The main findings and tendencies of the Index for the EU have been confirmed by the World Bank's worldwide governance indicators, i.e. a clear differences among individual Member States, with nine EU Member States ranked as best anti-corruption performers and ten as worst performers.

In the current economic circumstances characterised by a large common adverse shock, where a significant number of countries face episodes of negative inflation rates, it seems warranted to exclude from the best performers those countries whose average inflation rate is distant from the euro area average inflation (0,3 % in March 2010) by a wide margin — in line with the precedent of the 2004 Convergence Report —, as these outliers cannot reasonably be judged as being best performers in terms of price stability and including them would severely affect the reference value and thus the fairness of the criterion.

Best practices include sending individual letters to non-national EU citizens to inform them of the arrangements for exercising their electoral rights.

The listed athletics events, namely the World Championships in Athletics, organised by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), and the European Athletics Championships, organised by the European Athletics Association (EAA), have a generally recognised, distinct cultural importance for the Finnish population as a catalyst of cultural identity, as the top Finnish athletes representing Finland internationally in a wide range of individual disciplines are among the world elite in their specialities.

All over the world the way is being paved for a new economy and societies are increasingly driven by information and knowledge. Yet although its citizens are amongst the best educated in the world and its education and training systems rank amongst the best in the world, and although it has the necessary investment capacity, Europe has major weaknesses and is well behind the United States in the use of the new information and communication technologies.

All over the world the way is being paved for a new economy and societies are increasingly driven by information and knowledge. Yet although its citizens are amongst the best educated in the world and its education and training systems rank amongst the best in the world, and although it has the necessary investment capacity, Europe has major weaknesses and is well behind the United States in the use of the new information and communication technologies.