Officials study futurology of EU parliament

While MEPs continue to relish the extent of the European Parliament new powers in making EU laws, officials at the heart of the institution are looking into how the world's biggest transnational assembly is being transformed by the internet, new forms of governance and advances in IT.

Klaus Welle, the Secretary General of the parliament, is drawing up what might be described as the parliament's very own existential handbook.

It seeks to lay out how parliament will have changed by ...