I’ve recently had drawn to my attention a rather handy site called European Law Monitor. The site is aimed at constituents and organisations who need fairly detailed information on EU legislative proposals – what their content is, what stage they’ve reached in the legislative procedure, and how best to influence them. If banging your head against the virtual brick wall of europa.eu.int is starting to cause bruises, I can highly recommend it.

I also hear on the grapevine that ELM is planning to try to get more MEPs involved in the site so it can become less of a one-way lobby portal and more of a two-way interaction. Anything which helps to improve dialogue between citizens and their elected politicians has got to be a good thing! Watch this space.