EuropeScope: Making European decision-making more transparent
EuropeScope
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is an independent platform that helps people understand how decisions
are made in the European Union. Built entirely on official open data
from the European Parliament Open Data Portal
[https://data.europarl.europa.eu/] and the Council of the European
Union public voting register
[https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/documents/public-register/votes/],
the platform turns complex legislative information into explainable
and auditable intelligence. It provides a comprehensive view of EU
lawmaking, covering parliamentary votes, Member of the European
Parliament (MEP) activities, committees, national delegations and
Council voting records. 

The platform analyses thousands of roll call votes, representing
millions of individual voting positions, and offers detailed
breakdowns by political group and country. Users can explore profiles
for all MEPs, including attendance, voting behaviour, authored
reports, and parliamentary questions, the number of rebel votes cast
against their own political group, and the number of plenary speeches
they have delivered, each linked to the official record. EuropeScope
also highlights collaboration patterns through co-signature networks
that show how MEPs and European political groups work together across
party lines  and enables side-by-side comparisons between individual
MEPs.Beyond individual profiles, the platform reveals how the
Parliament votes by policy topic, how each national delegation votes
as a bloc, and where national delegations were internally divided
rather than voting as one. It also provides visual representations of
the parliamentary committees and the European political groups, making
the structure of the Parliament easy to grasp at a glance. Its value
was recently demonstrated during high-profile ‘chat control’ vote,
when the platform showed how every MEP voted within hours of the
result.

EuropeScope also offers a dedicated dashboard for every member state.
For each country, users can see how its national parties vote, compare
the highest- and lowest-attendance MEPs, examine how the delegation
aligns with or diverges from the wider European Parliament, and
explore which topics most divide its representatives. This
country-level view turns a continent-wide dataset into something
immediately relevant to a national audience.

Open data is at the heart of EuropeScope. By processing and
structuring European Parliament and Council datasets, the platform
makes European decision-making easier to understand and verify.
Wherever possible, users are linked directly to the original
institutional records, helping to ensure transparency and trust. In
addition, EuropeScope published its methodology and provides a public
application programming interface, allowing journalists, researchers,
and civic organisations to verify findings and build upon the data
themselves. 

EuropeScope offers a powerful way to explore the legislative process.
Visit the EuropeScope platform to discover voting records, analyse
parliamentary activity and explore how open data can strengthen
democratic transparency across Europe. 

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Publication Date/Time
2026-09-11T08:00:00+00:00
A free platform transforms official European Union legislative data
into accessible insights for all