The mandate, on the record
Our Elected EU News follows the European Parliament, the European Commission and the Council of the EU — the files, the votes and the people your ballot sent to Brussels and Strasbourg. Primary sources, named positions, and a record you can check.
Directly elected
The only EU institution you vote for. MEPs decide in committee long before they decide in plenary, and roll-call votes put every name on the record — including the ones cast against a stated national position.
Proposes and implements
Legislation starts here, and a great deal of it is finished here: delegated and implementing acts turn a political compromise into the rule that actually binds, usually with far less attention than the original file.
The member states
National ministers legislating together, where the decisive argument is often settled by officials before a public vote is ever taken. What your government argued for in Brussels is rarely what it announced at home.
Votes, agendas, registers and the acts themselves. Where a claim rests on a document, the document is linked — not summarised and left unverifiable.
"Parliament rejected" tells a reader nothing about their own representative. Where a position is on the record, the person who took it is named.
Errors get a dated correction on the article that carried them. A quiet edit is how a newsroom spends the trust it is asking readers for.
Status
Coverage has not started yet. The newsroom is being built in the open: the reader accounts, the representative directory and the first desks are in development, and this page will carry the record as soon as there is one to carry.