A European Union Dashboard that provides:

1. EU policy wise distribution of budget/ expenditure

2. How much does enquirer’s country contributed to this policy wise

3. How much did he/ she himself/ herself contributed to this policy wise

4. How much time was spent in the EU parliament policy wise

5. How much time was spent by MEPs of his country policy wise

6. How much did his/ her country received from EU policy wise

7. How much did he/ her received from EU policy wise

This can be made as a mobile phone application/ web site information.

Who would benefit from it and how?

European Citizens will be benefitted by the transparency thus provided – and how he/ she/ MEPs of this country/ his/ her country is contributing and what benefits are accruing.

What data do you think you need in order to build it?

1. EU policy wise distribution of budget/ expenditure is published by EU

2. Member States wise contribution and benefits are published by Eurostat

3. Data about the budget of member states will detail the percentage of tax money contributed by a member states to EU. This data can also come from GNI (Gross National Income) of the member state as the contribution to EU is a percentage of this amount.

This data can be distributed (computed) as per the policy wise distribution of EU expenditure.

4. If the user provides his/ her tax paid information/ or his annual income – then his tax liability and what percentage of this got contributed to EU can be computed

5. EU parliament provides the details about policy was questions asked by MEPs – this can be used to depict the time spent policy wise by EU

6. The MEPs of the user’s own country – depending upon how many questions they asked in the EU parliament (this data is provided by EU parliament) will depict – how much time was spent by their own country in these policies

7. The benefit received by the member countries is also provided by Eurostat – this data can depict how much of these benefits policy wise got received by his/ her country. If divided by the population figures of the member country – this will detail how much of this amount can be considered to have come back to him/ her

This can be made as a mobile phone application/ web site information.