Why are we writing about this topic? How come the other one is not included? Who chooses what are we going to write? Who is actually writing them? :) Simple questions that pop up to one’s mind when opening our website to find out what is happening in the Parliament?

 Same questions I had when I started my work here and some time after as well… even more of them came out after the first short Friday morning meeting in the cafeteria, when the schedule was announced for next week. But it would all became much clearer starting with next week for me.

 This is how it goes

 First, I have to say that we are all split into groups of three to five people, on different topics, so that we cover all main subjects from the House. Once a week we meet on the second floor to discuss the schedule. By rotation, one editor from each group has to join the meeting and present the suggestions on his/her topic to the others. All the ideas are further on debated for a short while within the meeting and then written down to be later on presented to the CED (this is the Comité Editorial), a body chaired by our director which approves the week’s schedule.

 But who is actually writing the synopsis for articles which will appear? Well, it is either the ones that suggest it, volunteers from the meeting, or in some cases, a lucky editor randomly chosen to do it. Normally, as a previous posting here explains, synopses are done by one or two editors, although two is preferable for a more concise masterpiece.

 But I forgot to explain about the ‘embedded editors’. To explain what this means, again by rotation, each editor will take part in the CED meeting and will therefore be in charge of providing the Monday synopsis on “EP Online this week”, an article explaining the agenda of the Parliament for the coming week.

 Quite easy, yet quite complicated, isn’t it? It just takes a bit of time, ambition, patience and enthusiasm to do it… and don’t we have it all?