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Expert Forum and the National Agency for the Management of Seized Assets (ANABI) organised a public debate in Bucharest on 23 November 2022 on the social re-use of assets recovered from crime and mechanisms to protect victims. The aim of the event was to present best practices from other countries (USA, Spain and Italy) on ···
In September 2022, EFOR analysed the draft justice laws as adopted by the Romanian Government at the end of August and identified the most problematic provisions. EFOR concluded then that aside from not solving the problems generated by the 2017-2018 justice reforms, the draft laws return the justice system to pre-accession standards. On the 17th ···
The Romanian government adopted the draft justice laws on the 24th of August 2022 and is in a hurry to adopt them in Parliament in less than a month, in a joint committee and possibly under an emergency procedure. The government thus hopes to lift the Cooperation and Verification Mechanism (CVM) this autumn. Not only ···
1. Project description The main aim of this project is to promote European values such as the rule of law, democracy, transparency, freedom of the press, equality and solidarity among EU Member States in Eastern Europe and potential candidate countries. In addition, the aim of the project is to encourage participants to become active citizens ···
The Ministry of Justice sending the three draft bills to Parliament in their current form risks opening a Pandora’s box, since the end result and duration of the legislative process is difficult to anticipate. EFOR supports the idea that the solution must be pragmatic, focused on solving the overdue problems of the Romanian justice system, ···
In March 2021, the Ministry of Justice launched for public debate the draft Law on the protection of whistleblowers, transposing Directive (EU) 2019/1937 on the protection of persons who report breaches of Union law. The deadline for transposing the Directive is 17th of December 2021. EFOR sent the Ministry of Justice its position and recommendations ···
1. Project purpose The primary aim of this project is to promote European values such as the rule of law, democracy, transparency, press freedom, equality and solidarity across Eastern European Member States and in potential Candidate Countries. Furthermore, the project’s goal is to encourage participants to become active citizens and engage in the democratic process ···
The National Agency for the Management of Seized Assets (ANABI) in partnership with Expert Forum in Romania hosted an online public discussion on the topic of “Effective asset recovery of the proceeds of crime through measures to consolidate and develop the National Agency for the Management of Seized Assets” on the 23rd of February 2021. ···
EFOR contributed to the special edition of the Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences dedicated to the COVID-19 pandemic, with an article on the Romanian sanctioning policy during the two months of state of emergency. EFOR also published a public policy report on the sanctions applied during the state fo emergency in May 2020. The articole ···
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, ···
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