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This report examines party funding in a difficult election year that finally proved generous with political parties. We analyzed various sources related to the income and expenditure reports of parties and donors, to identify the main developments, but also to see who are contributors to party income and whether their own income allows them to ···
The overall aim of the project is to increase citizen participation in electoral processes in Europe. The project aims to empower European citizens to improve democratic electoral processes on local, national and European level and to protect the integrity of election processes in Europe as a fundamental human right of European citizens. The project initiates a ···
The Ministry of Justice sending the three draft bills to Parliament in their current form risks opening a Pandora’s box, since the end result and duration of the legislative process is difficult to anticipate. EFOR supports the idea that the solution must be pragmatic, focused on solving the overdue problems of the Romanian justice system, ···
Expert Forum invites you to the release event of the analysis report on the financing of political parties for 2020. The discussion will take place online, on May 26, starting at 11 AM, through Zoom. EFOR has analyzed the income and expenditure reports of political parties and other relevant data and will present the identified ···
The participation of third parties in political life is not regulated in Romania, the legislation establishing that only candidates and political parties can contribute to electoral campaigns. Third parties are those entities other than electoral competitors that can contribute to the election campaign with the resources to support a candidate or an electoral issue. Third ···
The current policy environment is particularly favourably disposed towards strengthening the European Union’s response to state capture vulnerabilities. In 2020 the EU introduced a range of new initiatives, including the European Rule of Law Mechanism, the European Democracy Action Plan, and a ew Security Strategy with a strong focus on anti-corruption. The report complements previous ···
The team leader for Anti-Corruption at the EU Commission Directorate-General of Migration and Home Affairs, Dr. Anitta M. Hipper, acknowledged the importance of having mechanisms to spot state capture, a subtle form of corruption, used by “over 60% of criminal networks” “Bulgaria is the country where the institutional environment is most vulnerable to state capture”, ···
This report outlines the findings from the pilot implementation of two integrated innovative monitoring methodologies: an index-based expert assessment of state capture pressure and vulnerabilities on sectoral level and an analysis of risks for corruption-related behaviour in public procurement through original “red-flags” indicators, based on linked “big data”. The pilot covers three economic sectors – ···
1. Project purpose The primary aim of this project is to promote European values such as the rule of law, democracy, transparency, press freedom, equality and solidarity across Eastern European Member States and in potential Candidate Countries. Furthermore, the project’s goal is to encourage participants to become active citizens and engage in the democratic process ···
37 companies in Bulgaria and 10 in Romania (compared to 3 in Spain and 0 in Italy) stand out in the procurement exposure per employee ratio, a red flag raised when companies with an insufficient number of employees win tenders that require a larger workforce. SceMaps initiative demonstrates how big data could be used ···