01Civic platform · Democracy
Open Parliament Belgium
Making the Belgian Chamber readable for everyone: who votes for what, who says what, who asks what. Every vote, every speech and every written question, explained plainly and sourced.
What makes it unique
- Ask a question, the AI answers“Who votes against their own party most often?”: a sourced answer, drawn from the Chamber’s official data.
- 150 MPs, all measured the same wayAttendance, votes, questions and speeches: one profile per MP, neutral and comparable.
- Four languages, one platformFrench, Dutch, English and German, each with its own addresses so it can be found on Google.
45,321speeches in the Chamber, made readable
The design · Open Parliament Belgium
- Typography
- Fraunces, a variable serif in a light weight, paired with Instrument Sans: the calm voice of a newspaper of record.
- Signature
- The Chamber’s hemicycle drawn seat by seat: 150 dots that take their place one by one.
- Detail
- A frosted-glass header that stays at the top, and section labels in widely spaced small capitals.
Under the hood · Open Parliament Belgium
- Custom-built
- Hand-coded, no CMS: a single stylesheet and two light scripts (32 KB).
- Speed
- The main content shows in 0.4 s; calibrated fallback fonts keep the page from jumping while it loads.
- Security and data
- Strict security headers (CSP, HSTS) and HTTP/3; 873 pages in four languages, and data that AI assistants (Claude, ChatGPT, Le Chat) can query.

