Visitors are met with airport-style x-ray machines at all entrances, followed by electronic scanners which read your identity badge and pull up your profile on a screen.
As well as providing new internet space, officials in Brussels hope the new domain name will help promote the identity of the EU itself on the electronic media.
Voting will be electronic - one machine will identify voters' fingerprints, and a second will recognise identity card numbers and register the vote anonymously.
Audit requirements are satisfied by including with every electronic document a separate certificate of completion and a legally binding audit trail with the identity of the signer, a time stamp, and location information.