In December, we gave you a first glimpse of Power, our English-language vertical dedicated to decoding the power struggles, institutional mechanics and political strategies that shape European Union decisions.

Power has been live since 3 March.

As a Power subscriber, you will gain access to:

• A daily newsletter: The essential morning briefing that sets your day’s agenda
• In-depth articles: Investigative articles that explain the “why” and “how” behind the headlines
• Exclusive leaks: First-hand access to the files driving the legislative process
• Precision monitoring

But Power is more than a new editorial line.

With this launch, we’re extending our monitoring capacity across EU institutions, connecting analysis with our in-house tools for keyword alerts, instant transcripts, an up-to-date MEP directory and dedicated thematic pages that consolidate all information around your EU files.

Contexte is built for professionals who need to anticipate policymaking — not react to it.

Focus — Legislative files, centralised

Focus brings together all related content for a specific legislative file into a single, structured page.

It combines editorial coverage, official documents and key monitoring elements to give you a complete, up-to-date view of the file.

In one place, you can understand its current status, the political stakes and what’s evolving — without navigating between multiple sources or pages.

Available in Essential

MEP Directory — Political positions through amendments

The MEP Directory provides a structured view of political positioning through concrete legislative activity.

Each profile provides detailed information on members of the European Parliament, including the amendments they have tabled and their involvement in specific files.

By analysing this activity, you gain clear insight into policy stances, influence patterns and emerging alliances — making it easier to map coalitions and understand negotiation dynamics within Parliament.

Available in Essential

Keyword alerts — Monitoring official documents

Keyword alerts automatically track official EU sources and notify you whenever your selected topics appear in newly published documents.

By setting up customised keywords, you create a continuous monitoring layer that scans institutional outputs for you — so you don’t have to manually check websites or PDFs.

Each alert provides immediate notification, allowing you to identify new developments or policy signals when they are published.

Available in Advanced

Transcripts — Searchable debate intelligence

Transcripts turn hours of parliamentary debate into searchable, structured intelligence.

With word alerts, you can track specific keywords across official EU meetings and receive notifications the moment your topic is mentioned — completed with additional context and speaker’s information.

Because the full text of each meeting is searchable and notifiable, you can also detect indirect or unexpected references in sessions you weren’t actively following. This helps you to capture early political signals, limit blind spots and anticipate risks before they appear in formal documents.

Available in Complete

Contexte is strengthening its European offering with a new editorial vertical, dedicated to monitoring the mechanics of the European Union , and new product features.

Get a sneak peek of our upcoming European vertical

We are delighted to offer you a first glimpse into Power, our upcoming English-language vertical dedicated to unpacking the power struggles and power games that shape the European Union .

With Power, our journalists will provide daily analysis of the inner workings of the European institutions, the decisions that guide EU action, and the strategies of the players who influence key issues.

The second vertical in our EU Edition after Energy will officially launch on 3 March 2026.

Until then, you can enjoy free preview access to selected content.

Be among the first to discover exclusive content from Power before its official launch.

How can you access the content ?

1. Register here.
2. You will then receive exclusive preview content every week, directly by e-mail.
3. This access is free and without obligation. It will end at the official launch on 3 March 2026.

Keyword alerts dedicated to European documents

To receive alerts, you must configure your keywords in Englishto be consistent with the language of the documents being tracked.

Sources currently covered (beta feature)

Alerts currently apply to the following documents:

• European Commission proposals: draft regulations and directives
• European Parliament committee reports: draft reports and reports submitted to plenary

The directory gets a makeover

Our directory is evolving to become more comprehensive and easier to read:

• New filters allow you to refine your searches more easily.
• Key information is highlighted, such as the number of amendments tabled by each parliamentarian.

The result: a clearer and faster overview of the activity of the elected representatives you follow.

On the agenda:

• A dedicated space where you can find all our free-to-access content
• A special page for Contexte Live

A new space for freely accessible content

Providing information to a wide audience is part of our mission.

Now, you can access all our free content with a single click from a single space on our website.

Each free-to-access article is clearly identified with a badge, so you can easily find content that you can read and share without a subscription.

View our subscription-free content

A page dedicated to Contexte Live

Every month, our journalists analyse the latest political news live on video and answer your questions.

Catch every live event! A new page, accessible from our website menu, now details the schedule of upcoming events and allows you to register with a single click.

This page also features replays, so you can watch or rewatch past live events.

Watch or rewatch Contexte Live

This month, we’re rolling out two big improvements for users who have advanced functional coverage on French editions:

• Our alerts centre is more useful, and easier to configure and navigate.
• The directory now covers all French and European parliamentarians.

Alerts centre: What has improved?

The design of the alerts centre has been overhauled to provide a more efficient, centralised experience.

The result? Easier access to the information you need.

Better navigation with a tailored interface

The alerts centre now features an improved, more ergonomic design: unread alerts are highlighted to help you keep track of them more easily.

Streamlined monitoring: Legislative alerts integrated in alerts centre

The results from text monitoring in our legislative monitoring tool are now integrated into the alerts centre, along with your keyword alerts.

All your alerts are now conveniently grouped together in a single space for more straightforward monitoring.

Smarter tracking: Alerts grouped by keyword or bills

To help you track your chosen subjects more effectively, alerts are now automatically grouped:

• by keyword for thematic alerts – each tracked keyword groups together the associated results, regardless of their source; and
• by bills for follow-up alerts (PJL, PPL, etc.) – this allows you to:
• follow the progress of a bill more easily;
• find the history of related publications; and
• quickly identify new articles associated with a file you’re following.

Effortless customisation: Set your alerts – your way

Alert settings have been completely redesigned for more streamlined usage. You can now manage your alerts directly from the alerts centre without having to switch pages.

Choose your sources (bills and amendments, Journal Officiel, debates):

• Schedule how often you’d like to receive alerts.
• Select the format and delivery channel.

All options are visible at a glance, making it even easier to tailor alerts to your needs.

Stay updated each morning: Find all your alerts in Briefing+ 

Until now, only a few keyword alerts were visible at the end of a briefing. Now all the alerts that you’ve set up will appear in a clearer format. You can find all the alerts you’ve received in the past 24 hours by reading your briefing on the website.

You can:

• identify the latest alerts where new content has appeared; and
• get one-click access to cited sources (legal texts, debates, documents, articles and more).

The directory has been expanded to include senators

The directory now brings the following together in a single space:

• French Members of Parliament
• French senators
• Members of the European Parliament

Following the introduction of the MPs (in March) and MEPs (in May), senators will now be included in the directory. The updated directory is accessible to all subscribers, and allows you to:

• consult amendments table by each senator;
• search by keyword (e.g. “hydrogen”, “budget”, etc.); and
• filter by results (accepted, rejected, etc.);

What’s new:

• The EU Edition is live, starting with a dedicated Energy section
• Navigate the interface in the language of your choice (FR/EN)
• Explore an expanded directory featuring Members of the European Parliament

The EU Edition is live, starting with a dedicated Energy section

Contexte is going international! This month, we’re launching a new English-language edition that’s focused on European public policy—with Energy as the first section. It’s a major step that strengthens our position as the go-to media outlet for public affairs professionals.

Why this matters

• EU dynamics increasingly impact your core issues: energy sovereignty, climate, competitiveness, the Green Deal, and more.

What to expect from Energy

• A dedicated newsroom based in Brussels, with a team of 8 journalists—the largest editorial team covering energy policy in the Brussels bubble
• An editorial approach that is independent, factual, and technical, designed for public affairs professionals
• Exclusive, actionable content:
• Daily briefings at 8 am
• Scoops and strategic documents
• In-depth legislative analysis
• MEP Directory (beta)

Navigate the interface in the language of your choice (FR/EN)

You can now choose your preferred interface language (menus, navigation, labels). This preference applies to your account and all your devices.

It does not affect the language of editorial content, which remains defined by the edition selected (FR or EU).

Explore an expanded directory with MEPs

Our parliamentary directory is expanding! It now includes Members of the European Parliament, along with incumbent French MPs.

You can now:

• Search for an MEP by name.

• Access a detailed profile, which includes:
• the full history of amendments submitted;
• a keyword search tool (e.g. "hydrogen");
• filters by submission date; and
• key information such as country of origin and political group affiliation.

This expanded directory helps users work more efficiently by identifying the appropriate stakeholders and their positions on key issues, at both national and European levels.

What’s new:

• Get a better picture of the political positions of French MPs
• Find internal contacts on the “My Account” page

Get a better picture of the political positions of French MPs

Save time when preparing for meetings or researching key players with the new keyword search feature and advanced filters, which are available for each French MP’s profile. These tools help you to quickly identify the most active lawmakers in your areas of interest.

Keyword search

Each MP’s page includes a search bar where you can enter a keyword (e.g. “hydrogen”, “building permits” or “renewable energy”) to find out if the MP has submitted amendments on a particular subject.

Filters & sorting

You can also filter amendments by:

• Status (adopted, rejected, withdrawn, inadmissible, etc.)

And sort them by:

• Date of submission
• Legislative file, to group all amendments on a specific bill

Explore the amendements

Find internal contacts on the “My Account” page

The “My Account” page now displays:

1. the contact for your subscription manager within your organisation; and
2. the name, email address, and phone number of your Contexte account manager.

You can now contact them directly without having to go through a support channel.


Visit the "My account" page

What’s new:

• Go deeper with the new Briefing+ on contexte.com
• Find key information about French MPs in one place
• Access all your tools and resources more easily
• Save time with AI-powered transcripts
• Explore our updated subscription plans

Go deeper with the new Briefing+ on contexte.com

On Monday, 3 March 2025, your daily briefing on contexte.com got a major upgrade.

Each morning, subscribers will have access to an enhanced version of the briefing – available exclusively on our website. Say hello to Briefing+, an interactive workspace that’s designed to help you keep your finger on the pulse, drive decisions and act faster.

With Briefing+, you can now:

• track amendments in a single click;
• preview documents by hovering;
• share updates with your team;
• find all your keyword alerts in one place; and
• jump straight to the theme you are working on.

Briefing+ is your new command centre—and we’re just getting started. We’ll continue to roll out more features over time.

Discover briefing+

Find key information about French MPs in one place

We’ve launched a directory of French MPs. You can now access a full list of all the amendments that each member of the National Assembly (Assemblée nationale) has tabled since being elected.

This feature is available to all subscribers, with additional content – such as biographical information, contact details and more filters – being included throughout 2025. It will become the French Parliament Directory when senators are added.

Access all your tools and resources more easily

From Briefing+ and the directory to infographics, keyword alert settings and AI transcripts, the menu on contexte.com has been redesigned to help you navigate more quickly to the tools you use every day.

Save time with AI-powered transcripts

Our AI Transcripts feature, which was previously available in beta, has been widely adopted, and is now officially part of the complete feature set of our new subscription offer.

It gives you full, searchable transcripts of any parliamentary debate.

Explore our updated subscription plans

All these updates (and more) are now clearly presented on our new public offer page: get.contexte.com. You’ll find detailed information about our subscription plans and what makes Contexte unique – plus the ability to schedule a call with our team.

Feel free to share this link with anyone who may benefit from Contexte.

To learn more, contact your account manager directly.

View all your keyword alert results directly on our website.

Our alerts centre, accessible by clicking the 🔔 icon at the top right of your screen, now automatically centralises all your keyword alert results.

You’ll receive notifications based on your preferences, either in real time as soon as the content is published or in a daily digest at 8am, depending on the keywords you selected when setting up your alerts.

This new feature simplifies access to essential information, allowing you to manage your alerts and personalise your monitoring – without relying on email.

All your alerts are automatically stored in the alerts centre. You can now choose to stop receiving them by email, and access them only via on-site notifications if preferred.

What’s changed

• The list of alerts is on the left of the screen.
• Alerts are shown in chronological order, so you can quickly review recent results. Each alert is related to keywords that you can configure on the alert settings page.
• You can now mark alerts as read or unread.
• Details about the alert is on the right of the screen:
• Each alert displays a snippet of text, where the keyword is highlighted, thereby offering a quick overview without additional navigation.
• You can now track legislative files directly if the alert is related to one.

• Notification preferences :

You can now choose not to receive email alerts at all, and rely solely on the Alerts Center.

What’s new:

• Select preferred sources to monitor for keyword alerts
• Streamline your daily monitoring with AI transcripts
• Add AI transcripts as a source for your keyword alerts
• Filter your searches
• Search directly within a transcript

Select preferred sources to monitor for keyword alerts

Until now, alert sources had to be selected in the Contexte Lab. You can now manage them directly when adding or editing your keywords, which makes for a faster, more intuitive set-up.

Head to the keyword alert settings page to enable the new option and start customising your sources with just a few clicks.

Once activated, you can choose and manage sources directly from the keyword alert form – you no longer have to go through Contexte Lab.

Streamline your daily monitoring with AI transcripts

Our AI-generated transcripts of French parliamentary debates are created from videos published by official institutions (National Assembly and Senate).

Each transcript is made available within one hour of the video’s official publication – providing you with reliable, structured content that’s ready to be analysed.

Add AI transcripts as a source for keyword alerts

Enable this option to include AI transcripts among your keyword alert sources so that you’re notified as soon as one of your chosen topics is mentioned during a session.

Filter your searches

Use the search bar to filter by source or date to quickly find the transcript you’re looking for.

Search directly within a transcript

Easily search for specific words or phrases within the body of any transcript.

When we launched the new version of contexte.com in early November 2023, we aimed to align the site with our new visual identity: new logo, new fonts, new colours, an updated graphic style — with a strong focus on accessibility.

But we weren’t entirely satisfied with the homepage. Initially, it focused only on articles, but this didn’t reflect the full range of our editorial coverage, especially our daily briefings.

That’s been fixed! Here’s a quick tour of what’s new:

Access the content that matters most to you – faster

On the new homepage, you can browse our most recent content by topic, organised around the key stories of the moment.

So instead of being scattered across the page, all content related to the 2024 legislative elections, for example, is grouped in one dedicated space.

Another improvement is that your briefings are now featured right at the top of the homepage – just a click away.

Discover more tailored content

This new entry point to contexte.com is also personalised. It highlights recent briefings and articles from your subscribed editions, along with related topics that you might find useful.

These updates are just the beginning. Our homepage will continue to evolve in the coming weeks and months – always with the same goal in mind: to make it easier for you to access the content that matters.

Happy reading!

What’s new:

• Get help more easily
• Ask questions
• Browse our help center
• Find what you’re looking for, faster
• Reposez vos yeux

Get help more easily

Ask questions

You may have already spotted it: a small blue icon in the lower-right corner of your screen now appears whenever you access the “My Account” section of our site. It’s your shortcut to support.

Have a question about your subscription? Is there a broken link? Didn’t receive your briefing this morning? Need help using our legislative monitoring tools?

With just two clicks, you can now message our customer success team, who will reply within the day.

Don’t hesitate to reach out whenever you may need assistance.

Browse our Help Centre

We’ve compiled answers to frequently asked questions – such as “How do I add a new team member to my subscription?” – as well as product user guides in our new Help Centre.

Find what you’re looking for — faster

Our search engine has been updated to help you find more relevant results. Here are three new features (with more coming soon):

1. Search terms are now highlighted in yellow in articles and briefings.

Searching for the term “industrie verte” (“green industry”)

2. No more duplicates! If you’re subscribed to multiple editions, identical or similar briefings are now grouped together, saving space in your results.

3. We’ve added a synonym dictionary to the search engine. Terms like Projet de loi and PJL are now recognized as the same thing. The same applies to PPL, PLF, PLFSS and PLFR. The dictionary will continue to expand.


Searching for the term “PJL industrie verte” (“green industry”)

Happy searching !

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To turn it on or off, scroll to the bottom of the side menu to select your preferred theme: light, dark or automatic (to match your system settings).