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It’s time to learn from others’ mistakes: sooner or later, energy reform should be done and completed. Sooner and cogently is preferable to later on with oversized costs. See how is to be done in the report attached here (Romanian only): Pol-Brief-20 Given that energy is a sensitive subject, price increases can overthrow a government. ···
An unexpected and heated debate has occured on FB just at the New Year’s Eve, between two well known Romanian politicians and fiscal experts: Ionut Popescu and Gabriel Biris (see here). Apparently the current EFOR team is credited for launching in Romania in 2003 the debate that has led to the adoption of the flat ···
EFOR, the Association of Private Pension Funds and the Department of Sociology of the University of Bucharest have debated Seven scenarios for 2030 for the future of pensions in a roundtable that took place on Nov 20. Keynote speakers: Georgeta Bratu, secretary of state in the Ministry of Labor; Ileana Ciutan, president of the National Pension Fund; Ionut ···
Together with the Metropolitan Zone Oradea, we organized an open debate on October 29 on what can local authorities do to strengthen their own local revenue base and mitigate the economic crisis. Our partners presented the success story of Eurobusiness Park Oradea. Mr. Marcel Bolos, State Secretary, Ministry of Regional Development, Mr. Ilie Bolojan, Mayor ···
Since its beginnings EFOR has set as an important goal for itself to forge partnerships with the business community in order to fight together for a cleaner and more responsible government, transparency in public budgets and a more open and predictable policy process. We do this by monitoring various public sectors and organizing public debates ···
This is the fourth letter to Brussels warning on the slippages from the rule of law in Romania, as the USL coalition changed the leadership of the Parliament chambers, the Ombudsman, and impeached the President. You can find here the text of the letter. The letter was signed by 11 NGOs (EFOR, FH Romania, GDS, ···
This is the third warning in less than two months on the drift towards a non-democratic regime in Romania. This time, we wrote a letter to the President of the European Commission Barroso, to the Vice President of the EC, Viviane Reding, to the Commissioner for Home Affairs, Cecilia Malstrom, and to the Secretary General ···
MPs initiated in Parliament yet another piece of legislation to eliminate inconvenient NGOs. This is done in truly discretionary fashion by a trick: they picked some frequent NGO names (“institute”, “agency”, “Romanian”) for alleged confusions with public bodies. This is yet again against EU principles as a threat to the freedom of association, and follows ···
The danger is visible that the new Prime Minister, Victor Ponta, may step in the footprints of his Hungarian counterpart, Viktor Orban, by purging the administration and the public media of independent professionals and critical voices, and engineering a super-majority in the next Parliament. We are very concerned because the new Cabinet has managed to ···