{"id":7722,"date":"2026-03-08T11:41:45","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T11:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/expertforum.ro\/en\/?p=7722"},"modified":"2026-05-27T12:56:49","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T12:56:49","slug":"three-decades-of-civil-society-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/expertforum.ro\/en\/three-decades-of-civil-society-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Decades of Civil Society"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday, 11 March 2026, 10:00 AM \u2013 Aula Magna, BCU.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"154\" data-end=\"275\"><strong data-start=\"154\" data-end=\"275\">Democracy and Civil Society in Eastern Europe: Where We Come From and What Will Become of Us in These Turbulent Times.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"329\">As at the beginning of every year, EFOR released its report on the most significant recent developments. This year\u2019s edition focused on the fate of democracy in the region and in Romania, as well as on the \u201cbattle for reality\u201d &#8212; that is, the integrity of the information space under the pressure of authoritarian-style regimes. Our special guest was <strong>Anne Applebaum<\/strong>, journalist, scholar and Pulitzer Prize laureate. The event was organised in cooperation with Litera publishing house and also included a book signing for readers of the two most recent titles published in Romanian, <em data-start=\"595\" data-end=\"612\">Autocracy, Inc.<\/em> and <em data-start=\"617\" data-end=\"629\">Red Famine<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"857\" data-end=\"924\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/expertforum.ro\/en\/files\/2026\/03\/EFOR-report-2026-CivSoc.pdf\">The full text of the EFOR Annual Report 2026 is available here<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"857\" data-end=\"924\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7723\" src=\"https:\/\/expertforum.ro\/en\/files\/2026\/03\/Anne-Applebaum-EFOR-annual-event-2026_1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/expertforum.ro\/en\/files\/2026\/03\/Anne-Applebaum-EFOR-annual-event-2026_1.png 1200w, https:\/\/expertforum.ro\/en\/files\/2026\/03\/Anne-Applebaum-EFOR-annual-event-2026_1-600x315.png 600w, https:\/\/expertforum.ro\/en\/files\/2026\/03\/Anne-Applebaum-EFOR-annual-event-2026_1-1024x538.png 1024w, https:\/\/expertforum.ro\/en\/files\/2026\/03\/Anne-Applebaum-EFOR-annual-event-2026_1-768x403.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\t\t<style>\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-7722 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/expertforum.ro\/en\/three-decades-of-civil-society-2\/7-1\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/expertforum.ro\/en\/files\/2026\/03\/7-1-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/expertforum.ro\/en\/three-decades-of-civil-society-2\/6-10\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/expertforum.ro\/en\/files\/2026\/03\/6-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/expertforum.ro\/en\/three-decades-of-civil-society-2\/3-21\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/expertforum.ro\/en\/files\/2026\/03\/3-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/expertforum.ro\/en\/three-decades-of-civil-society-2\/11-6\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/expertforum.ro\/en\/files\/2026\/03\/11-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/expertforum.ro\/en\/three-decades-of-civil-society-2\/12-7\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/expertforum.ro\/en\/files\/2026\/03\/12-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/expertforum.ro\/en\/three-decades-of-civil-society-2\/buc-1\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/expertforum.ro\/en\/files\/2026\/03\/Buc-1-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday, 11 March 2026, 10:00 AM \u2013 Aula Magna, BCU. Democracy and Civil Society in Eastern Europe: Where We Come From and What Will Become of Us in These Turbulent Times. As at the beginning of every year, EFOR released its report on the most significant recent developments. This year\u2019s edition focused on the fate <a href=\"https:\/\/expertforum.ro\/en\/three-decades-of-civil-society-2\/\" class=more>&middot;&middot;&middot;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7724,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-publications"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/expertforum.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/expertforum.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/expertforum.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/expertforum.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/expertforum.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7722"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/expertforum.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7767,"href":"https:\/\/expertforum.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7722\/revisions\/7767"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/expertforum.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/expertforum.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/expertforum.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/expertforum.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}