EFOR is organising its major event for the current year: the launch of the annual policy report. We have two inevitable topics that will remain relevant throughout 2022: energy and political finance
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EFOR in 2021
In 2021 we published over 30 reports on a wide range of topics: from elections to PNRR, Saligny, justice or energy. And we have taken public positions on equally diverse topics: political subsidies, open data, infrastructure, health, justice, access to public information, the NGO sector and much more. We set out to make transparent the way the ···
Stop the arbitrary allocations of subsidies for political parties!
Update – 28 December 2021 The Save Romania Union challenged the budget law at the Constitutional Court. The CC decided that the budget law is constitutional, but the articles referring to the subsidies for PPUSL was suspended until Law 334/2006 is also amended accordingly. The signatories of this letter are protesting against the approval in ···
EFOR urges the government, the PEA and political leaders to reduce party subsidies
While the Ministry of Finance drafts the budget for 2022, EFOR called on the Government, the Permanent Electoral Authority and the leaders of the ruling political parties to reduce subsidies for the coming years and amend the legislation to increase the transparency and efficiency of the allocation and spending of these funds. To Mr. Nicolae-Ionel ···
Europe’s Vulnerability to Chinese Propaganda is Homegrown
A new form of Orientalism makes the West susceptible to propaganda narratives from China that ultimately aren’t even primarily intended for them. That Western societies are under pressure from Chinese propaganda is no news at all. What is less frequently appreciated is that our susceptibility to it stems from a long tradition of exoticizing the ···
What we don’t know about China?
Chinese prosperity is largely state propaganda. The myth of China’s effectiveness is beginning to fade. Details about the Chinese population’s rights and liberties as well as economic opportunities came to surface in recent years. China is investing heavily in innovative technologies, but the goal is to tighten monitoring and control of its people, NOT to ···
China Watch
Chinese communities in Romania, Bulgaria and Ukraine
The Chinese community in Romanian was, and probably still is, one of the biggest communities in Eastern Europe, second only to the one present in Hungary. Although the exact number of Chinese in Romania has always been disputed, the current official number is about 7600 legal residents,making it the third biggest immigrant community after Moldovans ···
Clientelism without reserves
In October 2021, the indices of clientelism in the allocation of reserve funds to the local administration reached the historical maximum of the last 15 years, according to EFOR calculations. In full pandemic and uncertainty, the government broke the country’s security wallet – the Reserve Fund – distributing for no reasonable reason to municipalities and ···
Analysis report
Policy brief on political representation of women in Romania
Womens’ representation in politics has become, during the last decade, a priority of the European Union and an important topic of the public agenda within the family of the European states. In the case of Romania, the indicators of women’s political representation are such as to reflect a substantial discrepancy as compared to Western Europe. ···
DEBATE What happens to the electoral reform?
A year has passed since the local and parliamentary elections and the electoral reform is stagnant in the Parliament. The drafting of the Electoral Code, one of the essential solutions that would help avoid potential chaos in the organisation of the four rounds of elections in 2024, has not advanced at all. The period between ···