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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 ···
We focused mainly on two important dimensions of the public sector: the transfers of funds for local development, which are the main source of investment in public infrastructure at sub-national level in Romania and all over Europe; and public companies (State Owned Enterprises, SOEs). The distribution of investment funds in the territory (plus the subsequent ···
EFOR published PB # 61, Money and Politics – the links between public procurement and political parties. The report analyzes the extent to which national and European infrastructure funds are politicized and used as an clientelistic instrument. We analyzed millions of procurement procedures and decisions to allocate funds from the Romanian Operational Programs, including Regional, Transport ···
Today, a new edition of the School for Democracy has started, an Expert Forum program that aims to create an innovative learning environment for teachers who want to discover alternative and effective tools for educating and actively involving young people. The project includes a training seminar for 25 civic education and history teachers from gymnasium ···
Agenda Sessions Report and conclusions Recordings Photo gallery EFOR organized the international conference on Money and politics – linking public resources to the illicit financing of political parties on the 7th and 8th of September 2017, at the Athénée Palace Hilton Hotel, Diplomat Hall (1-3 Episcopiei, Bucharest). During the debate, we explored the link between ···
Kremlin plans to regain influence in CEE, and energy is just the right tool for this. This influence ranges from EU’s internal divisions on sanctions on Russia or energy policy, to organized crime in breakaway regions in Ukraine and Moldova. The West is simply unprepared for this unconventional war; but, if it understands what it ···
We believe that the raid of ANAF inspectors to the reputed RISE Project Investigative Journalism Platform has been an attempt to intimidate journalists. The context in which this ANAF “unannounced inspection” took place (Thursday, July 6, exactly the day when journalists announced the publication of a new episode of the series of revelations targeting the ···