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Parliament Radar reports what the European Parliament does. It is written for people who work with the Parliament every day and need the essentials of a plenary week in a few minutes.

What we cover

In plenary weeks, the Radar has six parts:

1. What goes to a vote. The laws and the annual budget on the agenda, with the rapporteur's group and the groups that have a shadow rapporteur on each file. The full agenda is in the Parliament's own plenary newsletter, in 24 languages, and we link to it.
2. Rising. The dossiers gaining momentum. The calculation is on the methodology page.
3. In the news. The Parliament's votes, files and MEPs that news outlets wrote about most that week. We write a short summary of each and link to the articles; we never copy them.
4. What was voted. The result of each item, under its official title. We list the week's laws in full and show group by group the three closest votes decided by a simple majority. A vote that needed a majority of all MEPs and failed with more votes for than against gets a note of its own.
5. How each group voted. Position, cohesion and splits, for all groups in every vote.
6. How each country voted. The 27 national delegations side by side on every vote page, and a note on the delegations that broke with their group.

In weeks without a plenary session, we publish Rising, dossier pages and specials.

What we do not do

• We do not tell anyone how to vote, and we do not support or oppose any party, group or candidate.
• We do not forecast votes or elections.
• We do not publish opinion pieces.
• We do not cover national politics, except where it reaches the European Parliament.

Who it is for

• MEPs and their teams, in every group.
• Staff of the political groups and of the European parties.
• Journalists, researchers and organisations working on transparency.
• Anyone who wants to follow the Parliament, through short summaries and videos on social media.

How we write

• The number comes first, with its source in the same sentence.
• Groups appear in one order in every table and text: by size, as the Parliament lists them (EPP, S&D, PfE, ECR, Renew, Greens/EFA, The Left, ESN), with non-attached members (NI) last. It is the Parliament's own order. Full names and seats are in the methodology.
• We explain what was counted before we say what it means.
• We use no adjectives about people. When we name an MEP, it is for something they did, and the data that shows it is beside the name.
• Groups and parties are called by their names. A label for a political family appears only when we quote an external source, and then for every side alike.
• Sentences are short and plain, with no slogans, no capitals for emphasis, no outrage headlines and no emoji.
• Each number comes with what it cannot tell you.

Language

The Radar is written in English, and titles are the Parliament's official English titles. When a title or a quote is our own translation, we say so.

AI and human review

We draft texts with AI tools. Every number is computed by code from the data; the language model writes no numbers. Before publication a person checks the numbers against the data tables, along with the names and facts, and logs the check: the date, what was checked and who approved it.

Nothing is published without that check. If a piece ever went out without it, it would carry a notice saying it was generated with AI, in place of the review line. Our videos are narrated with an AI-generated voice made for the Radar, which imitates no real person, and the first frame and every caption say so. The script is written from the data, and our editor checks it against the numbers on screen before the video goes out. Our weekly Monday video on Instagram, Facebook and TikTok is presented by an AI character, labelled "AI presenter" in the first frame and in our profiles. It is not a real person, has no accounts of its own and never quotes an MEP. Its face and voice are generated with AI; the script and the numbers are checked by our editor.

Corrections and replies

When we get something wrong, we correct it within 48 hours and put a dated note at the top of the piece. Published numbers are never changed silently, and every correction is listed on the corrections page.

MEPs, groups and parties mentioned in a piece can send a reply. A reply that shows an error leads to a correction; one that adds a relevant fact goes into the piece, with the date. Write to radar@parleon.eu.

What we never publish

• Sponsored content, paid posts or boosted posts.
• Pieces requested by a client or by any political actor.
• Texts reviewed before publication by the people they cover.
• Numbers without a source.
• Names of MEPs' assistants.