Source: Transparency International

1. Bulgaria: Decline
2. Greece: Decline
3. Hungary: Improvement
4. Romania: Decline
5. Croatia: Decline
6. Slovakia: No sign or improvement or decline
7. Italy: Improvement
8. Malta: Decline
9. Spain: Small improvement
10. Latvia: No sign of improvement or decline
11. Lithuania: No sign of improvement or decline
12. Czech Republic: Improvement
13. Cyprus: Improvement

Lobbying Transparency (Scale 0-100) where 0 is the weakest and 100 us strongest

Authors: Jui-Hua Fan and Lucas (Lung-Kuan) Wang (Formosa Transnational Attorneys at Law)

President-elect Ursula von der Leyen 

The new College will have eight Vice-Presidents, including the High-Representative of the Union for Foreign Policy and Security Policy (Josep Borrell). The Vice-Presidents are responsible for the top priorities in the Political Guidelines.  

Three Executive Vice-Presidents will have a double function. They will be both Vice-President responsible for one of three core topics of the President-elect's agenda and Commissioners.

Authors : Natalia Malyarchuk and Yury Shikhov (Kesarev)

Constitution: The Kazakh Constitution guarantees the rights of citizens and organisations to access information and to interact with the government within the frameworks provided by the law (article 18, page 3 of the Constitution). However, it directly prohibits any interference of citizens and organisations in affairs of the state (article 5, page 2 of the Constitution).

Source: Recommendation CM/Rec(2017)2 adopted by the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe on 22 March 2017

Authors: Mikhail Sokolov, Oleksandr Ilkov and Oleksandr Sakharenko (Kesarev)

Authors: David Moore and Mellisa Lai, (MinterEllison)

Constitution: The Constitution of Australia (the Constitution) sets out the powers of the body politic, the Commonwealth of Australia (ie, the six federated states).

Australia does not have a bill of rights, though there are some rights protected in the Constitution and at common law.

Relevantly, the High Court of Australia has ruled that there is an implied - but not absolute - freedom of political communication under Australian law.

Authors:  Rudolf Ostrihansky and Mateusz Żuk (Sołtysiński Kawecki & Szlęzak)

Authors: Sergio Chagoya Diaz and Elias Zaga Belzer (Santamarina y Steta SC)

Constitution: The basic source of law in the United Mexican States (Mexico) is a written federal constitution dating from 1917 (the Constitution), which consists of 136 articles, many of which have been somehow amended throughout all these years.

Author: Charles L. Landgraf (Arnold & Porter)