The biggest advantage of the revolving Presidency of the EU

The biggest advantage of the revolving Presidency of the EU

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Everyone knows that the turning Presidency of the European Council changes every six months and that is up to now a very important feature. It allow us to assess the evolution of the Presidency official websites It must be noted that:

• big emphasis is put on the thematic written alert services by email, RSS feeds, even SMS
• some offers are made to customize the webservice
• accessibility by disabled persons
• iPOD audio contents and video and also archives of audiovisual material
  
• the websites are in many cases sponsored, 
• the languages are the official language of the Member State which is in charge of the Presidency and english and french, 
• none of the Presidency websites has so far used the domain .europa.eu to identify the website

Source: Presidency websites

Unfortunately, there is no assessment of the size of the audience of these websites

“ The Presidency of the Council plays a vital part in the organization of the work of the institution, notably as the driving force in the legislative and political decision-making process. It has to organize and chair all meetings and work out compromises capable of resolving difficulties.

The Council is presided over for a period of six months by each Member State in turn, in accordance with a pre-established rota (unless a new Council decision is taken) “

An example, the present website of the Portugal Presidency (english version)

The home page (remarks)

Warning services

Content for PDA and mobile

Thematic alerts (but unfortunately not based on the results of a research)

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