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# Net making EU public sphere possible
- URL: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/net-making-eu-public-sphere-possible/
- Published: 2008-04-09T09:04:24.000Z
- Updated: 2019-02-14T22:40:04.000Z
- Author: openDemocracy Supporters
- Tags: #en, #Migrated, #Import 2026-04-09 18:41

**Jon Bright (London,** [**OK**](http://ourkingdom.opendemocracy.net/?ref=opendemocracy.net)**):** I picked this up thanks to Jon Worth's [excellent Euroblog](http://www.jonworth.eu/how-effective-is-your-mep/?ref=opendemocracy.net). Romanian Institute IPP have set up a new website which allows you to [track the performance](http://www.ippro-mep.eu/index.php?lang=en&ref=opendemocracy.net) of your MEP - and the 750 odd others that are out there. I realise, of course, this will be somewhat of a minority pursuit, and there are more than a few people who would rather do away with the whole lot of them than pick through how they are voting. But, for a Europhile (albeit sometimes sceptical) such as myself it's another small sign that, if such a thing as a European "public sphere" is to develop or could possibly develop (a big if), it is the existence of the internet that makes this possible - its ability to do things the printed press could never have dreamed of. A political union of the type the EU is developing (which is still directionally unclear, and still very much contested) would simply be unimaginable without technological advance - and tools like this one seem to me to be a small contribution to this project.