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