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Context – Why do we care about politicians’ communication online? The National Coalition for Romania came to power about 3 months before Russia invaded Ukraine. Since then, controversial legislation that led to democratic setbacks has become common. Support for Ukraine has seemed to be the coalition’s only indisputable position.Externally, Romania is a reliable partner of ···
Ukraine’s resilience and the renewed sense of purpose in the liberal West With a winter milder than usual and almost over, a new sense of unity and confidence is visible these days in what Putin and his propagandists call “the collective West”. There is a relative stabilization on the energy markets after a very turbulent ···
EFOR analyzed the expenses made by political parties from subsidies in 2022. Six parties received 256 million lei, of which they spent 184 million. PSD received 98 million lei, and PNL 83 million. USR received 45 million lei, and AUR almost 20 million lei. PMP and Pro Romania, which obtained over 4% of the votes, but did ···
In order to identify the needs of the civil society in Ukraine, and to further advocate on support of the ideas that arose as part of the research, a survey was conducted among various civil society organizations from four regions of Ukraine in cooperation with Expert Forum (EFOR): Odesa, Khmelnytskyi, Kharkiv, Kyiv city & region. ···
In September 2022, EFOR analysed the draft justice laws as adopted by the Romanian Government at the end of August and identified the most problematic provisions. EFOR concluded then that aside from not solving the problems generated by the 2017-2018 justice reforms, the draft laws return the justice system to pre-accession standards. On the 17th ···
The report analyzes the hiring procedures for the public health directorates (DSP) and the county health insurance departments (CASJ). The purpose of the analysis is to highlight the potential for politicization of the process. The analysis is based on data provided by FOIA requests by the National Health Insurance House (CNAS), the Ministry of Health ···
The Romanian government adopted the draft justice laws on the 24th of August 2022 and is in a hurry to adopt them in Parliament in less than a month, in a joint committee and possibly under an emergency procedure. The government thus hopes to lift the Cooperation and Verification Mechanism (CVM) this autumn. Not only ···
While Ukraine is militarily destroyed by the Russian invasion, Russian citizens can still do tourism and shopping in EU countries – which Russia has declared “unfriendly”. Far from being a radical measure, the suspension of Schengen tourist visas (type C) for Russian citizens is a moral and necessary measure. Here are the data and arguments. ···
Despite the generalized panic, the EU has a very strong hand against Russia when it comes to gas. In reality Russia cannot play the game of selective cuts for long: it simply cannot stop production without unbearable costs and without seriously damaging production capacity in the long run, it cannot consume more, store more and ···