Adapted and edited from an original article entitled 'The Relationship Market: How modern lobbying gets done' Authors: Maggie McKinley and Thomas Groll, Center for Ethics, Harvard University, USA.

Source: VoteWatch Europe

Austria (3)

1. Othmar Karas (EPP)
2. Evelyn Regner (S&D)
3. Ulrike Lunacek (Greens/EFA)

Belgium (3)

1. Guy Verhofstadt (ALDE/ADLE)
2. Gérard Deprez (ALDE/ADLE)
3. Louis Michel (ALDE/ADLE)

Bulgaria (1)

1. Mariya Gabriel (EPP)

Estonia (1)

1. Kaja Kallas (ALDE/ADLE)

Finland (2)

More than half the people outside the U.S. government who met with Hillary Clinton while she was Secretary of State gave money — either personally or through companies or groups — to the Clinton Foundation. It’s an extraordinary proportion indicating her possible ethics challenges.

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The Ad Hoc Ethical Committee was created by a Commission Decision in 2003 and is composed of three members: a former judge of the General Court of the European Union, a former Member of the European Parliament and a former Director-General of the European Commission. A Unit in the Secretariat-General of the Commission acts as a secretariat of the Ethical Committee. As of this date members of the Ad Hoc Committee include Mr. Christiaan Timmermans, Ms. Dagmar Roth-Behrendt and Mr. Heinz Zourek.

In alphabetical order

News Agencies

1. ADN KRONOS International
2. AGENZIA NOVA
3. AGI
4. ANSA
5. IL SOLE 24 ORE RADIOCOR
6. TMNEWS – ASCA
7. VITA INTERNATIONAL
8. VITA/IL VELINO

Newspapers and Magazines

1. AVVENIRE
2. EUNEWS.IT/GRUPPO L'ESPRESSO-FINEGIL
3. IL CORRIERE DELLA SERA 
4. IL FOGLIO
5. Il MANIFESTO 
6. IL SOLE 24 ORE 
7. LA REPUBBLICA
8. LA STAMPA 

TV networks

Alphabetical Listing

Agences de presse

1. Agence France Presse

Presse écrite

Presse généraliste

1. Le Monde
2. Le Figaro
3. Libération
4. Les Echos
5. L’Opinion
6. La Croix
7. Le Parisien
8. Agefi
9. Mediapart

Presse quotidienne régionale

1. Ouest-France/Sud-Ouest
2. Le Télégramme

Presse hebdomadaire

1. Le Point

Presse spécialisée