Editorial standards

Data coverage and status

The homepage selects only the newest vote belonging to a sitting whose import is marked complete. It shows the exact coverage end date and the time the application checked the readable record. When that endpoint is more than 45 days old, it labels the feed delayed or archived. The check time is not presented as Parliament ingestion telemetry.

No fresher headline is inferred from a calendar, press release or incomplete sitting.

Sourcing

Reporting is built on primary sources: roll-call records, committee documents, the Official Journal, the transparency and lobby registers, agendas, and the acts themselves. Where a claim rests on a document, the document is linked. A reader who wants to check us should not have to take our word for the existence of the evidence.

Where a document is not public, we say so — and we say what we asked for, and who refused it.

Naming positions

Institutions do not vote; people do. Where a position is on the public record, the person or delegation that took it is named. Where a vote was not recorded by name, we say that too, rather than implying a precision the record does not carry.

Independence

No political party, institution, campaign or advertiser has any input into what we cover, when we publish, or how a story is written. Advertising, when enabled, is sold programmatically; no advertiser will receive advance sight of coverage, and nobody will buy their way out of a story.

Staff political activity that could reasonably be read as a conflict is disclosed on the stories it touches.

Corrections

Errors get a dated correction on the article that carried them, saying what was wrong and what is right. We do not quietly edit a published claim and leave the page looking as though it always said the new thing: a silent edit spends exactly the trust a correction is meant to protect. The route for reporting one is here.

Who is responsible

Our Elected EU News is published by Craig Belluche. Editorial responsibility for everything on this site is held by Craig Belluche, who is a real person and can be written to at the address on our contact page.

That is here because it is load-bearing rather than decorative. A publication that computes figures about named politicians and will not say who stands behind them is asking readers for a trust it has not offered in return. It is also the line that decides how this site is treated under the EU rules on AI-assisted content and on political advertising, both of which turn on a named person carrying editorial responsibility.

Artificial intelligence and machine translation

AI tools may be used for research support, transcription and machine translation. Newsroom reporting copy is not autonomously published. Enabled machine translations are clearly labelled, keep the English original available and can be corrected; they do not claim human review. Official multilingual Parliament labels are identified as source data rather than newsroom copy.

A person must verify a translation before it is used as a controlling legal notice or for an assertion where a mistranslation could materially harm someone. Editorial responsibility remains with the named publisher for every language we make available.

Advertising and editorial

Advertising is labelled and visually separated from editorial content. Political advertising is prohibited. We do not publish paid content styled to read as reporting. Pages that exist only to carry advertising — thin aggregation, listicles assembled for traffic — are not part of the plan.