Working with citizens and partners

The European Parliament has regular meetings with counterparts from the Member States’ national parliaments, in particular at committee level. The Parliament’s committees also regularly seek direct input from experts and stakeholders in public hearings, to feed their deliberations on specific topics. Citizens also have various means to make contact with the Parliament, either by visiting the institution, asking questions to the Citizens’ Enquiries Unit (Ask EP), submitting a petition for consideration by the Petitions Committee, or by contacting an individual Member directly. The figures below give a flavour of these activites in the eighth term, from July 2014 to June 2019.