When the European President Jean-Claude Juncker took office last November he identified the creation of a digital single market for consumers and businesses as his number one priority. This vision in part relies upon a more harmonised approach to copyright among Member States, which in turn suggests a review of the principal source of regulation - the EU Copyright Directive.

European Union members of Business Europe have made satisfactory progress over the past year on only a fifth of reforms required to boost growth and competitiveness. BusinessEurope, which represents federations in 33 countries, asked its EU members to rate efforts by their governments to implement country-specific reforms. They assessed implementation as excellent or satisfactory in only 22 percent of cases.

In six months, Goldman Sachs thinks the Euro will reach parity with the U.S Dollar. The Euro has fallen considerably over the last year and is currently at around 1.06 to the Dollar. The Euro hasn't been at parity with the dollar since late 2002. Indeed, the Euro has fallen 24 percent against the Dollar in less than a year,

It is possible Euro trading will be below equal value to the dollar in a year, but over the next couple years Goldman Sachs expects the Euro to fall to record lows against the Dollar.

The Association Agreement (AA) aims to deepen political and economic relations between Georgia and the EU, and to gradually integrate Georgia into the EU Internal Market. This includes the setting up of a Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area (DCFTA), which is a core part of the Agreement.

The AA is a concrete way to activate the potential of EU-Georgian relations, focusing on support to core reforms, on economic recovery and growth, governance and sector cooperation.

1. Austria: Austria has implemented policy instruments in all climate change-related areas, with a focus on renewable energies and energy efficiency. In addition, Austria adopted legally binding GHG emission targets as well as funding opportunities addressing waste, industry, F-gases, buildings, agriculture, and transport.

Online reputation management (ORM) makes you look better online. It is the essential personal branding tool of our time. ORM involves placing new content online that pushes old or unwanted content lower in search results. It can also raise other online content higher to displace unwanted material. Once successfully arranged, the results must be maintained. Otherwise, the unwanted material may resurface at the top of Google search results usually within three to six months. New content does not automatically appear at the top of search results.

Central Asia is a region the size of Western Europe and contains five countries: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. Blessed with some of the richest and most diverse resources anywhere in the world, over the last twenty years the region has shown its commitment to become a reliable, long-term partner of the West.

At the heart of the EU in Brussels, and across European capitals, public relations professionals and lobbying consultants are working on behalf of foreign governments and/or foreign entities. While some firms and lobbyists working for these clients in Brussels are entered in the EU’s voluntary Transparency Register, others do not appear on it at all, and those that do may be omitting controversial clients. Even where they are registered, many of the budgets claimed may be inaccurate.

The EU’s expenditure on NGO’s is opaque and difficult to quantify. The information that is publicly available is inconsistently presented in a variety of different sources.

Which NGO’s qualify for funding?

According to the EU, NGO’s are defined as follows:

Corruption continues to be a challenge for Europe. Affecting all EU Member States, corruption costs the European economy around € 120 billion per year. Member States have taken many initiatives in recent years, but the results are uneven and more should be done to prevent and punish corruption.

Both the nature and level of corruption, and the effectiveness of measures taken to fight it, vary from one Member State to another. Corruption deserves greater attention in all Member States.

Here are some of the main corruption-related trends across the EU: