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The report analyzes incomes and expenditures of political parties related to subsidies from the first 3 months of the year 2024 and the issues related to the lack of transparency during the pre-campaign period. Read the full report (Romanian). Read the report in editable format (Romanian). Interactive graphs are available at www.banipartide.ro/subventii Section dedicated ···
2024 is the year we redefine the European Union and the Romania we want to live in. Elections across the EU, together with our ability to hold politicians to account, will significantly influence the policies and institutions that will shape the continent’s development up to 2035 and beyond to 2050. We face many challenges, including ···
Political parties, electoral alliances, and independent candidates could submit nominations until April 10. For the 2024 elections, 15 parties/alliances and 7 independent candidates registered. The deadline for announcing the final nominations is April 29. EFOR has analyzed the data available up to this point on the Central Electoral Bureau (CEB) website. This report does not ···
Expert Forum analyzed the draft of the emergency ordinance and submitted comments to the Ministry of the Interior, some related to the context in which the normative act is initiated, and others related to specific legislative aspects. Below we present the issues problems we have identified with this legislative path. EFOR has observed that at ···
Politicians cited in support of merging the elections the fact that this mechanism is also used by other European countries. Initially, Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu gave the example of Ireland and Belgium, and later declared that there are 9 countries in this situation. EFOR has already criticized the merging of local and European parliamentary elections, ···
EFOR has launched two analysis reports, which illustrate how money was spent on political and electoral advertising between 2019 and 2023, via Facebook and Google, as well as what were the main themes circulated by political parties and politicians in the last year. Read the report on political topics Online Politics – January November 2023 See ···
EFOR has released two analysis reports, which illustrate how money was spent on political and electoral advertising between 2019 and 2023, via Facebook and Google, as well as what were the main themes circulated by political parties and politicians in the last year. At the same time, we also launched a section dedicated to this ···
In 2023 there was no significant improvement regarding the transparency of political parties in the spending of public funds, and neither was there more responsibility coming from parties themselves. Their contracts with press entities are just as ambiguous, hence the only known details in the public space can be found in a relatively small number ···
EFOR analyzed the legislation that will be used for the organization of the European Parliamentary elections and drew some conclusions about the issues it brings. Overall, the legislative framework is not uniform and clear. Law 33/2007 is very outdated, strongly at odds with modernized legislation and technological innovations or structural changes that have taken place ···
There will soon be two years since the first wave of Ukrainian refugees started to arrive in Romania and many of their problems are still to be solved. Their integration on the labor market is supposed to be a priority, but this proves to be hard, while the authorities know surprisingly little about these people. ···