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Ukraine’s resilience and the renewed sense of purpose in the liberal West With a winter milder than usual and almost over, a new sense of unity and confidence is visible these days in what Putin and his propagandists call “the collective West”. There is a relative stabilization on the energy markets after a very turbulent ···
EFOR is organizing its major event for the current year: the launch of the annual report. The topic of the event: what the EU should learn after a year of war in Ukraine about how the Union can be more resilient – first of all through substantial changes in the energy sector, but also through ···
EFOR analyzed the expenses made by political parties from subsidies in 2022. Six parties received 256 million lei, of which they spent 184 million. PSD received 98 million lei, and PNL 83 million. USR received 45 million lei, and AUR almost 20 million lei. PMP and Pro Romania, which obtained over 4% of the votes, but did ···
EFOR released the only database with all the candidates for the Romanian elections. The database is part of the BaniPartide platform and includes candidates from 2004 to 2020 who participated in local, parliamentary, presidential and European parliamentary elections. By-elections are not included. The platform is developed for journalists, investigators or any other person interested in data related to ···
Expert Forum, in collaboration with other civic groups, submitted comments on the proposed bill amending Law 334/2006. EFOR representatives also participated in the debate organized by the PEA, which took place on 8 November. Subsequently, the PEA published on 18 November the updated version of the project, which contained a substantial portion of the ···
EFOR has petitioned political parties and the Permanent Electoral Authority asking for transparency in the allocation and spending of public subsidies. The petition was supported by nearly 15,000 signatures. EFOR thanks to all those who supported the petition. The full text can be found below: To Nicolae Ionel Ciucă, President of PNL, Marcel Ciolacu, President ···
About the project The project seeks to enhance and develop the community of investigators in Romania to decrease the expansion of organized crime, corruption and financial crime groups and has the following objectives: to provide support to law enforcement, investigative media and civil society through skill-sharing sessions to develop support tools in order to diminish ···
The report analyzes the hiring procedures for the public health directorates (DSP) and the county health insurance departments (CASJ). The purpose of the analysis is to highlight the potential for politicization of the process. The analysis is based on data provided by FOIA requests by the National Health Insurance House (CNAS), the Ministry of Health ···
Despite the generalized panic, the EU has a very strong hand against Russia when it comes to gas. In reality Russia cannot play the game of selective cuts for long: it simply cannot stop production without unbearable costs and without seriously damaging production capacity in the long run, it cannot consume more, store more and ···
EFOR has released its annual report on the financing of political parties in 2021, which analyzes the funds received and spent by parties, the activity of the Permanent Electoral Authority (PEA), access to information and includes recommendations for the improvement of identified issues. Read Policy brief no.140 . Data also available on www.banipartide.ro . Watch the recording of ···
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