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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 ···
Even though in 2012 we experienced an attempt of result manipulation by decimating the electoral lists, in 2014 the target changed. The 16% of voters living abroad were discouraged to vote through administrative barriers. Moreover, we also experienced a new Constitutional assault: the temporary suspension of the law, through a governmental emergency ordinance, aiming to ···
If for the referendum of 2012 attempts to manipulate the electoral results through the decimation of the electorate have been made, for the 2014 elections the target was the approximate 16% of the voters living abroad, who have been discouraged to vote through administrative bullying. In addition, we had another innovation, a direct attack of ···
The Center for the Study of Democracy (CSD), a think tank based in Sofia, Bulgaria has a full-time opening for a Romanian speaking Research Fellow or Senior Analyst to be based in Sofia. The position will require some travel to Romania and Moldova. This is an exciting opportunity for either a junior or a senior ···
Partnership for Social Development and Expert Forum will organize the conference FIGHT AGAINST FRAUD AND EU COMMON MARKET. JOINT PUBLIC PROCUREMENT MONITORING – CROATIA AND ROMANIA, on Wednesday, 28th May 2014, at PRESS CLUB BRUSSELS EUROPE, 95 Rue Froissart – 1040 Bruxelles. The event is part of the project Cross-Country Legal and Institutional Framework for ···