Touching the reader.

I am talking about the mysterious “citizen” to whom we explain in as light as possible a manner what the EP is dealing with. We want to do it in such a way that a person with little background knowledge would get it, but it is still more often easier to write for somebody who takes an active interest, who knows a bit about legislative procedures, what a plenary sitting is, a hemicycle, co-decision and an MEP.

Apart from family at home who are forced to follow the EP website in order see if I am still alive, have I ever met a reader? Yes and no. It always makes my day when I hear a lobbyist in Place du Luxembourg commenting one of our articles. It made me fly when a EU friend of mine was linking one of our articles in Facebook. And I love to see a blog or even an online newspaper stealing a piece of our work (it happens quite often!).

Still, months pass and I cannot get rid of the feeling that I want to meet one of the tens of thousands of people visiting our website daily. Want to meet the real reader, to hear what they have to say, what they like, what they hate, what more they want to know, how we can do things better.