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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 ···
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 ···
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 ···
Kremlin plans to regain influence in CEE, and energy is just the right tool for this. This influence ranges from EU’s internal divisions on sanctions on Russia or energy policy, to organized crime in breakaway regions in Ukraine and Moldova. The West is simply unprepared for this unconventional war; but, if it understands what it ···
Many myths and scandals have been produced during the past years around the discretionary allocation of funds from the government to the local administrations. It has been said that some have been favoured, that the previous ones have been excessively clientelistic and the current government is just fixing the injustices, that the mayors coming from ···