Speeches, bills, laws.
Linked across Europe.
ParlLawSpeech (PLS) is an open dataset that links parliamentary speeches, draft bills, and enacted laws through a common identifier — so a debate, the bill it discussed, and the resulting law can be read together. Seven European legislatures, plus the European Parliament.
Eight legislatures, one common identifier.
The dataset's distinguishing feature is a linking key that ties speeches to the bills under discussion to the laws eventually enacted — within a country and, with consistent metadata, across them.
From ParlSpeech to the full pipeline.
PLS extends ParlSpeech v1 and v2 — which already covered nine legislatures of floor speeches — with linked bills and enacted laws. Common keys mean the full legislative arc, from introduction to enactment, is queryable as one corpus.
Built within OPTED Work Package 5, with funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 programme (grant 951832).
CC BY 4.0 on GESIS.
All releases are archived on the
GESIS Data Archive
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as .RDS for R; total release size is roughly 4 GB.