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There will soon be two years since the first wave of Ukrainian refugees started to arrive in Romania and many of their problems are still to be solved. Their integration on the labor market is supposed to be a priority, but this proves to be hard, while the authorities know surprisingly little about these people. ···
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 ···
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 ···
We were discussing here yesterday why it is important to understand and measure China’s influence in various countries, and why for us in Bucharest it is a priority to understand how it acts in Europe. This is exactly what we set out to do in the China Index project, designed and managed by a well-known ···
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 ···
China’s influence in Romania – and 81 other states: an index with 99 dimensions grouped in 9 sections. Why am I not surprised that the biggest attraction for the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in Romania is among the academic elite and domestic politics (the latter with caveats, that it is mostly about people from intelligence, ···
In order to identify the needs of the civil society in Ukraine, and to further advocate on support of the ideas that arose as part of the research, a survey was conducted among various civil society organizations from four regions of Ukraine in cooperation with Expert Forum (EFOR): Odesa, Khmelnytskyi, Kharkiv, Kyiv city & region. ···
Why the Ukrainian society turns out to be so different from the one in Russia – first and foremost in its strong option for Europe / the West? What is the source of this resilience / capacity to organize / bottom up initiatives in Ukraine? Can we hope for a similar change in Russia at ···
The project Propaganda FIDESZ Record breaking funding from Budapest: an obscure local association received 20 million euro over a few years to consolidate in a holding most of the Hungarian-language media and online operations. It is all part of a long-term plan to monopolize and clientelize the space for public debate in Transylvania by FIDESZ ···
Key messages in the conference held on June 23rd 2021 True to their agenda of democracy building, EFOR and its main partner, the Black Sea Trust (BST, a program of the GMF-US), organized a conference to explore how this potential for cooperation between Taiwan and the Black Sea countries could materialize. Here are some key ···
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