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. Get involved, contribute and support this effort.
Expert Forum has joined the American Councils for International Education in Romania to bring you Kennedy Academy for Students, a program which seeks to empower 20 young Romanian student NGO leaders aged 18-26 to better lead their organizations, increase their English language ability, learn more about U.S. democratic values, and gain the necessary life-long tools to ···
The PSD-ALDE government uses the controversial referendum to amend the Constitution as a permanent populist instrument for electoral campaigning that constantly stirs the spirits. The party leaders have successfully leveraged the subject and threatened on several occasions that they would hold the referendum. Law 3/2000, which regulates the organization of the referendum, has been a ···
The local elections in Chisinau, held in two rounds on 20 May and 3 June 2018, resulted in the victory of the representative of the extra-parliamentary opposition, the leader of Political Party “Platform Dignity and Truth” Andrei Nastase. He gained 129.432 votes which represents 52.57% of the votes. These results were invalidated in the court ···
For Universal Erasmus ! Youth at the heart of the democratic rebuilding of Europe In his speech at La Sorbonne on September 26th, the President of the French Republic endorsed the proposition that “by 2024, half of an age group must have spent at least six months in another European country before reaching 25.” Many young ···
Expert Forum observed the first round of local elections in Moldova, held on the 20th of May 2018 in seven localities. Most voters were concentrated in the municipalities of Chisinau and Balti. EFOR team consisted of four short-term electoral observers who covered polling stations in Chisinau, including the suburbs. More than 20 polling stations from ···
The following report analyzes the capacity (governance and performance) of energy (gas and electricity) regulators in Moldova, Georgia and Ukraine and “benchmarks” them to the Romanian energy regulator. Energy regulators in countries that follow EU’s Energy Directives of the Third Energy Package – EU members, as well as members of the Energy Community and countries ···
The 2018 report on Romania was written by Laura Ștefan, anticorruption expert, former director in the Romanian Ministry of Justice, and international expert on rule of law; and Sorin Ioniță, expert in public administration reform and development and an associate lecturer at Maastricht School of Management (MSM) and Babeş-Bolyai University (Cluj); and Septimius Pârvu, expert in ···
The public press in Romania has been under constant pressure from politicians and has become increasingly dependent on the national budget over the past two years. In the private media companies the situation is similar. We analyze the most important developments related to political involvement in the Romanian press and their effects. More details in ···
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 ···
The map and the attached reports show which governments, at what time and with what financial instrument have been more clientelistic: we built an index of political clientelism that correlates the amounts allocated to the mayoral affiliation. The map shows the allocations and transfers to municipalities and county councils from Reserve and Intervention Funds and ···