February 19th. We debated, together with more than 120 experts, representatives of public institutions and embassies, as well as journalists on clientelism policy, the performance of state-owned companies, appointment of the boards of regulators, as well as the effects of Moldovan propaganda on governance. Full report: www.expertforum.ro/raportul-anual-2018. Video: the ···
The main goal of this project is to develop a set of monitoring and analysis instruments, encourage critical thinking in media consumption and carry out a number of pilot workshops / interventions, in Romania and Moldova, aimed at exposing and de-constructing the mechanisms of propaganda / fake news and increase media literacy, in the specific ···
CC-LIFT contributes to the development of watchdog mechanisms in Romania, Moldova and Georgia regarding the clientelistic allocation of funds towards the local communities. The project aims to improve the effectiveness, transparency and accountability of governance by enabling local civil society organizations to oversee the budgetary development procedures and participate in debates on resource allocations by ···