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oktober 2026

  1. Nieuw

    See one day at a time in the calendar (Link naar deze update)

    The calendar has a Day view on the same time grid as the week, with each sitting's title, time, committee and room. Open it from the view menu, a day's header in the week, or a date in the month.

    • Up to ten concurrent sittings sit side by side; busy days get wider columns and "+N more" opens the rest
    • Choose a time scale from 60 to 5 minutes, or a Monday-to-Friday work week, in the view menu
    • Hide the month panel to give the grid the full width; your choice is remembered
    Open today's calendar
  2. Nieuw

    Choose the topics you follow when you join (Link naar deze update)

    New accounts start by picking at least five topics from the policy areas we tag every bill with, busiest in your parliaments first. Explore suggests bills on them from day one.

    • Each busy topic shows how many bills were active in your countries this month
    • Followed topics are always from our list, so they match bills in every parliament
    • Your picks become your Explore topics: change them any time in Settings or Explore
    Open Explore
  3. NieuwDE

    Germany: the Bundestag and Bundesrat in PoliData (Link naar deze update)

    Follow German federal legislation from DIP: every Bundestag and Bundesrat stage of a procedure, with committees, roll-call votes and plenary sittings in the calendar.

    • Printed papers (Drucksachen) with full text; search in German or by number, e.g. BT-Drs. 21/6561
    • Enactment in the Federal Law Gazette (BGBl), linked to the EU directives a law transposes
    • Results of the 2025 Bundestag election in Elections
    • Not included yet: lobbying register (Lobbyregister) entries
    Browse German legislation
  4. Nieuw

    Sign up with Google or Microsoft (Link naar deze update)

    Create your account with Google or Microsoft: we fill in your name and email, you pick a plan and accept the Terms, and you go straight to setting up your trial.

    • Your name comes from Google or Microsoft, and you can change it before you continue
    • Gmail and Google Workspace addresses need no confirmation email
    • Email already in use? Sign in and connect Google or Microsoft instead
    • No password needed: set one any time with Forgot password
    Create an account
  5. NieuwEU

    What an EU procedure adopted, and when it applies (Link naar deze update)

    A concluded EU procedure now shows the act it produced: whether it is in force, when each part starts to apply, and the documents before and after adoption.

    • Entry-into-force and application dates by article, past and upcoming
    • Proposal, impact assessment, opinions and Parliament position in one list
    • Implementing and delegated acts, reports, amendments and consolidated versions
  6. NieuwEU

    EU transposition tracker (Link naar deze update)

    See when each EU member state notified the European Commission of the national laws that transpose a directive, and how that compares with the deadline.

    • Filter by member state, status, deadline or directive
    • Open a directive to compare all 27 member states and their notified measures
    • Polish and Dutch laws show how their country did on each directive they transpose
    • An EU flag tag on bill cards marks laws that transpose a directive or implement a regulation
    Open the tracker
  7. Nieuw

    See when a bill is up for debate or a vote (Link naar deze update)

    A bill's page now shows the sittings it's scheduled for, and each calendar event links to the bills on its agenda. The card appears only where the parliament publishes a schedule.

    • European Parliament votes without a roll call now appear, with their outcome and counts
    • European Parliament files list shadow rapporteurs and every committee that gave an opinion
    Open the calendar
  8. Nieuw

    Passkeys, two-step verification and device control (Link naar deze update)

    Protect your account with an authenticator app or a passkey, and see every device that's signed in to it. Sign out any one of them, or all the others, from Sign-in & security.

    • Sign in with a passkey, or use one as your second step
    • Recovery codes get you back in if you lose your authenticator app
    • Workspace owners can require two-step verification for every member
    • Sensitive changes, like new API keys or deleting a workspace, ask you to confirm it's you
    Open security settings
  9. Nieuw

    What's new, in one place (Link naar deze update)

    Every new feature, improvement and fix now lands on this page, newest first. Follow it by RSS, or open it from Help in the account menu.

    • A dot on Help in the account menu marks updates you haven't seen
    • Link straight to any update from its heading
  10. Nieuw

    Explore: search in plain language (Link naar deze update)

    Explore replaces Search. Type what you mean, like “pensions Poland” or “who voted for the nitrogen bill”, and phrases such as “last month” or “passed” become filters you can see and undo.

    • Typos are fixed for you, with a one-click way to search your exact words
    • Search in English, Polish or Dutch and find matching records in the other two languages
    • Suggestions as you type: your recent searches, completions, people and committees
    • ⌘K now searches every parliament in your workspace
    Open Explore
  11. Nieuw

    Reports that answer a question (Link naar deze update)

    Start a report by choosing a question, like what moved on your watchlists or where a member stands. You get a print-quality PDF in which every row says why it's there.

    • 10 report types, from Week ahead and Committee report to Member dossier
    • Mark watchlist bills Support or Oppose; Session outcomes counts your wins, losses and bills at risk
    • Export a one-page brief from any bill
    • Find bills to track by number or title, like druk 643 or H.R. 1744, ranked by relevance
    Create a report

september 2026

  1. Nieuw

    Read and compare official bill text (Link naar deze update)

    Bill pages have a Bill text tab. Read the official PDF or web version inside PoliData, or compare two published versions with every changed passage marked.

    • Step through changes with Next and Previous, or jump from the overview of edits
    • Open a change's page in the original PDF where page references are reliable
    • Incomplete or unverified scans are labelled and left out of comparisons
    Browse legislation

augustus 2026

  1. NieuwUKNL

    Election results for the UK and the Netherlands (Link naar deze update)

    A new Elections page maps results: UK constituencies with every candidate's vote share, and Dutch municipalities and electoral districts with the national seat allocation.

    • UK: drill from region to seat and see the sitting MP; click outside the shape to step back
    • UK: find a constituency by full postcode
    • Netherlands: see which party leads each area, by how much, and whether it held or gained the lead
    • Dutch member profiles now show their national list seat
    Open Elections
  2. Nieuw

    Daily Brief: what changed and what's next (Link naar deze update)

    The Daily Brief gathers what changed across your parliaments: a filterable queue, an AI-written overnight summary, yesterday's votes and the next 7 days. You land on it after signing in.

    • Mark changes read, save them to a watchlist or create an alert, one at a time or in bulk
    • Set a reminder before a committee hearing
    • Next 7 days includes UK chamber business, Sejm sittings, US floor votes and EU plenary votes
    • Set up a morning digest email
    Open Daily Brief

juli 2026

  1. NieuwUSUKEU

    Lobbying: who lobbies, funds and meets politicians (Link naar deze update)

    A new Lobbying workspace lists US lobbying firms and their clients, Super-PACs and EU lobby groups, with the bills they lobby on, the politicians they back and the MEPs they meet.

    • See which politicians each Super-PAC supports or opposes, and how much it spent
    • US politician pages show funding mix, top donor employers and outside spending
    • EU lobby groups show their budget band and MEP meetings; UK ministers' meetings show too
    • Basic view on Team and Pro; full detail on Business, Enterprise and Research Access
    Open Lobbying
  2. NieuwEUPLNL

    European Parliament votes, MEPs and transpositions (Link naar deze update)

    PoliData now covers the European Parliament: MEP profiles, how each MEP voted in roll-call votes, plenary sittings on the calendar, and links between EU directives and national laws.

    • MEP profiles with political group, member state, committees and photo
    • How each MEP voted, for roll-call votes
    • EU directives link to the Polish and Dutch laws that transpose them, and back
    • AI summaries of EU procedures draw on the adopted text where it's available