Results

1. VVD (People's Party for Freedom and Democracy) 21.3% (33 seats)
2. PVV (Party for Freedom) 13.1% (20 seats)
3. CDA (Christian Democratic Appeal) 12.4% (19 seats)
4. D66 (Democrats 66) 12.1% (19 seats)
5. SP (Socialist Party) 9.1% (15 seats)
6. GL (Green Left) 9.0% (14 seats)
7. PvdA (Labour Party 5.7% (9 seats)
8. CU (Christian Union 3.4% (5 seats)

Possible Four Party Coalitions

Recital

Total: € 81 269 000

Information about Europe is very complicated, with a very complex institutional organization. It is not perceived as exciting news. Therefore, journalists use certain types of headlines to attract readers. Indeed, the differing coverage of the EU can be explained in part by the newspapers’ perception of their readers’ interests. News on the EU does not interest as many readers. Newspapers must respond to the context of their respective societies, and they must face the constraints and requirements of the market.

Source: NUMBEO

The Quality of Life Index (higher is better) is an estimation of overall quality of life by using empirical formula which takes into account purchasing power index (higher is better), pollution index (lower is better), house price to income ratio (lower is better), cost of living index (lower is better), safety index (higher is better), health care index (higher is better), traffic commute time index (lower is better) and climate index (higher is better).

Quality of Life Index

Author: Marian L. Tupy, Senior Policy Analyst at the Cato Institute’s Center for Liberty and Prosperity (June 22, 2016)

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Source: ComRes/Burson-Marsteller 2016- EUMedia Poll

Weekly or more frequent readers of newspapers & online news sites

1. Politico: 52%
2. BBC: 51%
3. Euractiv: 42%
4. FT: 39%
5. The Economist: 30%
6. EU Observer: 22%
7. NY Times: 17%
8. The Parliament: 15%
9. WSJ: 14%
10. New Europe: 10%
11. Agence Europe: 10%
12. euReporter: 8%
13. Google: 5%

For MEPs

Author: Sandra Kröger, lecturer at the politics department of the University of Exeter.

By the authority vested in me as President of the United States by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 301 of title 3, United States Code, and sections 3301 and 7301 of title 5, United States Code, it is hereby ordered as follows:

Section 1.  Ethics Pledge.  Every appointee in every executive agency appointed on or after January 20, 2017, shall sign, and upon signing shall be contractually committed to, the following pledge upon becoming an appointee:

1. FCs are responsible for proposing their subject. Most of the stories cover economics, financial and monetary issues
2. How FCs report EU news is largely dependent on public opinion in the countries where the media outlets are based.
3. The problem facing FCs is that more and more they’re reproducing the EU’s own communication. There is too much factual reporting and not enough analysis, commentary and investigation.
4. There is an overdose of information from the EU institutions which drowns journalists.