2016

1. Germany: Berlin (Abgeordnetenhaus, Bezirksverordnetenversammlungen) (18 September 2016)
2. Austria : Presidential elections re-run (2nd October 2016)
3. Hungary: Referendum on whether to accept EU imposed migrant quotas( 2nd October 2016)
4. Italy: Constitutional Referendum to reform the Senate  (Date to be set on 26 September2016)

2017

It is necessary to bring EU governance forward as a response to the citizens’ quest for legitimacy through enhanced democratization in the decision-making mechanisms and as a tool that would increase the leverage and competitiveness of the EU to have an efficient way of functioning. In that respect, the legitimacy and the representative power of the EU and its institutions need to be put under scrutiny, as powerful and at the same time efficient decision making mechanisms are necessary for the EU.

Delivering on its Digital Single Market strategy, the Commission’s proposal  is to allow Europeans to travel with their online content and to modernise EU copyright rules. At present, Europeans travelling within the EU may be cut off from online services providing films, sports broadcasts, music, e-books or games that they have paid for in their home country. The  proposed Regulation on the cross-border portability of online content services addresses these restrictions in order to allow EU residents to travel with the digital content they have purchased or subscribed to at home.

September 14, 2016

Adapted and edited from an original article entitled 'The Relationship Market: How modern lobbying gets done' Authors: Maggie McKinley and Thomas Groll, Center for Ethics, Harvard University, USA.

Source: VoteWatch Europe

Austria (3)

1. Othmar Karas (EPP)
2. Evelyn Regner (S&D)
3. Ulrike Lunacek (Greens/EFA)

Belgium (3)

1. Guy Verhofstadt (ALDE/ADLE)
2. Gérard Deprez (ALDE/ADLE)
3. Louis Michel (ALDE/ADLE)

Bulgaria (1)

1. Mariya Gabriel (EPP)

Estonia (1)

1. Kaja Kallas (ALDE/ADLE)

Finland (2)

More than half the people outside the U.S. government who met with Hillary Clinton while she was Secretary of State gave money — either personally or through companies or groups — to the Clinton Foundation. It’s an extraordinary proportion indicating her possible ethics challenges.

1. Accept that there are costs and risks involved in dealing with the media, but understand that the benefits far outweigh them. Of course there are risks (a fear that your work will be distorted and unfairly presented is the most significant) and there are costs (of which the greatest is time). The risks are, for the most part, pretty minimal – as long as you follow some fairly basic rules – and the costs are much less than many imagine.

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