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THE TOP 8 OF THE NEW EUROPEAN COMMISSION

Submitted by christian on Thu, 09/12/2019 - 12:10

Based on President-elect von der Leyen’s Mission Letters

Executive Vice-President for the European Green Deal (Frans Timmermans)

Mission

The Executive Vice-President has a dual function. He sets the strategic direction and chair the Commissioners’ Group on the European Green Deal. In addition, he is responsible for the climate action portfolio. In leading the work on the European Green Deal, he ensures all policy dimensions are fully taken into account.

MOST CORRUPT EU COUNTRIES

Submitted by christian on Wed, 09/11/2019 - 15:37

Source: Transparency International

Bulgaria: Decline
Greece: Decline
Hungary: Improvement
Romania: Decline
Croatia: Decline
Slovakia: No sign or improvement or decline
Italy: Improvement
Malta: Decline
Spain: Small improvement
Latvia: No sign of improvement or decline
Lithuania: No sign of improvement or decline
Czech Republic: Improvement
Cyprus: Improvement

Lobbying Transparency (Scale 0-100) where 0 is the weakest and 100 us strongest

LOBBYING IN TAIWAN

Submitted by christian on Wed, 09/11/2019 - 12:01

Authors: Jui-Hua Fan and Lucas (Lung-Kuan) Wang (Formosa Transnational Attorneys at Law)

NEW STRUCTURE OF THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION

Submitted by christian on Wed, 09/11/2019 - 11:27

President-elect Ursula von der Leyen

The new College will have eight Vice-Presidents, including the High-Representative of the Union for Foreign Policy and Security Policy (Josep Borrell). The Vice-Presidents are responsible for the top priorities in the Political Guidelines.

Three Executive Vice-Presidents will have a double function. They will be both Vice-President responsible for one of three core topics of the President-elect's agenda and Commissioners.

LOBBYING IN KAZAKHSTAN

Submitted by christian on Tue, 09/10/2019 - 19:25

Authors : Natalia Malyarchuk and Yury Shikhov (Kesarev)

Constitution: The Kazakh Constitution guarantees the rights of citizens and organisations to access information and to interact with the government within the frameworks provided by the law (article 18, page 3 of the Constitution). However, it directly prohibits any interference of citizens and organisations in affairs of the state (article 5, page 2 of the Constitution).

LEGAL REGULATION OF LOBBYING ACTIVITIES IN THE CONTEXT OF PUBLIC DECISION MAKING

Submitted by christian on Tue, 09/10/2019 - 19:22

Source: Recommendation CM/Rec(2017)2 adopted by the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe on 22 March 2017

LOBBYING IN UKRAINE

Submitted by christian on Tue, 09/10/2019 - 15:12

Authors: Mikhail Sokolov, Oleksandr Ilkov and Oleksandr Sakharenko (Kesarev)

LOBBYING IN AUSTRALIA

Submitted by christian on Tue, 09/10/2019 - 15:08

Authors: David Moore and Mellisa Lai, (MinterEllison)

Constitution: The Constitution of Australia (the Constitution) sets out the powers of the body politic, the Commonwealth of Australia (ie, the six federated states).

Australia does not have a bill of rights, though there are some rights protected in the Constitution and at common law.

Relevantly, the High Court of Australia has ruled that there is an implied - but not absolute - freedom of political communication under Australian law.

LOBBYING IN POLAND

Submitted by christian on Tue, 09/10/2019 - 14:05

Authors: Rudolf Ostrihansky and Mateusz Żuk (Sołtysiński Kawecki & Szlęzak)

LOBBYING IN MEXICO

Submitted by christian on Tue, 09/10/2019 - 13:55

Authors: Sergio Chagoya Diaz and Elias Zaga Belzer (Santamarina y Steta SC)

Constitution: The basic source of law in the United Mexican States (Mexico) is a written federal constitution dating from 1917 (the Constitution), which consists of 136 articles, many of which have been somehow amended throughout all these years.