Making the EU work for you - how to influence the EU

There are ways to influence what the EU is doing at every stage of policy and law making, and equally there are many ways to make the Union work for you.

You can follow precisely what is happening in the institutions - Parliament, Council and Commission, through their websites. You can find them all at: http://www.europa.eu.

And the Parliament and Commission have offices in Dublin designed to provide information about what they are doing. The Council does not have a separate office in Ireland as it is made up of the member states' governments, and so its Irish representative is the Oireachtas.