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We continue the series of debates “De ce eu ?”, started in Romania with a series of three screenings that will take place in December in the Republic of Moldova. The film will be screened at: Cahul – December 8, 18:00, State University “Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu” (Independence Square str., No. 1), Chisinau – December 9, ···
Around the world, the need to protect and support whistleblowers has never been greater. Even as their disclosures are leading to more corrective actions within governments and corporations, whistleblowers continue to suffer from retaliation, threats, fines and criminal prosecution. In Southeast Europe, a new initiative has been launched to fight for the rights of employees ···
Fairpress.eu portal went live on the 8th July 2014 with initial traffic expectations being far exceed. Over the first 12 month period, we received a total number of 64.617 Sessions and 105.327 Pageviews. 47.542 Users were/are actively engaged with our portal. 8.595 people have liked Fairpress Facebook Page and 371.163 people were reached by our ···
The signatory organizations, members of the Initiative for a Clean Justice, greet the Romanian Government’s decision of making public the drafts of the first two laws on public procurement. At the same time, the signatory organizations demand a 60 days extension for public debate. The current time frame for public consultation, of only 10 days, ···
Expert Forum, in partnership with the Rule of Law South East Europe Program of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation and the British Council opened a new call for School for Democracy which will take place between 31st August and 4th September 2015, in Sinaia. The School for Democracy addresses a number of 18 gymnasium and ···
11 NGOs request the resignation of Prime Minister Ponta and are asking the Ombudsman to appeal to the Constitutional Court the 26 ordinances hidden in a single emergency ordinance. Today, APADOR-CH and ten other NGOs requested the Ombudsman to notify the Constitutional Court on the Emergency Ordinance no. 2/2015, enabling the Government to make changes ···
Friday, 13.03.2015, 2.30 PM American Corner Bucharest, National Library of Romania 22 Unirii Blvd., District 3, 1st floor, E wing, Room 01-03. Following the 2014 presidential elections, the need to implement a remote voting system became even more obvious. The preferences of the political parties are different: some opted for vote by mail, while ···
Since 2014, EFOR upheld the need for a Social Security Number verification system run by electoral authorities, in order to avoid multiple votes. During the November 2014 presidential elections, the phenomenon of organized transportation of voters by political parties reached a significant spread, with places where up to 400% of the people voted on additional ···
Today, March 5th, EFOR took part in the debate organized by the Liberal Party on the seizing of ill-gotten goods. At the end of the conference, as a consequence of the question raised by EFOR, Finance Minister Darius Valcov publicly promised that, by the end of next week, ANAF will publish a detailed report on ···
The main winner of the political migration was the Social Democrat Party (PSD): a massive benefit, PSD gathering 79% of mayors who migrated i.e. 436 of them. Local councillors have generally followed the same trend of re-affiliation as mayors. Tariceanu’s non-party is set-up de facto in local administration and gets from zero to 34 mayors; UNPR jumps from ···