European Parliament Speeches from Italian, German, French, and Belgian MEPs, 2019-2023

Nearly 18,000 speeches by European Members of Parliament (MEPs) between 2019 and 2023. The speeches are from Italian, German, French, and Belgian MEPs and were scraped from the European Parliament website by the author 'misclassified'.

Use Cases

• Train multilingual language models based on political speech text.
• Analyze political rhetoric and topics across European member states.
• Conduct sentiment or stance analysis on parliamentary speeches.
• Study temporal trends in European parliamentary discourse between 2019 and 2023.

Strengths

• Nearly 18,000 individual speech records.
• Covers a defined 4-year time period (2019-2023).
• Multilingual content from four European countries.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is approximate; exact data structure is unknown.
• Data may reflect geographic bias, covering only four of the 27 EU member states.

Provenance

Source

European Parliament website.

Collection Method

Scraped using code from a linked GitHub repository.

Time Range

2019-2023

Freshness

Last updated 2024-01-14 20:45:53; freshness should be verified.

Geography

European Parliament (speeches from Italian, German, French, and Belgian MEPs).