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See full documentary here. Amid allegations of corruption and violence, Romania’s ancient forests are being devastated by illegal logging. It is getting dangerous in Romania’s vast ancient forests. The figures are stark: Six rangers killed (two in 2019 alone) and a further 650 attacked with axes, knives and guns. The Carpathians, where 70 percent of ···
Expert Forum and Center for the Study of Democracy are pleased to invite you to the online Round-table discussion on the Rule of Law report, on 3 December 2020, at 10:00 CET, via Zoom. The discussion will be focused on the policy implications of the Rule of Law reports on Bulgaria, Italy, Romania, and Spain, ···
This report analyzes the data declared by electoral competitors to the Permanent Electoral Authority (PEA) which has been published on the online platform www.finantarepartide.ro by September 18. For a more general analysis of the legislative framework and the issues related to the financing of the electoral campaign, please read the first monitoring report published at ···
The local elections held on 27 September 2020, organized in the difficult context of the COVID-19 pandemic, were a competitive process that offered voters multiple and diverse options and the possibility to make an informed choice. The election authorities organized the process for the most part efficiently, however a number of key ···
The 2020 local elections will not change much in terms of women political participation in Romania. The differences from the last round of local elections, in June 2016, are minimal, although upstart parties have joined the competition recently. There has been unexpected regress at the institutional level: the electoral authorities publish today less data ···
Expert Forum has released the www.votcorect.ro platform for the local elections that will take place on September 27. The website includes several sections with explanations of the main rules regarding the electoral campaign, voters’ registration, voting day or appeals. Moreover, our team offers answers to frequently asked questions about the organisation of the electoral process ···
Expert Forum has released an online platform containing all the candidates for the 2020 local elections, including the data published by the Central Electoral Bureau. The platform allows to search candidates by name, constituencies, political parties or other relevant criteria. The database is available on www.votcorect.ro/candidati-locale. The database centralizes a number of 256.042 candidatures for ···
Expert Forum has released the first monitoring report on the electoral campaign financing for the local elections to be held on 27 September 2020. The report aims to draw some conclusions in regard to the financing of the electoral campaigns, based on the analysis of electoral legislation related to political financing, after the investigation of ···
EFOR is currently the Civil Society Pillar Focal Point in Romania for Community of Democracies (CoD), an intergovernmental organization. In this capacity we assisted CoD in its internal reflection about democratic stability and resilience. Sorin Ioniţă authored the 2020 report for the Governing Council al CoD. It includes a state-of-the-art in the debate on democratic ···