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The decision of the United States and the European Union to impose sanctions on Russia in 2014, and the consequent renewal of sanctions, have had significant implications for the international economy and Eastern Europe, given that they are, perhaps, more far-reaching than previous sanctions regimes. EFOR has organised a conference which brought together key stakeholders ···
FiecareVot coalition ispleased to invite you to a press conference in order to present the preliminary conclusions after observing the 2nd round of the presidential elections on November 22-24. We will present the first centralized data from the field observers regarding the organization of the electoral process, postal voting, the voting process in Romania and ···
The first round of the presidential election took place in a calm and organized environment, and fundamental rights and freedoms were respected. The process was generally efficiently managed by the Permanent Electoral Authority (AEP), the Central Electoral Bureau (BEC) and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MAE). The election administration met the deadlines established by the ···
Did you ever think how political parties attract voters? – In Romania, election manipulation through flour and oil packages is illegal and giving party jackets is inefficient. One answer: expanding their cash box through subsidies from 2 millions of Euros in 2008, to 37 millions in 2018 ! But there is also another way: the ···
What is PNDL in Romania was the program “Good Roads for Moldova” for the government in Chişinău: discretionary purse in anticipation of the general elections of February 2019. In fact, the micro-targeting was even more sophisticated and perverse than parties are able to do in Romania, but the problem of systemic clientelism – discretionary use ···
We asked the Catalan mr Josep Borrell, would-be Minister of Foreign Affairs of the EU, about his views on Russia and China. Because we really care about these matters here, in Eastern Europe. No answer yet but we encourage the Euro MPs and the public to keep sending him the questions. You too can sign ···
Expert Forum is pleased to invite you to a debate on political clientelism and its effects on elections and good governance. Together with partners from the Republic of Moldova (Expert Grup) and Georgia (Institute for Development of Freedom of Information) we created an explanatory framework for the clientelistic behaviour in the region. The profile ···
FiecareVot Coalition has observed the EU elections and 26th of May referendum with more than 1200 observers, in polling stations organized in Romania and abroad. The report includes information obtained from 627 polling stations for the opening procedure, 2547 polling stations for the voting day and 577 polling stations for the closing and vote counting. ···
EFOR hosted for one week a mixt delegation from Armenia, including public officials, academics, journalists and civil society, in a joint project Caucasus Institute-ExpertForum. We organized meetings with relevant public figures, in Bucharest and Cluj, where out guests learned about the post-Communist transition in Romania, the process of EU integration, the current political debates and ···
Therese Pearce Laanela is the head of elections department at International Idea. She has a long experience in the electoral field for more than 20 years and is a founding staff member of IDEA. She also worked for UNDP or IFES, was Deputy Director for the Democratization Program at the Carter Center, and was involved ···