Chile has a new law on lobbying. Due to the efforts of civil society and the near unanimous support of both houses of the country's parliament, Chile has become the first country in Latin America with legislation on lobbying disclosure.

Despite its weaknesses, the law represents an important step toward  lobbying transparency in Chile. In the new disclosure system, registration is voluntary. While this may significantly limit how the new regulation might capture lobbying activity, the law outlines a unique way of providing such information in the absence of a mandatory register.

The far-right group led by the French Front National could not be created, at least for the first plenary sessions at the new European Parliament.

Immediate Consequences:

The Council will submit a formal proposal for Commission President during its next official summit on 26 and 27 June 2014.

BUT Prime Minister David Cameron will force a vote on Mr. Juncker's appointment at the Brussels Summit. Under the Lisbon rules, the vote will be by qualified majority voting. This means that a proposal under consideration by the Council must meet thre requirements:

As a regulation the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will be in force in every European Union Member State, and each state will only be allowed to pass its own data protection law if this is permitted by the GDPR, or if the subject matter of the law is outside of the GDPR's scope. Although there is some difference of opinion over the details, there is common political consensus that the European Union needs a modern, European-wide approach to data protection law. Furthermore, the GDPR should be adopted by 2015 in order to advance the digital Single Market.