7 things you should knowabout the new website of the
European Parliament
There is a new homepage - we call it the Portal
Main new feature of EP website : new home
Quick access through specific links
Latest news about the Parliament, the IOs, from committees and plenary
MEP search engine : the MEP «carrousel»
www.europarl.europa.eu/portal
From five to seven main levels of navigation
«Activities» becomes «Plenary», «Committees» and «Delegations»
Top level is now on the very high top corner of each page
Contextual links are now in the footer
www.europarl.europa.eu/plenary
New way of finding MEPs
EU Map and table MEPs still on the first page
New easy-to-use search engine
New MEP’s profile page
www.europarl.europa.eu/meps
It’s not really new - it just looks different
First major revamping for 6 years
Inspired by the most recent trends
Almost all the existing content is kept
www.europarl.europa.eu/aboutparliament
EPTV is your new TV
EP Live and europarltv have been merge into EPTV
One place to find europarltv’s programmes, live streaming and «video-on-demand»
www.europarl.europa.eu/eptv
A social media compatible website
Share functionalities have been enhanced
Like, tweet, recommend directly from the website
RSS available for documents, committees, MEPswww.europarl.europa.eu/rss
This is only the beginning
Redesign was a necessary step
Major and deeper changes are on the way
Next steps will happen in a more discreet way
Back-office technologies will be upgraded
New features will appear regularly