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June 23 rd 2021, 11:00 CET (17:00 in Taipei; 12:00 in Bucharest) The potential for cooperation between the Eastern Europe/Black Sea countries and the Republic of China (Taiwan) is underexploited and the country’s visibility in our region is low. This is unfortunate because we share important values, like democratic pluralism and the freedom of speech. ···
The overall aim of the project is to increase citizen participation in electoral processes in Europe. The project aims to empower European citizens to improve democratic electoral processes on local, national and European level and to protect the integrity of election processes in Europe as a fundamental human right of European citizens. The project initiates a ···
The Ministry of Justice sending the three draft bills to Parliament in their current form risks opening a Pandora’s box, since the end result and duration of the legislative process is difficult to anticipate. EFOR supports the idea that the solution must be pragmatic, focused on solving the overdue problems of the Romanian justice system, ···
In March 2021, the Ministry of Justice launched for public debate the draft Law on the protection of whistleblowers, transposing Directive (EU) 2019/1937 on the protection of persons who report breaches of Union law. The deadline for transposing the Directive is 17th of December 2021. EFOR sent the Ministry of Justice its position and recommendations ···
1. Project purpose The primary aim of this project is to promote European values such as the rule of law, democracy, transparency, press freedom, equality and solidarity across Eastern European Member States and in potential Candidate Countries. Furthermore, the project’s goal is to encourage participants to become active citizens and engage in the democratic process ···
In Romania, the public administration produces valuable data, but it is lost because no one collects it to monitor and improve public policy processes. For example, during the pandemic, the police applied sanctions, but we do not know exactly to whom and for what, because there was no interest in keeping a detailed record. This ···
EFOR monitors China’s influence in the Black Sea Countries, with a focus on Romania, Bulgaria, Moldova, Ukraine and Georgia. While less conspicuous than Russia, China is increasingly present in our region through various channels and political formats. We will report on all these. Europe’s Vulnerability to Chinese Propaganda is Homegrown A new form of ···
In 2020 we worked hard, and it seems that the pandemic provided us with a lot of topics. We published 27 reports, more than a quarter of the total number of reports published by EFOR so far. We observed local and parliamentary elections, held several public debates on organizing elections during the pandemic, launched the ···
Expert Forum (EFOR) is pleased to invite you to an international debate about the effects of COVID-19 pandemic on the election monitoring activity. The purpose of the event is to exchange experience and good practice on how to organize the election observation and to better understand how some of the countries that already organized elections coped ···
