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07 Feb: Budget & Legislative Analysis: The National Recovery and Resilience Plan

This document presents an analysis from both a budgetary and a legislative point of view of the implementation of the PNRR. Thus, this year we decided that the traditional analysis of parliamentary activity (Session 1, Session 2 and Session 3) should be based on the monitoring of the legislative reforms from the Recovery and Resilience Plan, following the legislative process for the milestones that had to be met in 2021 and 2022. If you are not familiar with the work of the Parliament, you can read more about how it works and what the parliamentary legislative process is here.

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09 Dec: At Home in Communism – An Interactive Civic Education Lab

Let’s explain today’s civil rights and liberties to students, through sensory exploration and case studies on Romanian communism.   The Story: Our generation’s Project. We were born and (also) grew up in the 80s. We queued at the milk store and invented games to play at home when the lights went out. Our parents shielded us from adversities, so we didn’t make much of the tragic ending of the Romanian Socialist Republic, although we did assume that things weren’t exactly OK. 30 years after the Revolution, Romania remains the only country in Eastern Europe that lacks a recent history museum to tell the story of day-to-day life during the communist regime. Who we are Funky Citizens and Modulab, along with tens of other volunteers from various fields: architects, communications…

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05 Feb: România stă bine la transparența bugetară. Și prost la a o face utilă pentru cetățeni.

La finalul săptămânii trecute, a fost publicat Open Budget Index, o cercetare care acoperă 115 țări și la care au lucrat peste 300 de experți. Funky Citizens a fost partenerul International Budget Partnership care s-a ocupat de România și avem câteva vești pentru voi. Evident, legate de cum se prezintă bugetele României din această perspectivă a deschiderii lor către cetățeni. REZUMAT PDF – AICI În primul rând, însă, trebuie să vă spunem că toate documentele luate în calcul au fost cele de până la 31 decembrie 2016, așadar și evaluarea e bazată pe situația de la acel moment. De ce e nevoie de aproape un an pentru a avea niște rezultate? Pe lângă numărul mare de țări acoperite, procesul e unul laborios, care implică dublă și triplă verificare. Apoi,…