MEP of the Week makes one narrow thing easy to see: how transparently each Member of the European Parliament discloses their meetings with interest representatives, as they are required to do under Article 7 of their Code of Conduct. Lobbying is a legitimate part of law-making — the point of the rules, and of this site, is that citizens should be able to see it happening.

The site is deliberately boring about it: neutral wording, no scores of character, every number linked to the official European Parliament record it came from, and a methodology page that lists everything that can make a figure misleading. The weekly “MEP of the Week” feature highlights strong disclosure; the Watchlist flags where the record is thinnest — neither is an accusation.

Independence

This is an independent civic project. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to the European Parliament, any political group, party, or campaign. It receives no funding from any of them.

Data & licence

All source data is © European Union / European Parliament, reused under CC BY 4.0: the official MEP meetings search, the EP Open Data Portal, and the Legislative Observatory. Organisation register links point to the EU Transparency Register. Related independent work: Transparency International EU’s Integrity Watch EU.

Open source

The data pipeline and this site are open source: github.com/BusterFranken/mpoftheweek. The data refreshes every Monday; the current build is from 2026-06-04.

Corrections

Errors happen — in source data and in pipelines. If you spot one, report it or open a GitHub issue, and it will be reviewed before the next weekly build. MEPs and their offices are equally welcome to get in touch.