README.md

Data resources related to European integration

Thematic and cross-disciplinary collection of data resources relating to any facet of European integration.

R Packages

• {eurlex}: Retrieve Data on European Union Law
• {eumaps}: Tools to make maps of the European Union
• {evoeu}: The Evolution of European Union Law (EvoEU) Database
• {ecio}: The European Commission Internal Organization (ECIO) Database
• {euip}: The European Union Infringement Procedure (EUIP) Database
• {eusa}: The European Union State Aid (EUSA) Database
• {eutr}: The European Union Technical Regulations (EUSA) Database
• {eums}: The European Union Member States (EUMS) Database
• {iuropa}: An R Interface to the IUROPA API (access to the IUROPA CJEU Database)

Python Packages

• {pyeurlex}: SPARQL queries for the EU Cellar repository
• {eurlex}: An EUR-Lex parser for Python
• {eurlex2lexparency}: Transforming documents from Eur-Lex to Lexparency

Data

Links should be directly to websites where data can be downloaded from, not to papers. Use the most persistent URL available (eg DOI).

Decision-making / Legislation

• Decision-making in the European Union (DEU-III)
• Legislative Proposals in the European Union, 1965-2013
• EMU Positions Dataset
• European Union Policy-Making (EUPOL)
• Policy Complexity in the European Union (EUPLEX)
• Berlin Infringement Database (BID)
• The Evolution of European Union Law (EvoEU) Database
• The European Union Infringement Procedure (EUIP) Database
• The European Union State Aid (EUSA) Database
• The European Union Technical Regulations (EUTR) Database
• VoteWatch Europe 2008-2022

European Council / Council

• Debates in the Council of the European Union
• Political Attention in the Council of the European Union
• Political issue attention in European Council Conclusions 1975-2014

European Parliament

• European Parliament Election Study / Euromanifesto 1979-2014
• EPRG MEP Surveys 2000, 2006, 2010 and 2015 combined
• Bowler and Farrell’s survey of the 1989-94 EP
• Comprehensive European Parliament Electoral Data (COMEPELDA)

European Commission

• Composition of the College of Commissioners 1958-2014
• Portfolios, structure, and leadership of European Commission Directorates-General 1958-2020
• The European Commission Internal Organization (ECIO) Database

Court of Justice

• The IUROPA CJEU Database Platform
• The EU Free Movement of Goods Dataset
• GEOCOURT: Subnational Disparities in EU Law Use

Publications Office

• EU reference vocabularies and authority tables
• data.europa.eu - The official portal for European data

Political communication

• European Commission press releases 1985-2020
• European Commissioner speeches 1985-2020
• European Central Bank (ECB) speeches 1997-current
• EUSpeech: A New Dataset of EU Elite Speeches
• ParlEE Plenary Speeches 2009-2019

Public opinion

• Harmonized Eurobarometer 2004-2021
• Mannheim Eurobarometer Trendfile 1970-2002

Other

• CMP-ParlGov Government Positions Data
• The Party Political Make-Up of EU Institutions, 1979-2003
• 1999-2019 Chapel Hill Expert Survey (CHES)
• Expert Survey of Party Positions on European Integration 1984-1996
• National Parliaments in the European Union Dataset (NPdata)
• EUSSUE: Measuring issue attention in the European Union from daily news coverage
• European Union Sectoral Emissions Data (EUSED)
• The European Union Member State (EUMS) Database