Source: Institutional and Constitutional Aspects of Special Interest Representation- Study for the AFCO Committee (2015). European Parliament Directorate-General for Internal Policies- Policy Department C (Citizens’ Rights and Constitutional Affairs)

Job creation is the number one issue facing U.S. in regard to economic growth, sustainment and prosperity.  Jobs do not create jobs, businesses do, especially small businesses. Unfortunately, America is focused on big business and government employment solutions that have not been very effective growing the U.S. labor force. In fact, the U.S. labor force is in a state of decline as evidenced by the eroding middle-class and the transformation from full-time to contingency workers.

State-Owned Enterprises (SOE): China owns and subsidizes many companies, as in the steel industry. Through the subsidized companies, China can target a market with low-cost products, capture market share and drive competitors out of business.

European Commission

1. Head of Unit
2. The Case Handler
3. Public Servants within the lead DG and other DGS
4. Members of Commissioners' office
5. The Commissioners

European Parliament

1. The Rapporteur and the Shadows
2. Opinion Leaders
3. Parliamentary Assistants
4. Administrators in Committees
5. Group Coordinator

Council of Ministers

Nuclear power can solve some of Europe’s most pressing energy issues. The European energy sector is facing a triple challenge: decarbonisation of the economy, security of supply, and affordability. There are opportunities for Baltic electricity markets integration via third-party infrastructure, for example by using the Baltic NPP in the Kaliningrad region in Western Russia. 

The fact that most major news outlets are controlled by a handful of massive, powerful companies, is becoming of growing concern in America. It is vitally important that citizens in the U.S. become more skeptical of the news that is being fed to them by these huge corporate media outlets and find alternative means of learning about what is actually happening in their country and around the world. What they find might be rather shocking in its contradiction to what they are spoon fed on a daily basis.

The Electoral Integrity Project (EIP) is an independent research project based at the University of Sydney and Harvard University. For the past four years, the EIP has been bringing together scholars and practitioners from around the world to discuss effective research and how to design evidence-based programming that will increase the integrity of elections. Since the EIP’s inception, the International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES) has been an active participant in the project.

Electoral Laws

Polling is a complicated business. The key thing to understand is that the margin of error does not always describe the true error inherent in the poll, so polls that boast a small error can end up being completely wrong.

AEGIS Europe brings together nearly 30 European associations representing a broad variety of industries including traditional industries, consumer branches, SMEs and renewable energy sectors, accounting for more than €500 billion in annual turnover and millions of jobs across the EU. This industry alliance, made up of leaders in sustainable manufacturing and social and environmental responsibility, is committed to European manufacturing as the fundamental driver of innovation, growth and jobs in Europe.