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Spanish parties in EU decision-making: key positions and coalitions

How much actual agreement is there between Spanish parties at the EU level? In this report we look at how the Spanish parties position themselves and make coalitions when key EU policies are on the table in Brussels and Strasbourg.

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Italian parties in EU decision-making: key positions and coalitions

How much actual agreement is there between Italian parties at the EU level? In this report we look at how Italian parties position themselves and make coalitions when key EU policies are on the table in Brussels and Strasbourg.

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Brexit: the power of data predictions

Political data provided signs of increasing divergence between London and Brussels way before the Brexit vote in 2016. Learning from these past examples can help us predict the likelihood of similar events occurring in the future.

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European Parliament: current and future dynamics

How are coalitions built on specific topics and who wins? At such a pivotal moment for EU stakeholders, we are providing our public with a detailed analysis of the trends observed during the first 6 months of the new EP term and what these mean for how future EU legislation is going to be shaped.

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Proposed mandate for negotiations for a new partnership with the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Votes for
543
(83%)
Votes against
39
(6%)
Abstentions
69
(11%)
Required to pass
292  
Joint text on the general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2020, Adoption of the legislative act
Votes for
21
(76%)
Votes against
6
(22%)
Abstentions
1
(2%)
Required to pass
16 and 65%

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Top 100 most influential EU Parliamentarians

This report shows which MEPs have been the most influential towards the end of the parliamentary term. The study also reveals which national groups have been punching above/below their weight when it comes to influencing European policies through the EP.  Read More

UPDATED: Who holds the power in the European Parliament? Assessing the influence of individual MEPs

One year after the publication of our report on the influence of the Members of the European Parliament, we updated our findings to take into account the developments occurred over the last year. This assessment shows which MEPs have been the most influential over the current term. Read More

Survey results: who will lead the EU after 2019?

How will the EU institutions look like after the 2019 reshuffle? VoteWatch Europe has surveyed more than 1.000 members of the broader ‘EU bubble’ for their views regarding the reallocation of top EU positions in 2019. This report shows the full results of our research. Read More

Which MEPs changed their votes the most in the current EP term?

The European Parliament has a rather unusual mechanism that is known by very few people and which allows the MEPs to effectively change the way they voted after a decision has been made This report reveals which MEPs have ‘corrected’ their votes and why this may have happened. Read More

France more likely than Germany to lead the EU Council after Brexit, voting records in the Council show

Our analysis is based on the same dataset that indicated that the UK was increasingly outvoted in the Council in recent years, thus predicting the centrifugal policy orientation of the British government. Now, we are using the same type of analysis to predict what will happen next. Read More

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