How frequently do you, or your staff on your behalf, use the following online tools/resources in your daily legislative work?

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MEPs use the internet daily in their legislative work

When MEPs need to research something, like most of us, they tend to google it. 93% of MEPs claim to use search engines for their daily legislative work. 65% visit Wikipedia style tools once a day or several times each week to understand legislative issues, while 36% visit blogs in the same period.

MEPs are using the internet to access traditional media. They check online versions of traditional newspapers on a daily basis, making it nearly twice as read as on specialist EU media.

While internet tools, such as RSS aggregators, that collect and sort information for the user may be a great way to save time in the online world, it would appear that MEPs still rely on others to filter content for them.