1. 7 things you should know about the new website of the European Parliament

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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