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
• {eurlex-toolbox}: Parse Official Journals of the European Union
• {eurlex-parser}: Fetch and parse Eur-Lex documents
• {haveyoursay}: Retrieve and store data from the European Union's "Have Your Say" public consultation platform

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)
• Policymaking in the European Union 1958-2021 (EUPROPS)
• 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