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2013 ended as the previous year prefigured: with a major side-slip on justice and rule of law, determined by the political factors. The good news, if there are some, is that until now the institutions have resisted the assault led by an unbalanced political environment, without any efficient parliamentary opposition. The external political signals suggest ···
Read the report here (RO only). On Feb 6, at 11.00, at Hilton Hotel, Bucharest, together with our special guest Andrei Plesu, we launch EFOR’s annual report analyzing the most important developments from the last year and making forecasts. In brief, the year 2013 confirmed the public’s worst expectations from 2012: it ended in a ···
We discussed about cronyism in local government funding allocations and investments in Cluj, at the headquarters of localism, with the former chief negotiator Puscas and academics from UBB. We also spoke about Europeanism and about the determinants of corruption, which are mostly cultural and institutional. All local (remaining) media was present, and in the evening ···
(Trailer for conference) Download EFOR’s Annual Report 2013 here. Neither the amendment of the Constitution, nor the regionalization, nor any further amendment of the electoral system will change the way how the Romanian state works. Its problems lay elsewhere and must be tackled by their cause, not with palliatives that are time and energy consuming. ···
We organized a debate on a list of sensitive topics related to the quality of governance in nowadays Europe: current trends in strengthening rules of ethics in the administration; and how to assess political corruption with objective indicators. Our results come from two pilot projects carried out in four countries (Croatia, Moldova, Romania, Serbia). We believe our conclusions are ···
Trainings on FOIA for the Croatian NGO workers and public officials With the support of the UK Embassy in Zagreb, EFOR has setup and implemented a series of trainings for the NGO workers and public officials in Croatia on free access to public information and produced a guidebook with instructions and good practice for using ···