We want to live in a democratic, modern and normal country. And it’s not just the task of the Government or the politicians. We have to make government more transparent and rational, by showing that we understand what they do and react when they are wrong.
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Expert Forum submitted comments to the Legal Committee of the Senate on the Legislative proposal for amending and supplementing Law 334/2006 on the financing of political parties and electoral campaigns, L313/2023. The initiative of the Social Democratic Party takes over most of the draft proposed by the Permanent Electoral Authority in 2022. Read all comments ···
How prepared are we, legally and institutionally, to cope with an energy crisis? Even if we somehow managed to “muddle through” during 2022, in fact, the region that is most exposed to Russia’s energy blackmail lags well behind the implementation of European directives and regulations. Regionally, Romania fares relatively well on paper – but that, ···
Empirical data shows that Romanian political finance has potentially become less corrupt since decision-makers increased the value of subsidies for political parties and introduce reimbursement of electoral expenses. In the same time, political parties started to spend high sums from these subsidies on propaganda, affecting the independence on the media market through non-transparent marketing, as ···
Read the full report (Romanian only). The updated database is available on www.banipartide.ro. The report includes various statistics not found in the summary below, including lists of individuals or companies who contributed to the parties’ finances as well as statistics regarding beneficiaries of contracts from political parties. In order to better understand the Romanian ···
Overview of a Year of Aggression – February 2022-2023 ROMANIA ONLINE MONITORING Introduction With public support for the European Union’s support for Ukraine around 60%, Romania remains in the bottom quarter of EU Member States according to Eurobarometer of winter 2022. On the other hand, there is a general consensus that Kremlin’s propaganda was ···
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 ···
In theory, Romania had all the data to get through last year’s energy crisis without painful implications for citizens or the private sector. In March 2022, we already had the government’s commitment to cap prices for a year, along with other capping and compensation measures adopted during the year, while the industry was supported by ···
China’s influence in Romania – and 81 other states: an index with 99 dimensions grouped in 9 sections. Why am I not surprised that the biggest attraction for the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in Romania is among the academic elite and domestic politics (the latter with caveats, that it is mostly about people from intelligence, ···
EFOR released the only database with all the candidates for the Romanian elections. The database is part of the BaniPartide platform and includes candidates from 2004 to 2020 who participated in local, parliamentary, presidential and European parliamentary elections. By-elections are not included. The platform is developed for journalists, investigators or any other person interested in data related to ···