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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 ···