Public Voting Data of the Council of the EU

This data set contains the voting behaviour of EU member states in public votes of the Council of the EU from 2010 to 2021. Particular attention was given to the following issues: How often did the Council adopt decision by consensus despite voting under qualified majority? Which member states are most often outvoted? Did these pattern change during the Covid-19 pandemic, when the Council had to resort to video meetings? To answer these questions, a new dataset of public data from the EU was cleaned for easy access and analysis. This dataset encompasses all voting data from the public votes in the Council of the EU from January 2010 to November 2021. Due to the rules of procedure of the Council of the EU, only legislative votes are made public. The collected data therefore necessarily encompasses only a limited, self-selected number from all votes in the Council. As of November 23 2021, 1.288 votes are available.

本数据集包含2010年至2021年期间欧盟成员国在欧盟理事会公开投票中的表决行为。研究重点关注以下问题：尽管采用特定多数（qualified majority）表决规则，欧盟理事会通过共识作出决定的频率有多高？哪些成员国最常被否决？在新冠疫情（Covid-19）期间，当欧盟理事会不得不采用视频会议时，这些模式是否发生了变化？为回答这些问题，研究人员对欧盟公开数据进行清理，构建了一个便于获取和分析的新数据集。该数据集涵盖了2010年1月至2021年11月期间欧盟理事会所有公开投票的表决数据。根据欧盟理事会的议事规则，仅立法表决会对外公开。因此，所收集的数据必然仅涵盖欧盟理事会所有表决中有限的、经过自我筛选的部分。截至2021年11月23日，共有1288次投票数据可供使用。