TIME LINE FOR THE EUROPEAN ELECTIONS

22 September 2013 :  German elections

OUTLOOK FOR 2014 EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT ELECTIONS

Eurobarometer surveys reveal that most European citizens (more than 50%) do not think that their vote is going to change anything; they think that the EP does not deal with problems that really concern them, they lack information about the elections and the EP and are not interested in EU affairs. For most potential voters, the EP elections lack the clear purpose of national elections. These elections do not constitute an instrument to sanction the incumbent government (largely the Commission and the Council).

THE FRONT NATIONAL ANTI-EU STANCE IS ABSURD, DEMAGOGIC AND IRRESPONSIBLE!

Discours de Marine Le Pen on the occasion of the Front National’s Universités d’Eté in Marseille 15 September:

THE IMPORTANCE OF CORPORATE BRUSSELS LIAISON OFFICES

While companies in the European Union increasingly recognize the importance of public policy advocacy at the European and national level only a few have their own representation office in Brussels. Yet companies need to be compliant in many sectors e.g. consumer protection and producer liability, work safety, product certification, technical regulations, standards, food quality and safety, environmental protection, rules of competition, labels, trademarks, patents without talking about what’s in the pipeline in terms of new legislation that is bound to affect their business.

RANKING OF EU MEMBER STATES ACCORDING TO THEIR COUNTRY BRAND STRATEGIES

The 2012 Bloom Consulting Country Brand Ranking is the only country or nation brand ranking which classifies countries by the effectiveness of their country brand strategies (brand tags) and its subsequent impact on the country’s GDP. Brand tags function as the ‘supply’ side of the investor-destination equation. Thousands of brand tags were collected from each country’s official investment agency and then classified into 50 different clusters that relate to workforce, social welfare, strong and stable economy, favorable fiscal benefits, or stable political environment.

STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS 2013

In its State of the Union Address 2013, the President of the European Commission Mr. José Manuel Durão Barroso makes a reference to what he said last year  i.e. to present before the European elections, further ideas on the future of the Union and how to best consolidate and deepen the community method and community approach in the longer term. That way, he says  they can be subject to a real European debate. And Mr. Barroso to add ‘they will set out the principles and orientations that are necessary for a true political union.

CHANGING AFRICA’S IMAGE

En prélude à la tenue des élections sénatoriales, législatives et municipales le 26 mai 2013, le chef de l'Etat de la Guinée Equatoriale M. Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo s’est adressé le 14 mai 2013, à Malabo, à une centaine d'hommes de médias.

FRANCE PRESENTS 34 SECTORAL PLANS FOR ITS INDUSTRIAL RECOVERY

France has 34  sectoral plans for its industrial recovery. The objective is to build a new and competitive industrial offering that is capable to regain lost market shares and to win new ones. It should be pointed that industry represented in 2011 but only 19% of the total French GDP behind Czech Republic (36%), Poland (32%), Bulgaria (31%), Hungary (31%), Austria (29%), Finland (29%), Estonia (29%), Croatia (26%) Germany (28%), Lithuania (28%), Spain (26%), Sweden (26%), Italy (25%), Netherlands (24%), Denmark (22%),UK (22%), Belgium (22%), Latvia (22%).   

EUROPE NEEDS TO THINK AHEAD

That Europe needs to work together because the challenges ahead are too large for any European country to address on their own isn’t really news. Neither is the idea to strengthen the Single Market, to foster the EU’s economic governance, or to continue with the reforms set out in the Lisbon Agenda ten years ago.

Rather than focusing on communication policy, the EU needs to communicate on policy.

L'AFRIQUE: L'ECHIQUIER DE LUTTES D'INFLUENCE AUX MULTIPLES FACETTES

Selon le FMI, 22 pays subsahariens atteindront à l’horizon de 2015 un PIB par habitant suffisant pour voir s’y développer une consommation de masse. Industrie automobile, informatique ou même enseignement supérieur, les marchés potentiels attisent toutes les convoitises.

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