Summer reading: discover this year's most popular articles so far
Articles on our photography contest, Ukraine, social media, gender equality and the European integration of the Western Balkans have proved to be most popular on our website in the first half of 2015. Read our article to find out more and click on the links to discover them yourself.
1. Ready, set, click: take part in our guest photographer contest
Parliament's guest photographer contest. From January to September we pick a different topic linked to the European Year for Development and ask people to send us photos on that subject. Every month we pick a winner and the two overall winners will be invited to Strasbourg in November. Find out more in our top story.
2. Ukraine: timeline of events
An interactive timeline with all the developments in Ukraine from the Orange revolution to early 2015.
3. Subscribe, discuss, submit! The European Parliament on Reddit
In February 2015, the European Parliament joined one more social media platform: Reddit, also known as the “the front page of the internet”.
An interview from January with Belgian S&D member Marc Tarabella on the progress made in equality between women and men and the remaining challenges. “I think that gender equality is the equality of rights and accessibility. Men and women are not and never will be the same, but they should have the same rights,” he said.
5. Western Balkans: measuring progress towards European integration
What are the obstacles that Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Kosovo, Montenegro and Serbia need to overcome in order to join the EU in the medium term? The story published in March includes charts for economic and social data on these Western Balkan countries.
