The overall aim of the project is to increase citizen participation in electoral processes in Europe. The project aims to empower European citizens to improve democratic electoral processes on local, national and European level and to protect the integrity of election processes in Europe as a fundamental human right of European citizens. The project initiates a ···
Even though election observation was affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, it remains an essential part for the credibility and integrity of the electoral process. In policy brief 89, Expert Forum explores varied experiences from several countries and proposes a list of good practice for the domestic election observation organizations. The purpose of this brief is to ···
What is PNDL in Romania was the program “Good Roads for Moldova” for the government in Chişinău: discretionary purse in anticipation of the general elections of February 2019. In fact, the micro-targeting was even more sophisticated and perverse than parties are able to do in Romania, but the problem of systemic clientelism – discretionary use ···
Expert Forum has joined the American Councils for International Education in Romania to bring you Kennedy Academy for Students, a program which seeks to empower 20 young Romanian student NGO leaders aged 18-26 to better lead their organizations, increase their English language ability, learn more about U.S. democratic values, and gain the necessary life-long tools to ···
Around the world, the need to protect and support whistleblowers has never been greater. Even as their disclosures are leading to more corrective actions within governments and corporations, whistleblowers continue to suffer from retaliation, threats, fines and criminal prosecution. In Southeast Europe, a new initiative has been launched to fight for the rights of employees ···
In 2014, a first report on corruption and anticorruption in the EU member states has been released. The horizontal topic is corruption in public procurement, a topic of a major importance from the public spending perspective in the member states and taking into account the adoption of the New Directive on Public Procurement that will ···
There are few published public policy analyses that are relevant, independent and available to public opinion, and authorities decisions are often ad hoc, in spite of receiving free consultancy. Where they exist, analyses are oriented towards domains of public policy that are within the interest and expertise area of think tank members. Thus, the project ···
Sometimes I’m fed up myself of jeremiad’s sub tone many of the articles I publish have. I have, it’s true, enough reasons to be moody, to be more and more skeptical when I try to envision solutions. I wish I could come up with strong solutions, favorable circumstances, encouraging achievements. But they are either very ···
Year 2014 is an electoral one. On 25th of May elections are to be held for the European Parliament and partial elections in some uninominal circumscriptions, and in November presidential elections. Against this background, there is the temptation for some candidates to adopt popular themes, aimed against fundamental rights, ranging from stigmatizing social groups to ···