European Union politics

This dataset provides the date, duration, and policy coding of more than 70,000 meetings of Council working parties, committees and ministerial formations in the Council of the European Union, covering all areas of its policy activities between 1995 and 2014. It also documents the birth, merger, split, succession, or death of working parties and committees, providing novel insights about changes in the organisational structure of the Council over time.

The EUPOL (Version 5) dataset includes virtually all information contained in the European Commission’s online database PreLex. The mission of PreLex was to monitor the inter-institutional decision-making process of the EU, providing information about various formal events and institutional actors involved in policy-making, as well as cross-references to documents contained in other online databases. In combination with its long-term coverage, starting in the mid 1970s, PreLex is a useful source of information for studies of long-term developments in EU politics and European integration.

One of the explicit goals of the Lisbon Treaty was to enhance the ‘efficiency and democratic legitimacy of the Union’. To increase the …

This article introduces the European Union Policy - Making (EUPOL) dataset. The dataset contains the complete records of the European …

The high success rate of Commission proposals seems to suggest that the European Commission is very influential in promoting European …

The proper distribution of powers between the supranational institutions and the member states of the European Union is the object of …