The parliamentary questions of the Members of the European Parliament (“MEP”) are an essential tool of the “checks and balances” at EU level.
How to find the relevant questions (and of course the answers) without a subject-oriented help among the approximatly 5000 questions asked every year? At present it is impossible. The advanced search of the Europarl website offers many criteria but not such a thematic approach.
Ten years ago, Celex (a registered online service with payment) offered that opportunity (of course at that time not in a very userfriendly way) through the Eurovoc multilingual thesaurus.
Why not introduce again such a feature, of course with uptodate interface tools?
Sources :
Thesaurus Eurovoc
(which exists in 21 languages)
Example : Subject-oriented version, field 10, EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
Exemple : présentation thématique du
domaine « 10 » des Communautés européennes
Find a written question of a MEP of the EP
Stephane Cottin, le 13/08/2007
http://www.servicedoc.info/Chercher-une-question-ecrite,2023.html
The following law blogs tackle also the same problem:
Comment faire un
lien vers une question d’un parlementaire européen (how to "deeplink" to a parliamentary question)
Des nouvelles --
bonnes et moins bonnes -- des questions des parlementaires européens
Les questions
parlementaires et les réponses de la Commission ne sont plus disponibles dans
toutes les langues (the parliamentary questions are no more avaiable in all the officail languages)
Emmanuel Barthe,
19/08/2007
http://www.precisement.org/blog/article.php3?id_article=191
EU Questions on
.eu domain
Post dated 14/08/2007
http://domaine.blogspot.com/2007/07/eu-questions-on-eu.html
Advanced search form for WQ by Europarl
Search with Google, Yahoo, Exalead (without a relevant result): it must be noted that these search engines don't use subject-oriented approach.
Comments