After waves of protest, the Italian Liberal MEP Marco Cappato today closed the Parlorama website, which ranked MEPs based on their attendance in plenary sessions and committee meetings.
Cappato announced the opening of the website on Wednesday as part of his campaign for more transparency over MEPs' performance. He wanted to demonstrate that it was technically possible to collect and process data on MEPs' attendance and participation in parliamentary activities.
But scores of MEPs complained that the site gave a distorted view of their performance because of the way the rankings were calculated. There were particularly strong protests from members of Cappato's own group, the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe.
