7 things you should know about the new

7 things you should know about 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. europarltv. europa. eu/en

A social media compatible website Share functionalities have been enhanced Like, tweet, recommend directly from the website RSS available for documents, committees, MEPs www. 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