Maintained by the University of Pittsburgh. Includes EU documents, journal articles and research papers

The Centre for European Reform is a think-Respected think tank aims to make the European Union work better and strengthen its role in the world. CER is pro-European but not uncritical

Surveys of party positions on European integration, ideology & policy issues. First survey in 1999, now repeated every 4 years. Includes all EU countries plus Norway, Switzerland, Turkey, with separate surveys for Balkan candidate countries.

Independent organisation exposing the power of corporate lobbying in the EU policy making arena.

Network of media agencies across Europe seeking to promote the dissemination of quality information to citizens across Europe

The official EU gateway to legal information, containing the Treaties, legislation, case-law, official documents (preparatory legislation) and the Official Journal (OJ).

Official gateway to the European Union.

See its Foreign Policy Scorecard which attempts to measure European success in the foreign relations arena.

ESO is maintained & updated by the Cardiff University Library EDC. Searchable database indexing primary and official sources, commentary and analyses, media reports, journal articles, blog posts, monographs and academic textbooks, etc. Whenever possible, links to the full content of the sources are provided.

Major US scholarly association involved in the study of the EU.

Extensive range of statistics at national and sub-national (NUTS) levels

Website analysing twitter use by MEPs July 2014-June 2019, now archived on the WayBack Machine

National Parliaments in the European Union Dataset (NPdata) is compiled by Thomas Winzen (University of Essex). It codes formal rights and mechanisms for parliamentary involvement in EU affairs from 1952 to 2020. It contains information on oversight institutions, which specify parliamentary information and participation rights in relation to the government’s involvement in EU policymaking.

Branch of the OSCE, involved with election observation, democratic development, human rights, tolerance and non-discrimination, and rule of law.

Respected free news service from Dod's.

EU funded project investigating electoral democracy in the EU.

Election manifestos, coalition agreements, government declarations and other documents of political actors. Contains more than 3000 political documents from 20 European countries

Well established online magazine, continuation of European Voice (held by library in print form).

Academics and journalists collaborate to produce a list of populist, far right, far left and Eurosceptic parties in Europe since 1998.

Monthly publication from the Library of the Council of the EU summarising research on EU issues.

Extensive database from Nottingham University on the composition (cabinets & party systems primarily) of European governments 1848-

EU-funded project examining news consumption and political polarization in Central and Eastern Europe (Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Serbia)

Cooperative effort by a number of libraries to preserve websites, social media, and other digital content related to the 2020 presidential election campaign in Belarus and the events that followed.

Radio station largely based in Poland, staffed by Belarusians, provides independent news service to citizens of Belarus

The only institution of its kind outside of Belarus, the library collection consists of over 20,000 books from various periods & in various languages. Most of them were published in Belarus. The library acquired various periodicals, including titles from the early years of Belarusian publishing. The Library also contains archival material

NGO funded by George Soros promoting democracy, civil society and EU integration in Bulgaria. Also produces handy Media Literacy Index (2017-) assessing the resilience potential to fake news in 41 European countries

Full text historical materials from the French parliament, including parliamentary debates from 1957 onwards (Les comptes rendus des debats de la IVe Republique (1er et 2 juin 1958- ); index general des travaux legislatifs en seance et en commission (1986-). Other features of the site include the full text of the current and historic French constitution; biographical information and listings of all French MPs since 1789 (Base de donnees historiques : Les deputes francais depuis 1789 ); notices et portraits des femmes deputees depuis 1945.

Project of the Konrad Adenaeur Stiftung

Aims to provide full text access to official papers from 1919 onwards.

Dataset covering all national public organizations since 1922, including government departments, state agencies and state-owned enterprises free registration required for full access.

Includes useful blog Irish Politics Forum discussing topical issues

Diplomatic documents of Switzerland, 1848-1975

Website resources archived by LC & others relating to the Ukraine Crisis (2014-)

Respected online English-language independent newspaper, launched in 2014 by Ukrainian volunteers following the Russian invasion of Crimea & parts of Eastern Ukraine.

Crowd-sourced effort, maintained by the Centre for Information Resilience, aims to map, document and verify incidents, human right abuses, bombings and violence

Key resource for data & reports on Ukrainian refugees & IDPs

Institute for the Study of War map of territory controlled, updated daily

Created by the Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University, it aims to create a site to encourage the teaching of Ukrainian history and culture through offering a space for the exchange of syllabi and course materials. Users can browse time periods and subject areas and get suggested books, literature & films about Ukraine