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EFOR has petitioned political parties and the Permanent Electoral Authority asking for transparency in the allocation and spending of public subsidies. The petition was supported by nearly 15,000 signatures. EFOR thanks to all those who supported the petition. The full text can be found below: To Nicolae Ionel Ciucă, President of PNL, Marcel Ciolacu, President ···
About the project The project seeks to enhance and develop the community of investigators in Romania to decrease the expansion of organized crime, corruption and financial crime groups and has the following objectives: to provide support to law enforcement, investigative media and civil society through skill-sharing sessions to develop support tools in order to diminish ···
The report analyzes the hiring procedures for the public health directorates (DSP) and the county health insurance departments (CASJ). The purpose of the analysis is to highlight the potential for politicization of the process. The analysis is based on data provided by FOIA requests by the National Health Insurance House (CNAS), the Ministry of Health ···
The Romanian government adopted the draft justice laws on the 24th of August 2022 and is in a hurry to adopt them in Parliament in less than a month, in a joint committee and possibly under an emergency procedure. The government thus hopes to lift the Cooperation and Verification Mechanism (CVM) this autumn. Not only ···
While Ukraine is militarily destroyed by the Russian invasion, Russian citizens can still do tourism and shopping in EU countries – which Russia has declared “unfriendly”. Far from being a radical measure, the suspension of Schengen tourist visas (type C) for Russian citizens is a moral and necessary measure. Here are the data and arguments. ···
Despite the generalized panic, the EU has a very strong hand against Russia when it comes to gas. In reality Russia cannot play the game of selective cuts for long: it simply cannot stop production without unbearable costs and without seriously damaging production capacity in the long run, it cannot consume more, store more and ···
Together with our colleagues from Dixi Group Ukraine, Watchdog.MD Moldova and World Experience for Georgia, Expert Forum participated in a comparative study on the transparency in the energy sector, as of 2021. One of the goals was to see to what extent EU membership contributes significantly or not for good governance in the sector, compared ···
EFOR has released its annual report on the financing of political parties in 2021, which analyzes the funds received and spent by parties, the activity of the Permanent Electoral Authority (PEA), access to information and includes recommendations for the improvement of identified issues. Read Policy brief no.140 . Data also available on www.banipartide.ro . Watch the recording of ···
Expert Forum invites you to the release event of the financing of political parties report for 2021. The discussion will take place online, on June 23, starting at 10 AM, on Zoom. EFOR has analyzed the political parties’ revenue and expenditure reports and other relevant data and will present statistics and the main conclusions. The ···
About the database The Electoral Recommendations Database (https://expertforum.ro/recomandari-electorale) contains recommendations or commitments regarding the electoral process and political financing, based on evaluations made by national or international organizations and institutions, which take into account agreements or other international documents to which Romania has adhered or ratified. The recommendations were made by Expert Forum, FiecareVot (a ···