The strong position of the Eurogroup, which goes beyond a simple sketch of a “European Economic Government”, gives rise not only to significant accountability but also leads to legal problems.

Both Chancellor Merkel and François Hollande stress that Saturday's Eurogroup meeting will be the decisive moment in the negotiations and see no need for another eurozone leaders' summit.

The Eurogroup is a meeting of the Finance Ministers of the eurozone. It's current President is Dutch Finance Minister Jeroen Dijsselbloem. The President of the European Central Bank (Mario Draghi), the European Commissioner for Economic and Financial Affairs, Taxation and Customs (Pierre Moscovici) and the President of the Eurogroup Working Group (Thomas Wieser) attend the meetings as observers.

Election of the Host City

Following a final Candidate City presentation and a report by the Evaluation Commission Chair, the IOC members vote by secret ballot and elect the host city. The voting panel is made up of 101 Elected members, 33 Honorary members and one Honour member. IOC members include former Olympic competitors, international royalty, and assorted luminaries. Subsequently, the newly elected host city then signs the Host City Contract with the IOC.

IOC Elected Members

Rules of Conduct for the Olympic Games 2024 Bid Process

Article 1 Scope of application

1.1 These Rules of Conduct are applicable as soon as they are published on the IOC website. They replace the previous Rules in force and incorporate the spirit of the Olympic Agenda 2020 adopted by the 127th IOC Session in December 2014. The candidature procedure is constituted of three phases: the Invitation phase, the Applicant City phase and the Candidate City phase.

Inter-Governmental Organizations

The Balkan Trust for Democracy (BTD) is grantmaking initiative that supports democracy, good governance, and Euroatlantic integration in Southeastern Europe. BTD was created in 2003 by the German Marshall Fund of the United States, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), and the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation. BTD’s original ten-year mandate came to an end in May 2013. BTD then entered into its second mandate (2013-2020) with structural changes to geographic coverage and grantmaking scope.

Trade associations represent the ‘voice of business’, or of particular industrial sectors, and act as a convenient, accessible aggregator of opinion for those sectors. Policymakers tend to give greater weight to the views of trade associations than they do to individual companies. Trade associations often claim to represent tens or hundreds of thousands of jobs, and a large percentage share of particular markets, and are perceived to have a more impartial perspective than particular companies.

Whether professional consultancies, trade associations, NGOs or academic institutions, the number of stakeholders contained in the voluntary EU Transparency Register has more than doubled over the past 3 years. Any type of organisation that interacts with the EU institutions is invited to sign up and disclose who they are, what they want, who their clients are and what they spend on EU-related activities.