EUX.TV

EUX.TV is a former independent digital multilingual television station that covers European Union (EU) policy news from Brussels.

EUX.TV's main diffusion methods are via its website and via YouTube. It serves a daily online menu of news videos, interviews and reportage.

The channel is based in the International Press Centre in Brussels. EUX.TV was created in 2006 by business journalist Raymond Frenken, former EU Correspondent for CNBC Europe and former Amsterdam bureau chief for Bloomberg News.

Since May 2010, EUX.TV has been a service provided by EurActiv EUX.TV Video SPRL, a Belgian joint company specializing in online video production for the European-policy community in Brussels. Event videos and policy videos are its main production services. In 2012 the name of the channel was changed to EurActiv Video.

EurActiv is the independent online network dedicated to EU policy, counting 590,000 monthly unique visitors.

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European Parliament

The European Parliament (EP) is the directly elected parliamentary institution of the European Union (EU). Together with the Council of the European Union (the Council) and the European Commission, it exercises the legislative function of the EU. The Parliament is composed of 751 (previously 766) members, who represent the second largest democratic electorate in the world (after the Parliament of India) and the largest trans-national democratic electorate in the world (375 million eligible voters in 2009).

It has been directly elected every five years by universal suffrage since 1979. However, turnout at European Parliament elections has fallen consecutively at each election since that date, and has been under 50% since 1999. Turnout in 2014 stood at 42.54% of all European voters.

Although the European Parliament has legislative power that the Council and Commission do not possess, it does not formally possess legislative initiative, as most national parliaments of European Union member states do. The Parliament is the "first institution" of the EU (mentioned first in the treaties, having ceremonial precedence over all authority at European level), and shares equal legislative and budgetary powers with the Council (except in a few areas where the special legislative procedures apply). It likewise has equal control over the EU budget. Finally, the European Commission, the executive body of the EU, is accountable to Parliament. In particular, Parliament elects the President of the Commission, and approves (or rejects) the appointment of the Commission as a whole. It can subsequently force the Commission as a body to resign by adopting a motion of censure.