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In 2019, the European Union implemented protections for those who speak up about wrongdoing, through the adoption of a landmark whistleblower protections directive: Directive 2019/1937. The EU Directive was hailed as a globally significant development for integrity and accountability. Now, almost four years after the EU Directive was finalised, and two years since it was ···
On 9 Oct at 7pm don’t make other plans but come to Cărturești-Verona bookstore to discuss the Peter Pomerantsev’s volume. He is a British journalist of Russian-Ukrainian origin, probably the most profound and brilliant contemporary analyst of the mechanisms of Kremlinist-Trumpist propaganda. Translated by Cartier publishing house from Chisinau, the book should not be missing ···
The Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the transparency and targeting of political advertising will enter into force from 2024. The regulation represents a set of regulations aimed at increasing accountability at European level for actors involved in electoral and political processes. It defines political advertising in a context where the ···
The 2020-2024 local political cycle is one year away and the authorities have yet to create a public database of over 46,000 local elected representatives, as they should. This would not only be a sign of transparency and a useful tool for the media and analysts, but would also allow checks on the extent ···
This research has the purpose of analysing different models of allocation of state subsidies across the EU member states and some other European states and to provide a more in-depth analysis of the Romanian model and its issues. The structure of the report aims to answer key questions regarding the approval, allocation, expenditure, management, transparency ···
In 2023 political parties will receive 258 million lei in subsidies. In the first six months of the year, the six parties entitled to the money according to the 2020 election results received 125 million lei and spent 118 million lei. The Permanent Electoral Authority (PEA), the institution that manages the funds, transferred 48.2 million ···
Caught between regulations interpreted inconsistently across the territory, difficult access to services and institutions which are inefficient even for the Romanian citizens, the Ukrainian refugees struggle to cope with change and are worried about what is coming after September. The problems of Ukrainian refugees in Romania. EFOR summarizes in this report the problems faced by ···
For us Europeans, Russia is the storm, but China is climate change, as the head of counterintelligence in Germany said the other day: the former causes short-term disruption, but goes away, while the latter is inexorable and will change everything, forever. It is true that a whole debate has been going on lately around the ···
Top Political Accounts January 2023-May 2023 Based on List Monitoring in Crowdtangle with politicians from the Republic of Moldova Source – Crowdtangle Narrative 1: The European Union accession – A threat to the pro-Russian establishment? The Pro-Russian opposition parties promote standard ex-soviet state Russian propaganda, personalized for the context of the Republic of Moldova. The ···
Expert Forum submitted comments to the Legal Committee of the Senate on the Legislative proposal for amending and supplementing Law 334/2006 on the financing of political parties and electoral campaigns, L313/2023. The initiative of the Social Democratic Party takes over most of the draft proposed by the Permanent Electoral Authority in 2022. Read all comments ···