RECONNECT Representative Claims Analysis

RECONNECT is a four-year multidisciplinary research project on ‘Reconciling Europe with its Citizens through Democracy and the Rule of Law’, aimed at understanding and providing solutions to the recent challenges faced by the European Union (EU). With an explicit focus on strengthening the EU’s legitimacy through democracy and the rule of law, RECONNECT seeks to build a new narrative for Europe, enabling the EU to become more attuned to the expectations of its citizens. RECONNECT brings together 18 academic partner institutions from 14 countries.

This dataset results from Representative Claims Analysis conducted under the Horizon2020 project RECONNECT. It was coordinated by Anna Gora and Pieter de Wilde at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) between 2019 and 2022. The dataset contains 5384 claims made in debates in Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Poland and Denmark, in twelve newspapers, on the issues of migration, counter terrorism, Economic and Monetary Union and trade between 2011 and 2019.