Fabian Bohnenberger

I am excited to share my new application that makes EU legislation easier to follow.

It is the result of countless hours, thousands of lines of code and millions of datapoints. The goal? To cut through the complexity of EU law-making.

Following EU legislation can feel like wandering through a maze – complex procedures, many actors, obscure databases – it is easy to get lost.

No more. With this tool, you get clear, interactive visuals that show what is happening – and why it matters.

👉 Try it here

Why I built it

For years, I found EU databases and commercial data providers too static and difficult to navigate. They give experts access to information on individual files, but they rarely reveal the bigger picture.

I wanted to change that by turning dense legislative data into something you can see and interact with. Building on the visual work from my blog, my ambition is to let you seamlessly zoom in and out of the EU law-making process.

I am not there yet – but this application is a first step: a navigator of legislative complexity.

With President von der Leyen’s State of the Union speech on 10 September 2025, now is the perfect time to explore how new initiatives move through the legislative process.

What you can do with it

From high-level overviews of the legislative pipeline to details of each file, everything you need is in one place. With just a few clicks, you can:

• Follow procedures step by step
• See which institutions and actors are involved
• Explore the rulebook by theme
• Keep track of compliance deadlines
• Access most official documents instantly

I currently include legislative files proposed since January 2019 into the application but will expand the dataset in the future. This limit also means that a few older pending files are not yet reflected in my data.

Try it now and share your thoughts

The application is open access for now – just in time for the busy autumn legislative period.

👉 Explore the application here

I’d love for you to try it, share it and help shape its development. Feedback is crucial as I iron out bugs and add more data and features.

A quick note: because of the visuals, the tool is not optimised for mobile devices and works best on a large screen.

Bringing together legislative data from different sources is challenging, but my goal is simple: to make EU law-making easy to follow – whether you are a policy pro or just curious about how decisions get made in Brussels.

Because EU law-making is complex, but accessing it shouldn’t be.

✨ Coming next: a series of posts that explain each page of the new application in detail: Part 1; Part 2