This is the official website of the European Parliament, the directly elected legislature of the European Union, and not a news publication. The Parliament sits in Strasbourg for plenary sessions, holds committee work and additional plenaries in Brussels, and maintains its secretariat in Luxembourg. Members have been elected by direct universal suffrage since 1979, and the institution shares legislative and budgetary power with the Council of the European Union. The site publishes plenary and committee agendas, adopted texts, legislative procedure files, press releases from the Parliament's own press service, member profiles and voting records, multilingual explainers, live streaming of debates, and the output of its research service. It runs in the Union's official languages and is operated by the Parliament's administration rather than by any political group. The largest political groups maintain their own separate domains, which are measured as its closest online neighbours. Today, europarl.europa.eu is mainly focused on publishing the Parliament's legislative record, press material, member information and live proceedings for citizens, journalists, researchers and lobbyists, from their bases in Brussels, Belgium and Strasbourg, France. One interesting fact: what draws people to it is mostly individuals rather than legislation. Its top organic search terms are the names of members and political figures, including Vannacci, Jordan Bardella, Rima Hassan and Marine Le Pen, which means much of its search audience arrives looking up a politician rather than a directive.