'Lisbon Changes' highlights the main developments in the EU institutions and decision-making processes brought about by the Treaty of Lisbon.

'Europa Changes' provides expert advice on navigating the new Europa website and its subsites, including EUR-Lex and Eurostat.

Delegates can attend one session or both. Prices for EIA members are £90 half day, £140 full day; non-member prices are £125 and £175 respectively.
The draft programmes can be viewed via our Training page, which also has an online booking facility.

Whilst never a favourite for an easy read, the Bulletin was considered by many to be an essential tool for researchers.
Combined with the downgrading of the General Report into a glossy, poorly-referenced publication, the demise of the Bulletin makes one worry for the future of serious EU information tools.

The Bulletin page now directs visitors to the press pages of Europa, where many will struggle to find information of a similar quality, as most press releases don't even quote COMdoc numbers!

EuroSavant
Following news that one of the winners of the Association’s 2010 Award for European Information Sources was PressEurop, we were asked to bring to readers’ attention the blog EuroSavant, which offers commentary on the European non-English-language press. EuroSavant has been published since 2003 - albeit with a break from 2005 to 2008. A one-man operation, it aims to alert its readers ‘to interesting on-line articles, blog entries and the like written in any of a number of European languages (both major and minor) which would therefore ordinarily render them inaccessible.’

Do you know if the European Citizens Initiative Regulation has been published yet? And when it is, how can I check its progress?
The quick answer is ‘no’ it hasn’t, although the Commission wants the ECI legislation in place before the end of this year, which suggests the proposal will be issued soon.

Theoretically, the place to watch is the Commission's ECI page, but it’s quite likely that the Commission will issue a press release about the Regulation, so it’s worth watching the Press Room (though beware that many Commission press releases are issued before official texts are published on EUR-Lex, and many don’t even give the document reference).

Once the draft is issued, you'll be able to trace progress via PreLex, using the COMdoc number.

On the bright side, because the ECI is a significant initiative, publication of the draft Regulation will be picked up by many news services and will of course feature on the EIA’s news update.