Introducing the EU Rule of Law Tracker

Methodological Supplement

Author
Affiliation

Carlos A. Toruño Paniagua

The World Justice Project

Published

December 5, 2024

Abstract

This paper introduces the EU Rule of Law Tracker, a project aimed at systematically tracking, classifying, and analyzing social and political events related to the rule of law across the 27 member states of the European Union. While existing indices, such as the World Justice Project’s Rule of Law Index, rely on expert assessments and public perceptions to evaluate key dimensions of the rule of law, they may not fully capture the connection between perceptions and tangible events. Leveraging news archives and advances in machine learning and artificial intelligence, particularly Large Language Models (LLMs), this initiative seeks to complement perception-based metrics by building a comprehensive event database. This document details the data extraction process, classification methods, use of LLMs for analysis, and future directions for the project …

Keywords

Rule of Law, Large Language Model, News tracker

1 Introduction

Tracking the conditions surrounding the rule of law is essential for understanding the medium- and long-term evolution of social and political institutions within a country or region. Currently, there are several measures and indices aimed at assessing the rule of law globally, one of the most prominent being the Rule of Law Index (ROLI) produced by the World Justice Project (WJP). Like most similar measurements, the ROLI relies heavily on expert assessments and public perceptions, evaluating eight key dimensions of the rule of law: constraints on government powers, absence of corruption, open government, fundamental rights, order and security, regulatory enforcement, civil justice, and criminal justice (Botero and Ponce 2011). These perception-based metrics provide valuable insights into how various aspects of the rule of law are viewed. However, they may not always link changes in perceptions to specific, tangible events. Given the complexity of the rule of law and the limited pool of experts qualified to assess it, having a compendium of concrete events—such as judicial rulings, electoral processes, protests, and government actions—becomes increasingly valuable. Such a database, when properly compiled and organized, can help to assess, contextualize, and validate perception-based findings, providing a more comprehensive and reliable understanding of the state of the rule of law.

There have been various initiatives aimed at developing tools to track rule of law events in the past (Hertogh 2024; Barendrecht 2011). However, the complexity of the concepts involved, overlapping definitions, data limitations, time constraints, among other challenges, have made this a difficult endeavor. Despite these obstacles, recent advancements in fields such as machine learning and artificial intelligence, combined with greater accessibility to large data pools, open new possibilities to produce more accurate and efficient results at lower costs.

In this document, we are introducing the EU Rule of Law Tracker, an initiative that is focused on tracking, classifying, analyzing, and producing insights on social and political events related to the Rule of Law in the 27 members of the European Union. This initiative makes use of news articles archives and Large Language Models (LLM) in order to produce a systematized database for researchers to assess and validate perceptions on the rule of Law in the targeted countries.

The document is structured in seven sections. After this brief introduction, we introduce the conceptual framework that will guide the classification, analysis, structure, and organization of our data. In the third section, we discuss the process and logic followed for the extraction and translation of the input data. The fourth section is focused on the use of LLMs to help us classify the extracted data. The fifth section covers the use of LLMs to help us summarize the information into brief media reports that can complement and facilitate the work of researchers when having to assess changes in people’s perceptions. The sixth section explain the use of some Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques to get further insights from the final database. Finally, the last section provides some brief overview on the next steps and potential extensions.

Figure 1: Overview of the Process

2 Conceptual Framework1

2.1 Macro-concepts

The term Rule of Law refers to a system in which law is able to impose meaningful restraints on the state and individual members of the ruling elite. It refers to a governance principle in which all persons, institutions, and entities, public and private, including the State itself, are accountable to laws that are publicly promulgated, equally enforced, and independently adjudicated, and which are consistent with international human rights norms and standards.

We extend this concept further by defining the Rule of Law as a rules-based system in which the following four universal principles are upheld. First, the government and its officials and agents are accountable under the law. Second, the laws are clear, publicized, stable, and fair, and protect fundamental rights, including the security of persons and property. Third, the process by which the laws are enacted, administered, and enforced is accessible, fair, and efficient. Lastly, access to justice is provided by competent, independent, and ethical adjudicators, attorneys or representatives, and judicial officers who are of sufficient number, have adequate resources, and reflect the makeup of the communities they serve.

Given the previous definitions, we can infer that the Rule of Law is a multidimensional concept that extends over eight basic pillars: limited government powers; absence of corruption; order and security; fundamental rights; open government; effective regulatory enforcement; access to civil justice; and an effective criminal justice.

From a political science perspective, these factors draw on four basic ideas related to the relationship between the state and the civil society: the checks and balances on the government’s power, the effectiveness of the state in performing its basic functions, participation and collaboration between the state and its citizens, and absence of arbitrary abuse by the authority.

We define Justice as the ethical, philosophical idea that people are to be treated impartially, fairly, properly, and reasonably by the law and by arbiters of the law, that laws are to ensure that no harm befalls another, and that, where harm is alleged, a remedial action is taken - both the accuser and the accused receive a morally right consequence merited by their actions.

Justice also refers more specifically to the set of institutions and services that allow for the impartial mediation and adjudication of disputes arising from the violation or conflicting interpretations of laws, including the enforcement of decisions or agreements reached through their operation.

Finally, we define Governance as the mechanisms, processes, and structures through which public institutions operate and make decisions for the welfare and benefit of their respective communities. This encompasses the way governments and local authorities are organized, how policies are formulated and implemented, how resources are allocated and managed, and how public services are delivered to citizens.

2.2 Pillars of the rule of law

2.2.1 Constraints on Government Powers

Measures the extent to which those who govern are bound by law. It comprises the means, both constitutional and institutional, by which the powers of the government and its officials and agents are limited and held accountable under the law. It also includes non-governmental checks on the government’s power, such as a free and independent press. Additionally, it measures the absence of authoritarianism, which includes the accountability of the Chief Executive, and its respect for checks and balances. In more detail, this pillar is related to the following topics:

  • The active and reactive transparency of legislative bodies (senate, parliament, assemblies), its ability to impose disciplinary measures to government officials, and if there is representation of disadvantaged groups, as well as citizen participation. It also measures if the opposition can express its opinions and if it exercises its functions of overseeing and investigating the government.
  • The independence of the judiciary, by means of having sufficient resources and professional judges, with adequate rights and competencies, as well as its ability to impose disciplinary measures on government officials.
  • The independence and effectiveness of oversight institutions, such as the Supreme Audit Institution or comptroller, anticorruption authority, human rights institution, the office of the ombudsman, and prosecution services, as well as if civil servants are free from political pressure, and are effective in implementing public policies.
  • Whether elections are free of barriers of entry, intimidation, corruption, and criminality, in accordance with the law, with equitable access to resources, free from misinformation, secure from cyberattacks and with protection of personal. It also measures the effectiveness and independence of the electoral authority.
  • The effectiveness of non-governmental checks on the government’s power, such as the media, CSOs, political parties, activists, and citizens. It includes their effective exercise of the freedoms of assembly, association, opinion, and expression, and the rights to petition and civic engagement.
  • The accountability of the Chief Executive or the Head of Government, and its respect for the constitutional order, the law-making process, the outcome and quality of elections, civil liberties, political opponents, as well as the independence of the judiciary and oversight institutions. It also measures the likelihood of sanctions to officials for misconduct.
  • Whether members of the legislature, judiciary, elected leaders or high-ranking government officials, public sector employees, and police officers, who abuse their power are sanctioned for misconduct.

2.2.2 Abscense of Corruption

Measures the control of corruption in various forms: bribery in administrative and political proceedings, graft, embezzlement, fraud, payroll fraud, asset misappropriation and skimming, nepotism, favoritism, patronage, illegal campaign financing, electoral fraud and vote buying. In more detail, this pillar is related to the following topics:

  • The prevalence of bribery in the delivery of public services and regulations, as well as in the political process.
  • The prevalence of graft by elected officials, public sector employees, by awarding contracts without competitive bidding processes, exerting influence for their private benefit, and using insider knowledge to profit.
  • The prevalence of embezzlement or misappropriation of public funds, payroll fraud, asset misappropriation and skimming, as well as of nepotism, favoritism, and patronage.
  • The prevalence of nepotism and favoritism by elected officials, public sector employees, judges, and prosecutors. It also measures the prevalence of patronage by elected officials.
  • The prevalence of corruption in elections, including illegal campaign financing, manipulation of elections, and vote buying.

2.2.3 Open Government

Measures the openness of government defined by the extent to which a government shares information, empowers people with tools to hold the government accountable, and fosters citizen participation in public policy deliberations while maintaining an open civic space. This factor measures whether basic laws and information on legal rights are publicized and evaluates the quality of information published by the government. In more detail, this pillar is related to the following topics:

  • Whether requests for information from the public to government agencies and institutions are granted, and if these requests are granted within a reasonable time period, with complete and pertinent answers, at a reasonable cost and without having to pay a bribe for the information.
  • Whether people are aware of their right to information, and whether relevant records are accessible to the public upon request.
  • The effectiveness of non-governmental checks on the government’s power, as well as the openness of the civic space and the extent of citizen participation. It includes the effective exercise of the freedoms of assembly, association, opinion, and expression, and the rights to petition and civic engagement.

2.2.4 Fundamental Rights

This pillar recognizes that a system of positive law that fails to respect core human rights established under international law is at best “rule by law,” and does not deserve to be called a rule of law system. This aspect focuses on rights that are firmly established under the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, but only includes a relatively small number of rights which are most closely related to rule of law concerns. In more detail, this pillar is related to the following topics:

  • The protection of rights related to dignity, including the prohibition of torture, slavery and forced labor.
  • The protection of rights related to freedom, including freedom of thought, conscience, religion, peaceful assembly, association, opinion, and expression, as well as the right to property and to asylum.
  • Whether civil society organizations are free to comment on government policies, without fear of retaliation. In addition, it also measures if quarantines and lockdowns are applied proportionately, not discriminatory, with limited duration and in accordance with the law.
  • Whether independent media, civil society organizations, members of the opposition, opposing factions of the governing party, activists, whistleblowers, and individuals are free to report and comment on government policies, without fear of retaliation.
  • The extent to which the media publish credible fact-checked information, and if its editorial content is independent from political influences, as well as if it can conduct investigations and expose cases of corruption without facing surveillance, harassment, threats, legal actions, or administrative sanctions.
  • The extent to which the government allows the formation or operation of CSOs, and the formation or operation of opposition parties.
  • Whether the government respects the property rights of people and corporations, refrains from the illegal seizure of private property, and provides adequate reasons and compensation when property is legally expropriated. It also measures if the process for transferring a property is simple and quick. In addition, it measures if foreign investors receive fair and equitable treatment from the government, and the effective enforcement of anti-squatting laws and intellectual property rights.
  • Whether the government respects the right to asylum and refugees can move freely within the host country, have access to legal work and state services such as education, accommodation, meals, healthcare, and cash benefits, as well as legal documentation and economic opportunities.
  • The protection of rights related to equality, including equality before the law, and absence of discrimination based on socio-economic status, gender, ethnicity, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, or gender identity.
  • The protection of rights related to solidarity, including labor rights such as workers’ right to information, consultation, collective bargaining, access to placement services, and protection in the event of unjustified dismissal, as well as the prohibition of child labor.
  • The protection of rights related to citizens´ rights, including political rights such as the right to vote and to stand as a candidate at European Parliament and municipal elections, to information, petition, movement, and of residence.
  • The protection of rights related to justice, including the right to effective remedy and to a fair trial, presumption of innocence, and to defense, as well as rights of the accused including principles of legality and proportionality of criminal offenses and penalties, and the right not to be tried or punished twice.

2.2.5 Security

Measures the assurance of the security of persons and property. Security is one of the defining aspects of any rule of law society and is a fundamental function of the state. It is also a precondition for the realization of the rights and freedoms that the rule of law seeks to advance. We are excluding armed conflict from this pillar. In more detail, this pillar is related to the following topics:

  • The extent to which people feel safe and secure in their city, town, or village, and in their neighborhood.
  • The extent to which the State is able to keep crime and violence to minimum levels.

2.2.6 Regulatory Enforcement and Enabling Business Environment

Measures the extent to which regulations are fairly and effectively implemented and enforced. Regulations, both legal and administrative, structure behaviors within and outside of the government. This factor does not assess which activities a government chooses to regulate, nor does it consider how much regulation of a particular activity is appropriate. Rather, it examines how regulations are implemented and enforced. In more detail, this pillar is related to the following topics:

  • The extent to which the legal framework for businesses is clear, accessible, and predictable, as well as the respect for property rights.
  • Whether the government respects the property rights of people and corporations, refrains from the illegal seizure of private property, and provides adequate reasons and compensation when property is legally expropriated. In addition, it measures if foreign investors receive fair and equitable treatment from the government, and the effective enforcement of anti-squatting laws and intellectual property rights.
  • Whether the process for transferring a property is simple and quick.
  • The extent to which the government audits and inspections are conducted in accordance with the law and are free of corruption; if complaint mechanisms are simple, accessible, and cost-effective, and if regulation authorities are impartial, and if they sanction violations.
  • Whether environmental and labor regulation authorities sanction violations, such as occupational safety and business license or zoning violations.

2.2.7 Civil Justice

Measures whether ordinary people can resolve their grievances through formal institutions of justice in a peaceful and effective manner, as well as in accordance with generally accepted social norms rather than resorting to violence or self-help. Access to civil justice requires that the system be accessible, affordable, effective, impartial, and culturally competent. In more detail, this pillar is related to the following topics:

  • Whether justice institutions help prevent legal and justice needs. It also measures whether authorities tolerate illegal activities such as squatting, street vending or informal labor arrangements.
  • Whether people are aware of their rights, formal justice, and alternative justice mechanisms, and know where to get information and advice when facing a legal problem.
  • Whether can access and afford legal advice and representation; and can access the court system without incurring unreasonable fees.
  • Whether the civil justice system is impartial and free of discrimination, corruption and undue influence from the government and private interests.
  • The effectiveness and timeliness of the enforcement of civil justice decisions and judgments in practice.
  • Whether alternative dispute resolution mechanisms (ADRs) are available, accessible, affordable, impartial, timely, effective, enforceable, and free of corruption and undue influence from the government and private interests.

2.2.8 Criminal Justice

Evaluates a country’s criminal justice system. An effective criminal justice system is a key aspect of the rule of law, as it constitutes the conventional mechanism to redress grievances and bring action against individuals for offenses against society. An assessment of the delivery of criminal justice should take into consideration the entire system, including the police, lawyers, prosecutors, judges, and prison officers. In more detail, this pillar is related to the following topics:

  • Whether criminal investigations are effective, timely, impartial, and free of corruption and undue influence from criminal organizations and political and private interests.
  • The effectiveness of prosecutors in investigating crimes, and if pre-trial proceedings are timely, outcome-oriented, impartial, and free of corruption and undue influence from political and private interests.
  • Whether trials are timely, outcome-oriented, impartial, and free of corruption and undue influence from political and private interests.
  • Whether alternative dispute resolution mechanisms (ADRs) are available, accessible, affordable, impartial, timely, effective, enforceable, and free of corruption and undue influence from the government and private interests.
  • Whether victim’s rights are effectively guaranteed, including treatment with respect, absence of discrimination, timely and sufficient information, and protection.
  • Whether the basic rights of criminal suspects are respected, including the presumption of innocence and the freedom from arbitrary arrest and unreasonable pre-trial detention. It also measures whether criminal suspects are able to access and challenge evidence used against them, whether they are subject to abusive treatment, and whether they are provided with adequate legal assistance. In addition, it measures whether the basic rights of prisoners are respected once they have been convicted of a crime.
  • Whether the prison system guarantees conditions of safety and order and respects the rights of people deprived of their liberty. It also measures the absence of corruption and the effectiveness of the prison system in reducing recidivism.

1 The concepts outlined in this documents are largely based on a preliminary version of the European Union Subnational Indicators: Conceptual and Measurement Framework document developed by The World Justice Project. For more information please consult the document here.

3 Extraction and Translation

The first step in designing the EU Rule of Law Tracker was to identify, gather, and compile the information that would serve as the primary input for the tracker. Several inputs such as official records, social media, academic research, and think tanks publications were considered. Several sources, including official records, social media, academic research, and think tank publications, were considered. After a careful review, it was decided to use news articles for the pilot version of the tracker due to several advantages.

First, multiple data archives offer harmonized databases for a wide range of newspapers from around the world, often accessible via Application Programming Interfaces (APIs). These databases are frequently updated, providing near real-time access to the latest events. In contrast, alternative data sources, such as academic publications and official records, generally have longer research, editorial, and publishing times, resulting in less timely information compared to most newspapers.

Second, news articles come from a wide variety of media outlets. Each with its own editorial line and cultural context. Given the political nature of the events that are usually associated to the Rule of Law, it is of highly importance to ensure the diversity of viewpoints so our final outcome have a more nuanced understanding of how the events are shaping the political and social environment across different countries.

Third, newspapers create a historical record of events that can be tracked over time. They also offer a resource that is easily accessible to the general public. Moreover, competition for readership among newspapers often drives journalists to provide additional research, background information, and context, enhancing the quality of reporting.

On the other hand, relying on news articles as the primary data source for tracking democracy and rule of law events also presents some drawbacks. The most significant challenges are the risks of media bias, subjectivity, and sensationalism. Additionally, the quality and consistency of data can vary significantly between sources, posing risks related to misinformation, lack of depth, and disparities in regional coverage.

To mitigate these potential risks, we limited our selection to 211 newspapers. The list was curated based on five key criteria to ensure balanced and reliable coverage:(i) editorial influence, (ii) historical significance, (iii) audience reach, (iv) diversity of editorial perspectives, and (v) regional representation. Additionally, the newspapers were categorized to identify priority and high-priority sources within each of the 27 member states of the European Union. Of the 211 sources, 153 were designated as priority, while 84 were labeled as high-priority. The full list of data sources can be found in Section 8.1. Due to limited resources during the news extraction phase, only high-priority sources were used in the pilot version of the tracker.

Having identified and delimited the pool of data sources for the study, we needed a way to access and download the news articles for the tracker. For this purpose, we made use of a news API service called Newscatcher. A news API is a programming interface that allows users to access and retrieve news articles from a wide variety of sources. By using HTTP calls, we are able to access the data archive compiled by the company and retrieve news articles based on some query parameters. The Newscatcher API allows to search news based on dates, languages, sources, URL, among other optional parameters. Additionally, their data archive tracks all of our 84 high-priority newspapers.

However, it is not possible to directly query for news articles solely related to our definition of the rule of law. As a workaround, we developed queries using specific keywords associated with our definition of the rule of law and its dimensions, as well as broader concepts like justice and governance. Our strategy focused on performing a wide search rather than a narrow search. In other words, we intentionally used broad, general keywords to ensure that our results included a wide range of articles, even at the risk of retrieving some unrelated content. This approach was chosen to avoid excluding potentially relevant articles. The process of refining the search results through text classification using Large Language Models (LLMs) is covered in detail in Section 4.

For the extraction, we defined a total of 137 keywords. These keywords are divided into 123 language-based keywords and 14 country-based institutional keywords. The language-based keywords encompass common nouns that are shared across countries that shared the same official language. For example “Kongress” is the German word for Congress and it can be equally used in news articles from newspapers in Germany as well by newspapers in Austria. However, even when these two countries share the same language, they might refer to some institutions in different ways. For example, “Verfassungsgerichtshof” is how Austrian newspapers might refer to the Constitutional Court, while German newspapers might refer to it as “Bundesverfassungsgericht”.

Depending on the language of publication of each targeted newspaper, we will use a combination of language- and country-based keywords (see Figure 2). For example, the newspaper “De Standaard” in Belgium publishes news in Dutch. Therefore, we will use the 123 language-based keywords in Dutch (also used in some newspapers from the Netherlands), as well as the 14 Belgium institutions names in Dutch (unique for Belgium). On the other hand, the Belgium newspaper “Le Soir” publishes their news in French. As a result, we use the 123 french keywords (also used for Newspapers in France), as well as the 14 Belgium institution names in French (unique for Belgium newspapers). The definition of keywords was made in English and then manually translated to the other 22 languages used by the rest of the targeted newspapers.2 The full list of keywords can be consulted in Section 8.2.

2 The translation of these keywords involved a combination of desk research, translation engines, and native speaker consultations when possible.

Figure 2: Keywords used for extraction

Due to quota limitations at the time of the extraction,3 a time range of eight months was targeted for most countries with a few exceptions (see Table 1). A total of 904,944 news articles were gathered from the Newscatcher data archive. The data consisted of tabular data in JSON format. The response object returned by the API contained some information from the news articles such as the published date, title, content, language, URL, and if the article was coming from an opinion column or a regular section of the newspaper. The code used for the extraction phase can be found in the Extraction notebook in the supplementary materials to this manuscript.

3 At the time of the extraction, Newscatcher was transitioning from version 2 to version 3 of their API. While the v2 version of their API was able to go further back to even 2 years in the past, the v3 version was only able to capture news articles from the past 3 months. Due to technology transitions, we had a limit of 20,000 calls for their version 2, which is equivalent to a total of 800,000 news articles

Table 1: Total news extracted per country
Country Total News Extracted Date Range
Austria 46,145 Mar 06, 2023 - Mar 07, 2024
Belgium 21,287 Jun 07, 2023 - Mar 07, 2024
Bulgaria 38,118 Jul 07, 2023 - Mar 07, 2024
Croatia 37,068 Jul 07, 2023 - Mar 07, 2024
Cyprus 34,955 Jul 07, 2023 - Mar 08, 2024
Czechia 41,415 Jul 07, 2023 - Mar 08, 2024
Denmark 11,312 Aug 07, 2023 - Mar 07, 2024
Estonia 12,370 Aug 08, 2023 - Mar 07, 2024
Finland 6,647 Aug 08, 2023 - Mar 07, 2024
France 64,527 Aug 07, 2023 - Mar 07, 2024
Germany 45,321 Jan 08, 2024 - Mar 07, 2024
Greece 49,504 Aug 08, 2023 - Mar 07, 2024
Hungary 18,111 Aug 08, 2023 - Mar 07, 2024
Ireland 48,409 Aug 08, 2023 - Mar 07, 2024
Italy 93,858 Aug 08, 2023 - Mar 07, 2024
Latvia 5,487 Aug 09, 2023 - Mar 07, 2024
Lithuania 14,396 Aug 08, 2023 - Mar 07, 2024
Luxembourg 7,894 Aug 08, 2023 - Mar 07, 2024
Malta 10,842 Aug 08, 2023 - Mar 07, 2024
Netherlands 23,935 Aug 08, 2023 - Mar 07, 2024
Poland 21,434 Aug 08, 2023 - Mar 07, 2024
Portugal 29,624 Aug 08, 2023 - Mar 07, 2024
Romania 33,264 Aug 08, 2023 - Mar 07, 2024
Slovakia 34,874 Aug 08, 2023 - Mar 07, 2024
Slovenia 10,211 Aug 08, 2023 - Mar 07, 2024
Spain 112,820 Aug 08, 2023 - Mar 07, 2024
Sweden 6,417 Jan 08, 2024 - Mar 07, 2024
Total 880,245

The titles and content of the news articles were returned in their original publication languages, resulting in a diverse collection of information in 23 different languages: Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish, and Swedish. While this linguistic diversity highlights the cultural richness of the region, it also presents challenges for accurate classification and text analysis.

The LLMs used in this project are multilingual models, but their accuracy in text classification can vary across languages (Unanue, Haffari, and Piccardi 2023). To ensure consistency during the classification process and to facilitate the use of NLP techniques in the data analysis phase, we decided to translate all the data into a single language. Since most LLMs are primarily trained on English data, we chose English as the target language for translation. To guarantee the highest quality, we used the Google Translation API to translate all of our text data. The code used for the translation phase can be found in the Translation notebook in the supplementary materials to this manuscript.

A total of 808,429 news articles, equivalent to 93.9% of the total number of articles extracted, were successfully translated. This lost of information was due to several reasons such as API connection failures, news articles with empty content, corrupted text data, unidentified source language, among other reasons, unusually long text, among other reasons. Column 4 in Table 2 contains information on the success rate per country during the translation process.

Table 2: Translation Process (Rate of Success)
Country Extracted News (n) Translated News (n) Translated News (%)
Austria 46,145 44,181 95.7
Belgium 21,287 19,846 93.2
Bulgaria 38,118 33,070 86.8
Croatia 37,068 36,595 98.7
Cyprus 34,955 33,772 96.6
Czechia 41,415 40,620 98.1
Denmark 11,312 10,761 95.1
Estonia 12,370 11,334 91.6
Finland 6,647 6,399 96.3
France 64,527 62,900 97.5
Germany 45,321 40,444 89.2
Greece 49,504 47,182 95.3
Hungary 18,111 17,965 99.2
Ireland 48,409 48,409 100.0
Italy 93,858 82,885 88.3
Latvia 5,487 5,467 99.6
Lithuania 14,396 13,287 92.3
Luxembourg 7,894 7,636 96.7
Malta 10,842 10,556 97.4
Netherlands 23,935 22,642 94.6
Poland 21,434 17,490 81.6
Portugal 29,624 29,416 99.3
Romania 33,264 32,234 96.9
Slovakia 34,874 28,973 83.1
Slovenia 10,211 9,818 96.2
Spain 112,820 88,324 78.3
Sweden 6,417 6,223 97.0
European Union 880,245 808,429 93.9

4 Classification

The extraction and translation phase provided us with a diverse database of news articles from a wide range of sources. However, as previously mentioned, there is a significant risk of including articles that narrate events unrelated to our definitions of Rule of Law, Justice, and Governance. To meet the project’s objectives, it is crucial that the system can not only differentiate between articles that are relevant to our macro-concepts and those that are not, but also accurately classify the relevant articles according to the specific pillars of the rule of law that they are related to. In order to achieve this, we made use of the text classification capabilities of Large Language Models such as GPT and Gemini.4

4 GPT refers to a family of models developed by OpenAI, while Gemini refers to a family of models developed by Google. During the pilot phase of this study, we tested the GPT-4-Turbo and the Gemini-1.5 models, respectively.

We divided the classification phase into two stages. In the first stage, the system aims to categorize news articles based on whether they are related to our concepts of Rule of Law, Justice, and Governance, or not. Additionally, the system will identify the location where the events described in the article are taking place. During this stage, the total number of news articles that were successfully translated are passed to the model.

In the second stage, the system will further classify the relevant articles according to which specific pillars of the rule of law the events are related to. This stage focuses exclusively on articles that were previously classified as related to our macro-concepts and that describe events occurring within one of the 27 member states of the European Union.

4.1 Prompt definition

In both stages, we defined two prompt templates to pass to the LLM: a system context and the instructions. The system context is a type of prompt used to set the context or guide the behavior of the model during a conversation. In our specific case, the system context was used to establish the role of the model as an assistant, provide general instructions and some background information of the purpose of the tasks. The instruction template contained the conceptual framework, the full text of the article, some key point to take into account, as well as specific instructions on how to structure the answers (JSON format). The full text of the prompts used can be found in the Prompt templates: Text Classification notebook in the supplementary materials to this manuscript.

These prompts were the results of a dynamic and iterative process of prompt engineering. More specifically, we randomly selected a batch 100 news articles and then we proceeded to classify them using the GPT and Gemini models along with a project-specific LangChain workflow.5 Once that the models finished classifying the testing batch, two experts were consulted to evaluate and provide feedback on the accuracy of the classification. The experts were contextualized on the purpose of the exercise in order to get a correct assessment on how well the models were classifying the news articles and how can it be improved through clear instructions. Once that their feedback was received, we proceeded to adjust the prompts and repeat the exercise once again. This exercise was repeated four times until reaching a point in which further instructions were reducing the accuracy of the classification due to an increase in the complexity of the prompt.

5 LangChain is an open-source framework that facilitates the integration of generative AI models into your own framework. You can see it as a toolkit that covers and provide easy and fast solutions to many of the usual tasks that programmers face when dealing with language models.

6 The Gemini model was introduced to the market in December 2023. Sending calls to the model through the Google AI API was free as long as the overall use remained under 60 requests per minute (RPM). This policy was in place until May 2024.

In all rounds of testing, the GPT-4-Turbo model exhibited higher accuracy and precision than the Gemini-1.0-Pro model. However, both models exhibited a good performance when compared to human classification (see Section 4.4). Due to costs restraints for this project, the classification stage for the full sample of news article was performed using only the Gemini-1.0-Pro model.6

4.2 First stage: Broad classification

For the first stage, we used an 85-word system context that remained fixed in every call made to the LLM, along with a 583-word instruction prompt template.7 During this stage, the main objective is to reduce the universe of news articles to be classified. The process was outlined this way to reduce the monetary and computing costs of passing more detailed instructions over the whole universe of news articles.8 Therefore, the instructions prompt used in this stage contains very general definitions of our macro-concepts and the main outcome is a binary answer classifying the articles as related or not to our conceptual framework.

7 The final instruction prompt would usually be longer due to the inclusion of the title and full content of the news article.

8 Monetary and computational costs of using Large Language Models are based on token counts. By breaking the process in two stages, we were able to reduce the total token count (instructions-only) to 99 million tokens in comparison to an hypothetical scenario of 2,459 million tokens (instructions-only) if we had passed the detailed instructions to all 808,429 news articles from the beginning.

Out of the 808,429 articles that were passed to the Gemini-1.0-Pro model, an average of 27.8% were categorized as related to our definitions of rule of law, justice, and governance. However, this proportion varied significantly, reaching as high as 43.6% in Romania and dropping to just 8% in Ireland (column [2], Table 3). However, articles from a newspaper in France, for example, might narrate events occurring in other parts of the world. When focusing only on those articles narrating events that happened within the same country in which the newspaper is based, an average of 18.7% were classified by the model as related to our macro-concepts. Similarly, this proportion can reach as high as 33.7% in Poland and as low as 5.5% in Ireland (column [3], Table 3).

During this stage, a small percentage of news articles could not be classified because the prompt sent to the model was blocked by the API. Like other large language models, Gemini employs various techniques to filter and block harmful or inappropriate prompts. These measures are designed to ensure that the model generates safe, helpful, and unbiased content. Even after reducing the security settings to the minimum, some prompts were still blocked due to their content. On average, less than 1% of the total news articles were unable to be classified for this reason (column [5], Table 3).

A total of 148,124 news articles were passed to the Gemini-1.0-Pro model for further classification.

Table 3: Broad classification results
Country Related (%) Related - Within (%) Related - Within (n) Unclassified (%)
Austria 24.9 12.7 5,590 0.5
Belgium 24.2 13.8 2,737 1.0
Bulgaria 35.1 24.4 8,071 0.3
Croatia 28.8 17.6 6,431 0.8
Cyprus 29.1 19.9 6,716 0.3
Czechia 21.8 17.5 7,114 1.3
Denmark 30.6 17.6 1,897 0.9
Estonia 22.5 14.1 1,599 0.3
Finland 32.8 23.5 1,501 0.8
France 26.5 15.8 9,955 0.7
Germany 29.4 23.0 9,292 0.8
Greece 26.6 17.1 8,027 1.2
Hungary 25.8 15.4 2,768 0.8
Ireland 8.0 5.5 2,676 0.2
Italy 29.1 24.1 18,800 0.8
Latvia 15.1 11.6 636 0.6
Lithuania 31.5 24.6 3,272 0.7
Luxembourg 26.7 14.7 1,119 0.5
Malta 37.6 30.4 3,205 0.4
Netherlands 24.8 14.2 3,223 0.6
Poland 40.7 33.7 5,902 0.8
Portugal 23.2 14.8 4,217 0.3
Romania 43.6 27.2 8,765 1.0
Slovakia 26.8 17.9 5,172 0.4
Slovenia 30.7 18.2 1,786 0.7
Spain 27.7 18.9 16,685 1.0
Sweden 26.7 15.6 968 2.5
European Union 27.8 18.7 148,124 0.8

4.3 Second stage: Pillar classification

For the second stage, we used a fixed 114-word system context in every call to the LLM, along with a 2,928-word instruction prompt template that provided detailed definitions of each pillar. The primary objective during this stage was for the system to classify articles based on which specific pillar of the Rule of Law the events described in the text were related to. However, due to the close relationship and theoretical overlap between the pillars in our conceptual framework, an article could be associated with multiple pillars. As a result, the main output of this stage was a vector of eight binary values, where each value would be set to one if the events in the article were related to a specific pillar, and zero otherwise.

Nevertheless, the overlapping nature of the pillars meant that some events could be strongly or mildly correlated with several pillars. If left unchecked, this overlap could lead to an “overlabeling” scenario where articles would be classified as relevant to nearly all dimensions of the rule of law. To mitigate this, the instructions passed to the LLM were designed so the model would focus in providing a ranking score on how strongly a news article is correlated with each pillar on a scale from 0 to 10, with 0 indicating no relevance and 10 indicating a strong correlation. This vector is then transformed into a series of binary values using the following rule:

Let \(\mathbf{s} = (s_1, s_2, \dots, s_8)\) represent the score vector for a news article across the eight pillars, where \(s_i \in [0, 10]\) represents the score for pillar (i).

The transformation into binary values is defined by a threshold (\(T\)), such that the binary classification for each pillar is given by:

\[ b_i = \begin{cases} 1 & \text{if } s_i \geq T \\ 0 & \text{if } s_i < T \end{cases} \]

where (\(b_i\)) is the binary value indicating whether the article is related to pillar (i). If (\(s_i \geq T\)), the article is classified as related to pillar (i) (i.e., (\(b_i = 1\))); otherwise, it is unrelated (i.e., (\(b_i = 0\))).

Table 4 displays the results of the second stage. More specifically, the percentage of news articles associated to each of the eight predefined dimensions of the rule of law. On average, the system found a strong presence of news articles related to Constraints on Government Powers (Pillar 1, 20.9%), Criminal Justice (Pillar 8, 17.1%), and Fundamental Rights (Pillar 4, 16.7%). On the other hand, the system found very few news articles related to Open Government (Pillar 3, 2.9%) and Regulatory Enforcement (Pillar 6, 3.9%). However, these percentages present substantial variations when considering the associations at the country level.

Table 4: Pillar classification results (%)
Country Pillar 1 Pillar 2 Pillar 3 Pillar 4 Pillar 5 Pillar 6 Pillar 7 Pillar 8
Austria 18.9 9.8 2.2 15.3 5.8 2.5 6.1 15.8
Belgium 13.3 9.0 1.4 12.8 5.8 1.9 6.5 17.1
Bulgaria 27.4 16.7 3.6 17.8 8.1 5.2 9.2 21.3
Croatia 20.6 13.0 2.3 15.6 8.1 3.0 6.5 19.8
Cyprus 22.6 13.7 3.9 16.2 7.5 6.1 7.9 15.6
Czechia 14.7 9.1 1.7 10.8 6.6 2.7 4.6 14.6
Denmark 24.3 12.8 3.0 20.2 9.2 3.0 8.2 20.5
Estonia 16.9 8.9 2.0 11.7 4.3 3.4 5.9 13.2
Finland 24.2 12.9 1.9 20.3 10.2 3.6 8.2 22.5
France 20.5 9.7 2.3 18.5 7.1 3.1 5.6 15.3
Germany 20.9 9.5 2.1 17.7 9.2 2.5 7.0 19.4
Greece 20.2 12.1 2.6 16.7 8.6 3.9 6.3 17.4
Hungary 21.8 13.2 2.6 16.4 5.9 3.6 4.0 14.0
Ireland 18.6 9.4 2.7 16.5 7.0 3.7 8.0 16.2
Italy 17.9 12.3 2.5 17.2 8.2 4.1 7.4 18.4
Latvia 10.4 6.1 2.0 7.5 3.1 3.3 2.1 6.2
Lithuania 22.7 14.1 2.4 15.3 6.6 4.4 7.7 20.7
Luxembourg 16.4 8.3 3.8 15.8 6.6 3.7 5.8 13.1
Malta 30.1 19.3 7.4 24.0 6.4 9.2 13.0 21.4
Netherlands 16.6 9.6 2.6 15.5 5.6 3.0 6.0 14.8
Poland 31.6 18.1 3.8 23.1 7.6 5.6 11.4 23.5
Portugal 18.6 9.5 3.0 13.6 3.1 3.6 5.2 10.6
Romania 28.6 23.3 4.1 22.5 9.5 7.0 8.1 25.0
Slovakia 23.1 13.0 3.6 16.0 4.6 3.0 4.9 15.5
Slovenia 24.4 11.9 3.1 18.4 7.4 4.3 7.4 16.4
Spain 20.6 11.0 2.6 17.3 6.3 3.3 6.1 15.8
Sweden 19.8 10.2 1.9 18.1 9.7 2.0 6.3 19.1
European Union 20.9 12.1 2.9 16.7 7.0 3.9 6.9 17.1

Percentages across pillars in Table 4 do not sum up to 100 due to three reasons. First, one single article could be associated to multiple pillars. Second, when given more detailed information on the rule of law and its different dimensions, some news articles might have received new scores that would reflect their disassociation from our theoretical framework. Third, some news articles were only mildly related to all of the pillars considered in our conceptual framework.

4.4 How accurate is the text classification?

To evaluate the accuracy of our tracker, we conducted an experiment comparing the performance of two large language models (LLMs), GPT-4-Turbo and Gemini-1.0-Pro, with human annotators. The experiment was designed under the assumption that human labeling would serve as a counterfactual benchmark for AI-based classification.

First, the political scientist who developed the conceptual framework manually classified a sample of 200 news articles. These expert annotations served as the “ground truth” for evaluating both AI and human performance. To streamline the annotation process, we developed a web application with the following features:

  1. Article Display: Each annotator was presented with a randomly selected news article, including its headline, a brief summary (provided by the news API), and the full text. All content was displayed in English.
  2. Primary Question: Annotators answered the question: Is this news article related to the Rule of Law?
  3. Conditional Questions:
  • If YES, additional questions were displayed:
    • To which pillar(s) of the Rule of Law does this article relate? (Multiple selections allowed)
    • What is the impact of the events described on the Rule of Law? (Very Positive, Positive, Neutral, Negative, Very Negative)
    • In which country are the events described taking place? (List of countries provided)
    • After answering, the annotation was recorded, and the next article was shown.
  • If NO, the annotation was recorded immediately, and the next article was shown.

Using the expert’s annotations, we applied the LLM prompts defined in Section 4.1 to classify the same 200 news articles in both the first and second classification stages. The output of GPT-4-Turbo and Gemini-1.0-Pro was evaluated using a set of metrics to measure their classification accuracy against the ground truth.

Finally, we trained a team of 20 human annotators through a workshop designed to familiarize them with the project’s conceptual framework. After the training, each participant labeled a set of 200 news articles using the same web app. To ensure consistency and enable comparison, a hidden subset of 40 articles (shared with the expert-labeled set) was included for each participant. The responses to this hidden subset were used to estimate metrics and assess the accuracy of human classification relative to the expert benchmark.

A set of six metrics were estimated to assess the accuracy of the classification:

  1. Accuracy: The ratio of correctly predicted instances to the total instances.
  2. Precision: The ratio of correctly predicted positive instances to the total predicted positive
  3. Sensitivity (TPR): The ratio of correctly predicted positive instances to all actual positive instances.
  4. Fall-Out (FPR): The proportion of actual negative instances that are incorrectly classified as positive by the model.
  5. F1 Score: The harmonic mean of precision and recall, giving a balance between the two.
  6. Matthews Correlation Coefficient: A balanced measure of classification quality that considers true and false positives and negatives.
  7. Confusion Matrix: A table that shows the actual vs predicted classifications and helps visualize the performance of the classifier.

Due to the significant imabalnce of negatives in the sample, we focused our attention in the sensitivity, fall-out, and confusion matrix. The results of the classification for the first stage are shown in the Table 5.

As we can observe, the GPT model performed accurately in the small subset of news articles during the first stage of classification while the Gemini model had a low sensitivity performance due to a significant number of false negatives (31). This is a dangerous statistic given that, unlike the false positives, this is information that will be lost during the second stage of the classification. This is a cost that is assumed by this project in order to reduce the costs of the pilot.

When comparing the performance of the AI models to those of the human annotators, only 7 out of the 20 human annotators performed better than Gemini. This set of “Top Human Classifiers shown a performance almost as high as the GPT model. However, when looking at the whole human team, we can see that average Human Annotator performed very closely to the Gemini Model. While the Gemini model had a lower FPR, the average human annotator exhibited a higher TPR.

Table 5: Classification Performance Assessment (Stage 1)
Classifier TPR FPR Confussion Matrix
GPT 1.00 0.00 [[136 0] [ 0 67]]
Gemini 0.54 0.07 [[126 10] [ 31 36]]
Top Human Classifiers 0.92 0.14 [[241 43] [ 7 75]]
Human Classifiers 0.75 0.09 [[511 56] [ 42 125]]

When assessing the accuracy of the classification during the second stage, we only have a reliable sample size to evaluate the accuracy on pillars one, four, and five. The results shown in Table 6 reflect that AI models had a better performance than humans when classifying news articles related to Constraints on Government Powers, while humans had a better performance than AI models when classifying news articles related to Order and Security.

Table 6: Classification Performance Assessment (Stage 2)
Classifier Pillar TPR FPR Confussion Matrix
GPT Pillar 1 0.69 0.21 [[30 8] [ 9 20]]
Gemini Pillar 1 0.52 0.37 [[24 14] [14 15]]
Top Human Classifiers Pillar 1 0.55 0.16 [[89 27] [38 52]]
Human Classifiers Pillar 1 0.35 0.07 [[85 7] [50 25]]
GPT Pillar 4 0.60 0.17 [[35 7] [10 15]]
Gemini Pillar 4 0.24 0.26 [[31 11] [19 6]]
Top Human Classifiers Pillar 4 0.66 0.15 [[57 11] [20 37]]
Human Classifiers Pillar 4 0.40 0.16 [[62 13] [53 39]]
GPT Pillar 5 0.33 0.10 [[44 5] [12 6]]
Gemini Pillar 5 0.22 0.14 [[42 7] [14 4]]
Top Human Classifiers Pillar 5 0.67 0.18 [[69 15] [ 8 16]]
Human Classifiers Pillar 5 0.42 0.18 [[106 25] [ 19 17]]

5 Summarization and Sentiment

6 Text Insights

7 Next Steps

8 Appendix

8.1 List of data sources

Country Name City NUTS URL Language Editorial Priority HP
Austria Die Presse Vienna AT1 https://www.diepresse.com/ German center-right Yes Yes
Austria Der Standard Vienna AT1 https://www.derstandard.at/ German center-left Yes Yes
Austria Kronen Zeitung Vienna AT1 https://www.krone.at/ German right Yes No
Austria Profil Vienna AT1 https://www.profil.at/ German left Yes No
Austria Heute Vienna AT1 https://www.heute.at/ German center No No
Austria Kleine Zeitung Graz and Klagenfurt AT2 https://www.kleinezeitung.at/ German center Yes No
Austria Oberösterreichische Volksblatt Linz AT3 https://volksblatt.at/ German right Yes No
Austria Vorarlberger Nachrichten Bregenz AT3 https://www.vn.at/ German center Yes No
Austria Wiener Zeitung Vienna AT1 https://www.wienerzeitung.at/ German liberal Yes No
Austria Kurier Vienna AT1 https://kurier.at/ German liberal No No
Austria Neue Vorarlberger Tageszeitung Bregenz AT3 https://www.neue.at/ German center No No
Austria Salzburger Nachrichten Salzburg AT3 https://www.sn.at/ German center-right Yes Yes
Belgium RTBF Brussels BE1 https://www.rtbf.be/ French center Yes No
Belgium De Standaard Brussels BE1 https://www.standaard.be/ Dutch center Yes Yes
Belgium La Libre Brussels BE1 https://www.lalibre.be/ French center-right Yes No
Belgium Le Soir Brussels BE1 https://www.lesoir.be/ French left Yes Yes
Belgium L’Echo Brussels BE1 https://www.lecho.be/ French center No No
Belgium De Tijd Brussels BE1 https://www.tijd.be/ Dutch center No No
Belgium Gazet van Antwerpen Antwerp BE2 https://www.gva.be/ Dutch center-right Yes No
Belgium Het Nieuwsblad Groot-Bijgaarden BE2 https://www.nieuwsblad.be/ Dutch right Yes No
Belgium Het Laatste Nieuws Antwerp BE2 https://www.hln.be/ Dutch center-right Yes Yes
Belgium De Morgen Antwerp BE2 https://www.demorgen.be/ Dutch center-left Yes No
Belgium Knack Roeselare BE2 https://www.knack.be/ Dutch left No No
Belgium La Libre Belgique Brussels BE1 https://www.lalibre.be/ French liberal Yes No
Belgium Sudinfo Namur BE3 https://www.sudinfo.be/ French center No No
Belgium L’Avenir Bouge BE3 https://www.lavenir.net/ French center-right No No
Bulgaria Burgas News Burgas BG3 https://www.burgasnews.com/ Bulgarian center No No
Bulgaria Varna24 Varna BG3 https://www.varna24.bg/ Bulgarian center Yes No
Bulgaria 24 Chasa Sofia BG4 https://www.24chasa.bg/ Bulgarian center-right Yes Yes
Bulgaria Trud Sofia BG4 https://trud.bg/ Bulgarian center-left Yes No
Bulgaria Dnevnik Sofia BG4 https://www.dnevnik.bg/ Bulgarian center-left Yes Yes
Bulgaria Capital Sofia BG4 https://www.capital.bg/ Bulgarian left Yes Yes
Bulgaria Standart News Sofia BG4 https://www.standartnews.com/ Bulgarian NA Yes No
Bulgaria Bulgarian News Agency Sofia BG4 https://www.bta.bg/ Bulgarian center No No
Croatia Glas Slavonije Osijek  HR02 https://www.glas-slavonije.hr/ Croatian NA Yes No
Croatia Slobodna Dalmacija Split HR03 https://slobodnadalmacija.hr/ Croatian center-right Yes No
Croatia Novi list Rijeka HR03 https://www.novilist.hr/ Croatian center-right Yes Yes
Croatia 24sata Zagreb HR05 https://www.24sata.hr/ Croatian center Yes No
Croatia Jutarnji Zagreb HR05 https://www.jutarnji.hr/ Croatian left Yes Yes
Croatia Večernji Zagreb HR05 https://www.vecernji.hr/ Croatian right Yes Yes
Croatia RTL Zagreb HR05 https://www.rtl.hr/ Croatian left No No
Croatia HRT Zagreb HR05 https://www.hrt.hr/ Croatian center No No
Croatia Nacional Zagreb HR05 https://www.nacional.hr/ Croatian center No No
Cyprus Politis Nicosia CY0 https://www.politis.com.cy/ Greek center-right Yes Yes
Cyprus Phileleftheros Nicosia CY0 https://www.philenews.com/ Greek center-left Yes Yes
Cyprus Cyprus Mail Nicosia CY0 https://cyprus-mail.com/ English liberal Yes No
Cyprus Sigmalive Nicosia CY0 https://www.sigmalive.com/ Greek center Yes Yes
Czechia Hospodářské noviny Praha CZ01 https://hn.cz/ Czech NA Yes No
Czechia Blesk Praha CZ01 https://www.blesk.cz/ Czech NA Yes No
Czechia Mladá fronta Dnes Praha CZ01 https://www.mfdnes.cz/ Czech NA Yes No
Czechia Právo Praha CZ01 https://www.pravo.cz/ Czech center-left Yes Yes
Czechia Deník Praha CZ01 https://www.denik.cz/ Czech liberal Yes Yes
Czechia Lidové noviny Praha CZ01 https://www.lidovky.cz/ Czech center-right Yes Yes
Denmark Berlingske Copenhagen DK01 https://www.berlingske.dk/ Danish right Yes Yes
Denmark Politiken Copenhagen DK01 https://politiken.dk/ Danish left Yes Yes
Denmark Jyllands-Posten Aarhus DK04 https://jyllands-posten.dk/ Danish center-right Yes Yes
Denmark Fyens Stiftstidende Odense DK03 https://fyens.dk/ Danish center Yes No
Denmark Nordjyske Stiftstidende Aalborg DK05 https://nordjyske.dk/ Danish right Yes No
Denmark Information Copenhagen DK01 https://www.information.dk/ Danish center-left Yes No
Denmark Danmarks Radio Copenhagen DK01 https://www.dr.dk/ Danish center No No
Denmark Århus Stiftstidende Aarhus DK04 https://stiften.dk/ Danish NA No No
Denmark B.T. Copenhagen DK01 https://www.bt.dk/ Danish center No No
Estonia Postimees Tallinn EE0 https://www.postimees.ee/ Estonian center-right Yes Yes
Estonia Delfi Tallinn EE0 https://www.delfi.ee/ Estonian center Yes Yes
Estonia Eesti Päevaleht Tallinn EE0 https://epl.delfi.ee/ Estonian center-left Yes Yes
Finland Aamulehti Tampere FI19 https://www.aamulehti.fi/ Finnish center Yes Yes
Finland Keskisuomalainen Jyväskylä FI19 https://www.ksml.fi/ Finnish center Yes Yes
Finland Yleisradio Helsinki FI1B https://yle.fi/ Finnish center No No
Finland Helsingin Sanomat Helsinki FI1B https://www.hs.fi/ Finnish center Yes Yes
Finland Ilta-Sanomat Helsinki FI1B https://www.is.fi/ Finnish center-right Yes No
Finland Helsinki Times Helsinki FI1B https://www.helsinkitimes.fi/ English NA Yes No
Finland Iltalehti Helsinki FI1B https://www.iltalehti.fi/ Finnish center Yes No
Finland Turun Sanomat Turku FI1C https://www.ts.fi/ Finnish center Yes No
Finland Kaleva Oulu FI1D https://www.kaleva.fi/ Finnish center-left No No
Finland Ålandstidningen Mariehamn FI20 https://www.alandstidningen.ax/ Swedish NA No No
Finland Hufvudstadsbladet Helsinki FI1B https://www.hbl.fi/ Swedish left No No
Finland Nya Åland Mariehamn FI20 https://www.nyan.ax/ Swedish NA No No
France Sud Ouest Bordeaux FR1 https://www.sudouest.fr/ French politically independent Yes No
France Le Dauphiné libéré Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes FRK https://www.ledauphine.com/ French NA No No
France L’Est Républicain Grand Est FRF https://www.estrepublicain.fr/ French conservative No No
France Les Dernières Nouvelles d’Alsace Alsalce FRC https://www.dna.fr/ French NA No No
France Le Monde Paris FR1 https://www.lemonde.fr/ French politically independent Yes Yes
France Le Berry Républicain Centre-Val de Loire FRB https://www.leberry.fr/ French NA No No
France Ouest-France Normandie FRD https://www.ouest-france.fr/ French moderate conservatism No No
France La Voix du Nord Nord-Pas de Calais FRE https://www.lavoixdunord.fr/ French independent Yes No
France Le Télégramme Brittany FRH https://www.letelegramme.fr/ French NA Yes No
France Charante Libre Nouvelle-Aquitaine FRI https://www.charentelibre.fr/ French NA Yes No
France L’Indépendant Occitanie FRJ https://www.lindependant.fr/ French NA Yes No
France Nice-Matin Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur FRL https://www.nicematin.com/ French NA Yes No
France Le Figaro Paris FR1 https://www.lefigaro.fr/ French center-right Yes Yes
France Liberation Paris FR1 https://www.liberation.fr/ French center-left Yes Yes
France L’Humanité Paris FR1 https://www.humanite.fr/ French left No No
Germany Südwest Presse Ulm DE1 https://www.swp.de/ German center-right No No
Germany Süddeutsche Zeitung Munich DE2 https://www.sueddeutsche.de/ German center-left Yes Yes
Germany Berliner Morgenpost Berlin DE3 https://www.morgenpost.de/ German center-right Yes No
Germany Bild Berlin DE3 https://www.bild.de/ German center-right Yes No
Germany Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) Frankfurt DE4 https://www.faz.net/ German center-right Yes Yes
Germany Weser Kurier Bremen DE5 https://www.weser-kurier.de/ German center-left Yes No
Germany Die Zeit Hamburg DE6 https://www.zeit.de/ German center-left Yes Yes
Germany Oberhessische Presse Hessen DE7 https://www.op-marburg.de/ German center-right No No
Germany Ostsee Zeitung Rostock DE8 https://www.ostsee-zeitung.de/ German NA No No
Germany Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung Hannover DE9 https://www.haz.de/ German NA Yes No
Germany Handelsblatt Düsseldorf DEA https://www.handelsblatt.com/ German NA Yes No
Germany Rheinische Post Düsseldorf DEA https://rp-online.de/ German NA No No
Germany Saarbrücker Zeitung Saarbrücken DEC https://www.saarbruecker-zeitung.de/ German NA No No
Germany Sächsische Zeitung Dresden DED https://www.saechsische.de/ German NA Yes No
Germany Volksstimme Sachsen-Anhalt DEE https://www.volksstimme.de/ German NA No No
Germany Der Spiegel Hamburg DE6 https://www.spiegel.de/ German center-left Yes Yes
Germany Schleswig-Holsteinischer Zeitungsverlag Flensburg DEF https://www.shz.de/ German NA No No
Germany Ostthüringer Zeitung Gera DEG https://www.otz.de/ German NA No No
Greece Kathimerini Athens EL3 https://www.kathimerini.gr/ Greek center-left Yes Yes
Greece Proto Thema Athens EL3 https://www.protothema.gr/ Greek center-right Yes Yes
Greece Ta Nea Athens EL3 https://www.tanea.gr/ Greek center-left Yes Yes
Greece Makedonia Thessaloniki EL5 https://www.makthes.gr/ Greek NA No No
Greece Ethnos Athens EL3 https://www.ethnos.gr/ Greek center-left Yes No
Greece To Vimas Athens EL3 https://www.tovima.gr/ Greek center-right Yes No
Greece Documento Athens EL3 https://www.documentonews.gr/ Greek center-left Yes No
Greece Peloponnisos Patras EL6 http://www.pelop.gr/ Greek center-right No No
Hungary Magyar Hirlap Közép-Magyarország HU1 https://www.magyarhirlap.hu/ Hungarian conservative Yes Yes
Hungary Magyar Nemzet Budapest HU1 https://magyarnemzet.hu/ Hungarian right Yes Yes
Hungary Vas Népe Dunántúl HU2 https://www.vaol.hu/ Hungarian NA Yes No
Hungary Népszava Budapest HU1 https://nepszava.hu/ Hungarian left Yes Yes
Hungary Index Budapest HU1 https://index.hu/ Hungarian left No No
Hungary HVG Budapest HU1 https://hvg.hu/ Hungarian center-right No No
Hungary The Budapest Times Közép-Magyarország HU1 https://www.budapesttimes.hu/ English NA No No
Ireland Connacht Tribune Count Galway IE04 https://connachttribune.ie/ English NA No No
Ireland Galway Advertiser Galway IE04 https://www.advertiser.ie/ English NA Yes No
Ireland Irish Examiner Cork IE05 https://www.irishexaminer.com/ English centrist, center-right Yes Yes
Ireland Cork Independent Blackpool IE05 https://www.corkindependent.com/ English NA Yes No
Ireland The Irish Times Dublin IE06 https://www.irishtimes.com/ English center-left Yes Yes
Ireland The Journal Dublin IE06 https://www.thejournal.ie/ English center-right No No
Ireland Irish Independent Dublin IE06 https://www.independent.ie/ English center-right Yes Yes
Ireland The Irish Sun Dublin IE06 https://www.thesun.ie/ English conservative No No
Italy Corriere della Sera Milan ITC https://www.corriere.it/ Italian center-left Yes Yes
Italy Il Sole 24 Ore Milan ITC www.ilsole24ore.com Italian independent Yes No
Italy La Stampa Turin ITC https://www.lastampa.it Italian center-left Yes Yes
Italy Il Mattino Naples ITF https://www.ilmattino.it Italian NA Yes No
Italy Giornale di Sicilia Palermo ITG https://gds.it/ Italian centrist Yes No
Italy Il Resto del Carlino Bologna ITH https://www.ilrestodelcarlino.it Italian NA No No
Italy La Verità Milan ITC https://www.laverita.info/ Italian right Yes No
Italy Il Messaggero Rome ITI https://www.ilmessaggero.it/ Italian NA No No
Italy Il Foglio Rome ITI https://www.ilfoglio.it/ Italian center-right Yes No
Italy La Repubblica Rome ITI https://www.repubblica.it/ Italian center-left Yes Yes
Latvia BNN - Baltic News Network Riga LV006 https://bnn-news.com/ English NA Yes No
Latvia Ir Riga LV006 https://ir.lv/ Latvian center-left Yes Yes
Latvia Latvijas Avīze Riga LV007 https://www.la.lv/ Latvian conservative Yes Yes
Latvia Diena Riga LV006 https://www.db.lv/ Latvian NA Yes Yes
Latvia Neatkarīgā Rīta Avīze Riga LV006 https://nra.lv/ Latvian center-left No No
Latvia Liesma Vidzeme LV008 https://www.eliesma.lv/ Latvian NA No No
Lithuania The Baltic Review Vilnius LT01 https://baltic-review.com/ English Center Yes Yes
Lithuania Vakarų ekspresas Klaipėda LT02 https://ve.lt/ Lithuanian NA Yes Yes
Lithuania Lietuvos rytas Vilnius LT01 https://www.lrytas.lt/ Lithuanian NA Yes Yes
Luxembourg Luxembourg Wort Luxembourg City LU00 https://www.wort.lu/ German right Yes Yes
Luxembourg Le Quotidien Esch-sur-Alzette LU00 https://lequotidien.lu/ French left Yes Yes
Luxembourg Tageblatt Esch-sur-Alzette LU00 https://www.tageblatt.lu/ German center-left Yes Yes
Malta Times of Malta Mriehel MT001 https://timesofmalta.com/ English liberal-conservatism Yes Yes
Malta The Malta Independent Valletta MT001 https://www.independent.com.mt/ English NA Yes Yes
Malta L-Orizzont Valletta MT001 https://talk.mt/ Maltese labor party Yes Yes
Malta Malta Today San Gwann MT001 https://www.maltatoday.com.mt/ English liberal, pro-europe No No
Netherlands Algemeen Dagblad Rotterdam NL3 https://www.ad.nl/ Dutch center-right Yes Yes
Netherlands De Telegraaf Amsterdam NL3 https://www.telegraaf.nl/ Dutch right Yes Yes
Netherlands NRC Handelsblad Amsterdam NL3 https://www.nrc.nl/ Dutch center Yes Yes
Netherlands De Volkskrant Amsterdam NL3 https://www.volkskrant.nl/ Dutch left Yes Yes
Netherlands Dagblad van het Noorden Groningen NL1 https://dvhn.nl/ Dutch NA Yes No
Netherlands Trouw Amsterdam NL3 https://www.trouw.nl/ Dutch right Yes No
Netherlands Eindhovens Dagblad Eindhoven NL4 https://www.ed.nl/ Dutch NA Yes No
Netherlands De Limburger Maastricht NL4 https://www.limburger.nl/ Dutch NA No No
Netherlands De Gelderlander Nijmegen NL2 https://www.gelderlander.nl/ Dutch NA No No
Poland Gazeta Wyborcza Warsaw PL9 https://wyborcza.pl/ Polish left Yes Yes
Poland Fakt Warsaw PL9 https://www.fakt.pl/ Polish right Yes Yes
Poland Rzeczpospolita Warsaw PL9 https://www.rp.pl/ Polish center-right Yes Yes
Poland Dziennik Gazeta Prawna Warsaw PL9 https://www.dziennik.pl/ Polish center-right Yes No
Poland Polityka Warsaw PL9 https://www.polityka.pl/ Polish left Yes No
Portugal Correio da Manhã Lisbon PT1 https://www.cmjornal.pt/ Portuguese left Yes No
Portugal Público Lisbon PT1 https://www.publico.pt/ Portuguese left Yes Yes
Portugal Expresso Lisbon PT1 https://expresso.pt/ Portuguese center Yes Yes
Portugal Diário de Notícias Lisbon PT1 https://www.dn.pt/ Portuguese center-right Yes No
Portugal Jornal de Notícias Porto PT1 https://www.jn.pt/ Portuguese center-left Yes Yes
Portugal Visão Lisbon PT1 https://visao.pt/ Portuguese center-left Yes No
Portugal Diário de Coimbra Coimbra PT1 https://www.diariocoimbra.pt/ Portuguese NA No No
Romania Adevărul Bucharest RO3 https://adevarul.ro/ Romanian right Yes Yes
Romania Libertatea Bucharest RO3 https://www.libertatea.ro/ Romanian right Yes Yes
Romania Evenimentul Zilei Bucharest RO3 https://evz.ro/ Romanian right Yes Yes
Romania România Liberă Bucharest RO3 https://romanialibera.ro/ Romanian right Yes No
Romania Jurnalul Național Bucharest RO3 https://jurnalul.ro/ Romanian right No No
Slovakia Sme Bratislava SK01 https://www.sme.sk/ Slovak center-left Yes Yes
Slovakia Pravda Bratislava SK01 https://www.pravda.sk/ Slovak center Yes Yes
Slovakia Dennik N Bratislava SK01 https://dennikn.sk/ Slovak center Yes Yes
Slovakia Hospodárske noviny Bratislava SK01 https://hnonline.sk/ Slovak left Yes No
Slovenia Dnevnik Ljubljana SI04 https://www.dnevnik.si/ Slovene center-left Yes Yes
Slovenia Delo Ljubljana SI04 https://www.delo.si/ Slovene center-left Yes Yes
Slovenia Večer Maribor SI03 https://vecer.com/ Slovene center Yes Yes
Slovenia Primorske novice Koper SI04 https://primorske.svet24.si/ Slovene NA Yes No
Slovenia Mladina Ljubljana SI04 https://www.mladina.si/ Slovene left No No
Spain La Voz de Galicia Arteixo ES1 http://www.lavozdegalicia.com/ Spanish conservative right No No
Spain El Correo Bilbao ES2 http://www.elcorreo.com/ Spanish liberal-conservatism Yes No
Spain El País Madrid ES3 https://elpais.com/ Spanish center-left Yes Yes
Spain El Norte de Castilla Valladolid ES4 https://www.elnortedecastilla.es/ Spanish NA No No
Spain La Vanguardia Barcelona ES5 https://www.lavanguardia.com/ Spanish liberalism Yes Yes
Spain Sur Málaga ES6 https://www.diariosur.es/ Spanish center-left Yes No
Spain El Mundo Madrid ES3 https://www.elmundo.es/ Spanish conservative Yes Yes
Spain ABC Madrid ES3 https://www.abc.es/ Spanish conservative Yes Yes
Spain El Diario Vasco San Sebastián ES2 https://www.diariovasco.com/ Spanish independent Yes No
Spain La Provincia Las Palmas de Gran Canaria ES7 https://www.laprovincia.es/ Spanish NA No No
Sweden Aftonbladet Stockholm SE1 https://www.aftonbladet.se/ Swedish center-left Yes No
Sweden Dagens Nyheter Stockholm SE1 https://www.dn.se/ Swedish left Yes Yes
Sweden Expressen Stockholm SE1 https://www.expressen.se/ Swedish left No No
Sweden Svenska Dagblat Stockholm SE1 https://www.svd.se/ Swedish right Yes Yes
Sweden Goteborgs Posten Gothenburg SE2 https://www.gp.se/ Swedish left Yes Yes
Sweden Sydsvenskan Malmö SE2 https://www.sydsvenskan.se/ Swedish left Yes No
Sweden Dagens ETC Stockholm SE1 https://www.etc.se/ Swedish left No No

8.2 List of keywords used for extraction

Group English German French Bulgarian Croatian Greek Czech Danish Estonian Finnish Swedish Hungarian Italian Latvian Lithuanian Maltese Dutch Polish Portuguese Romanian Slovak Slovene Spanish
Batch 1 government Regierung gouvernement правителство vlada κυβέρνηση vláda regering valitsus hallitus regering kormány governo valdība vyriausybė gvern overheid/regering rząd governo guvern vláda vlada gobierno
Batch 1 president Präsident/Präsidentin président/présidente президент predsjednik πρόεδρος prezident præsident president presidentti president államelnök/elnök presidente prezidents prezidentas president president prezydent presidente presedinte prezident predsednik presidente
Batch 1 prime minister Premierminister/Premierministerin premier ministre министър-председател premijer πρωθυπουργός premiér statsminister peaminister pääministeri statsminister miniszterelnök presidente del consiglio/capo del governo/primo ministro premjerministrs ministras pirmininkas prim ministru minister-president/premier premier primeiro-ministro prim-ministru premiér predsednik vlade primer ministro/primer ministra
Batch 1 minister Minister/Ministerin ministre министър ministar υπουργός ministr minister minister ministeri minister miniszter ministro/ministra ministrs ministras ministru minister minister ministro/ministra ministru minister minister/ministra ministro/ministra
Batch 1 secretary Geschäftsführer/Geschäftsführerin secrétaire секретар tajnik γραμματέας tajemník sekretær sekretär sihteeri sekreterare államtitkár segretario/segretaria sekretārs sekretorius segretarju secretaris sekretarz secretário/secretária secretar sekretárka tajnica secretario/secretaria
Batch 1 army Armee armée армия vojska στρατός vojsko hær armee armeija armé honvédség /hadsereg esercito armija kariuomenė armata leger wojsko/armia exército armată armády vojska ejército
Batch 1 opposition Opposition opposition опозиция opozicija αντιπολίτευση opozice opposition opositsioon oppositio opposition ellenzék opposizione opozīcija opozicija oppożizzjoni oppositie opozycja oposição opoziţie opozície opozicija oposición
Batch 1 congress Kongress congrès конгрес kongres συνέδριο kongres kongres kongress kongressi kongress Országgyűlés congresso kongress kongresas kungress congres kongres congresso congres kongrese kongres congreso
Batch 1 senate Senat sénat сенат senat γερουσία senát senat riigikogu senaatti senat szenátus senato Senāts Senatas senat senaat senat senado senat senát senat senado
Batch 1 assembly Versammlung assemblée народно събрание sabor συνέλευση sněmovna folketing riigikogu eduskunta riksdag közgyűlés assemblea asambleja/montāža asamblėja assemblea assemblee zgromadzenie assembleia adunare zhromaždenie zborovanje asamblea
Batch 1 parliament Parlament parlement парламент sabor βουλή parlament folketing parlament eduskunta riksdag parlament parlamento parlaments parlamentas parlament parlement parlament parlamento parlament parlament parlament parlamento
Batch 1 legislature Legislative législature законодател zakonodavac νομοθέτης zákonodárce lovgiver seadusandja lainsäätäjä lagstiftare törvényhozás legislatura likumdevēja iestāde/likumdevējs įstatymų leidžiamoji valdžia/įstatymų leidėjas leġiżlatura wetgevende macht władza ustawodawcza/legislatura legislatura legislatură zákonodarný zbor zakonodajalec legislatura
Batch 1 supreme court Oberstes Gericht cour suprême/conseil constitutionnel върховен съд vrhovni sud ανώτατο δικαστήριο nejvyšší soud højesteret riigikohus korkein oikeus högsta domstolen Kúria/legfelsőbb bíróság corte suprema di cassazione/corte costituzionale Augstākā tiesa aukščiausiasis teismas qorti suprema hooggerechtshof/hoge Raad sąd najwyższy supremo tribunal curtea supremă najvyšší súd vrhovno sodišče corte suprema
Batch 2 judiciary gerichtswesen judiciaire съдебна власт sudska vlast δικαστική εξουσία soudnictví domstolsvæsen kohtuvõim oikeuslaitos rättsväsendet Igazságszolgáltatás magistratura tiesu teisminis ġudikatura rechterlijke macht sądownictwo judiciário judiciar súdnictvo sodstvo judicial
Batch 2 judicial system Justizwesen système judiciaire съдебна система pravosudni sustav δικαστικό σύστημα soudní systém retssystem kohtusüsteem oikeusjärjestelmä rättsystem igazságszolgáltatási rendszer sistema giudiziario tiesu sistēma teismų sistema sistema ġudizzjarja rechtssysteem system sądowniczy sistema judicial sistem juridic súdny systém pravosodni sistem sistema judicial
Batch 3 ombudsman Ombudsmann médiateur/médiatrice омбудсман ombudsman ομπουντσμάν ombudsman ombudsmand õiguskantsler ombudsman ombudsman alapvető jogok biztosa/ombudsman difensore civico/ombudsman tiesībsargs ombudsmenas ombudsman ombudsman rzecznik praw obywatelskich ombudsman ombudsman ombudsman varuh človekovih pravic ombudsman
Batch 3 civil society Zivilgesellschaft société civile гражданско общество civilno društvo πολιτική κοινωνία občanská společnost civilsamfundet kodanikuühiskond kansalaisyhteiskunta civilsamhället civil társadalom società civile pilsoniskā sabiedrība pilietinė visuomenė is-soċjetà ċivili burgermaatschappij społeczeństwo obywatelskie sociedade civil societate civila občianska spoločnosť civilna družba sociedad civil
Batch 1 public officer Amtsträger fonctionnaire държавен служител javni službenik δημόσιος υπάλληλος veřejný úředník offentlig ansat avalik teenistuja julkinen virkamies allmän tjänsteman köztisztviselő funzionario pubblico valsts amatpersona valstybės pareigūnas/valstybės tarnautojas uffiċjal pubbliku openbaar ambtenaar/overheidsfunctionaris funkcjonariusz publiczny funcionário público funcţionar public štátny úradník javni uradnik servidor público
Batch 1 political party politische Partei parti politique политическа партия politička stranka πολιτικό κόμμα politická strana politisk parti poliitiline partei poliittinen puolue politiskt parti politikai párt partito politico politiskā partija politinė partija partit politiku politieke partij partia polityczna partido político partid politic politická strana politična stranka partido político
Batch 1 political parties Politische Parteien partis politiques политически партии političke stranke πολιτικά κόμματα politické strany politiske partier poliitilised erakonnad poliittiset puolueet politiska partier politikai pártok partiti politici politiskās partijas politinės partijos partiti politiċi politieke partijen partie polityczne partidos políticos partide politice politické strany politične stranke partidos políticos
Batch 9 world justice project world justice project world justice project world justice project world justice project world justice project world justice project world justice project world justice project world justice project world justice project world justice project world justice project world justice project world justice project world justice project world justice project world justice project world justice project world justice project world justice project world justice project world justice project
Batch 9 v-dem v-dem v-dem v-dem v-dem v-dem v-dem v-dem v-dem v-dem v-dem v-dem v-dem v-dem v-dem v-dem v-dem v-dem v-dem v-dem v-dem v-dem v-dem
Batch 1 magistrate magistrat magistrat магистрат sudac δικαστής soudce dommer kohtunik tuomari domare bíráját magistrato/magistrata tiesnesis/maģistrāts magistratas maġistrat magistraat sędzia magistrado/magistrada magistrat magistrát magistrat magistrado
Batch 4 comptroller rechnungsprüfer contrôleur контролер kontrolor ελεγκτής řídící účetní controller kontrolör valvoja revisor Számvevő controllore della gestione kontrolieris kontrolierius kontrollur controleur kontroler/rewizor auditor/auditora controlor kontrolór kontrolor contralor/contralora
Batch 9 transparency international transparency international transparency international transparency international transparency international transparency international transparency international transparency international transparency international transparency international transparency international transparency international transparency international transparency international transparency international transparency international transparency international transparency international transparency international transparency international transparency international transparency international transparency international
Batch 9 freedom house freedom house freedom house freedom house freedom house freedom house freedom house freedom house freedom house freedom house freedom house freedom house freedom house freedom house freedom house freedom house freedom house freedom house freedom house freedom house freedom house freedom house freedom house
Batch 9 human rights watch human rights watch human rights watch human rights watch human rights watch human rights watch human rights watch human rights watch human rights watch human rights watch human rights watch human rights watch human rights watch human rights watch human rights watch human rights watch human rights watch human rights watch human rights watch human rights watch human rights watch human rights watch human rights watch
Batch 9 amnesty international amnesty international amnesty international amnesty international amnesty international amnesty international amnesty international amnesty international amnesty international amnesty international amnesty international amnesty international amnesty international amnesty international amnesty international amnesty international amnesty international amnesty international amnesty international amnesty international amnesty international amnesty international amnesty international
Batch 1 police polizei police полиция policija αστυνομία policie politi politsei poliisi polis rendőrség polizia policija policija pulizija politie policja polizia politie polícia policija policía
Batch 2 judge richter juge съдия sudac δικαστής soudce dommer kohtunik tuomari domare bíró giudice tiesnesis teisėjas imħallef rechter sędzia juiz/juiza judecător sudca sodnik juez/jueza
Batch 2 court gericht tribunal/cour съд sud δικαστήριο soud retsbygning kohus oikeustalo tingsrätt bíróság tribunale tiesa teismas qorti rechtbank sąd tribunal tribunal súd sodišče corte
Batch 2 deffense attorney Strafverteidiger avocat de la défense защитник obrambeni odvjetnik συνήγορος υπεράσπισης obhájce forsvarsadvokat kaitsja puolustusasianajaja försvarsadvokat büntetőjogi védőügyvéd/kirendelt védő avvocato difensore Publiskais aizstāvis gynėjas advokatas avukat difensur openbare verdediger/publieke verdediger obrońca publiczny advogado defensor/advogada defensora avocatul apărării obhajca zagovornik defensor público/defensora pública
Batch 4 accountability Verantwortung responsabilité отговорност odgovornost ευθύνη zodpovědnost ansvarlighed vastutus vastuullisuus ansvarighet Elszámoltathatóság rendicontabilità/accountability atbildība atskaitomybė responsabbiltà verantwoordingsplicht/verantwoordelijkheid odpowiedzialność fiscalização responsabilitate zodpovednosť odgovornost rendición de cuentas
Batch 4 oversight Beaufsichtigung surveillance надзор nadzor εποπτεία dohled tilsyn järelevalve valvonta tillsyn felügyelet supervisione/vigilanza/controllo Pārbaude priežiūra sorveljanza toezicht nadzór/kontrola supervisão supraveghere dohľad nadzor fiscalización
Batch 4 corrupt korrupt corrompu корумпиран korumpiran διεφθαρμένος korumpovaný korrupt rikutud korruptoitunut korrupt korrupt corrotto/corrotta kukuļdošana korumpuotas korrotti corrupt skorumpowany corrupto corupt skorumpovaný podkupljiv corrupto
Batch 4 corruption Korruption corruption корупция korupcija διαφθορά korupce korruption korruptsioon korruptio korruption korrupció corruzione korupcija korupcija korruzzjoni corruptie korupcja corrupção corupţie korupcia korupcija corrupción
Batch 4 bribery Bestechung pots-de-vin подкуп podmićivanje δωροδοκία úplatkářství bestikkelse altkäemaks värvääminen mutor megvesztegetés tangenti kukuļošana kyšininkavimas tixħim omkoping przekupstwo/łapówkarstwo soborno mită podplácanie podkupovanje soborno
Batch 4 graft Bestechung corruption корупция korupcija κομπίνα korupce korruption korruptsioon korruptio korruption kenőpénz mazzetta/bustarella kukuļdošana kyšininkavimas/korupcija tixħim corruptie kradzież/korupcja corrupção mită úplatkárstvo uradno darilo corrupción
Batch 4 fraud Betrug fraude измама prijevara απάτη podvod svindel pettus petos bedrägeri csalás frode/truffa krāpšana sukčiavimas frodi fraude oszustwo fraude fraudă podvodom goljufije fraude
Batch 4 patronage Klientelismus clientélisme покровителство patronaža προστασία patronát beskyttelse patronaaž suojelu protektion pártfogás mecenatismo/patronato patronāža/klientisms protekcija/klientizmas klijenteliżmu patronage/Cliëntelisme patronat/klientelizm clientelismo patronaj klientelizmus klientelizem clientelismo
Batch 4 embezzlement Veruntreuung détournement de fonds присвояване pronevjera κατάχρηση zpronevěra underslæb embezzlement omisappropriation undanhållande sikkasztás appropriazione indebita/peculato piesavināšanās turto pasisavinimas serq verduistering defraudacja/sprzeniewierzenie desvio de fundos delapidare sprenevera poneverba malversación
Batch 4 lobbying Lobbying lobbying лобиране lobiranje λόμπινγκ lobbying lobbyvirksomhed lobitöö lobbaus lobbying lobbizás lobbismo lobēšana lobizmas lobbying lobbyen lobbing/wywieranie nacisku lobbying lobby lobingu lobiranje cabildeo
Batch 1 nepotism Vetternwirtschaft népotisme непотизъм nepotizam νεποτισμός nepotismus nepotisme nepotism nepotismi nepotism nepotizmus nepotismo nepotisms nepotizmas nepotiżmu nepotisme nepotyzm nepotismo nepotism nepotizmus/rodinkárstvo nepotizem nepotismo
Batch 4 misappropiation Fehlanwendung détournement присвояване zloporaba κατάχρηση zneužití misbrug riisumine väärinkäyttö missbruk hűtlen kezelés appropriazione indebita piesavināšanās pasisavinimas misapproprjazzjoni wanpraktijken/verduistering sprzeniewierzenie apropriação indevida deturnare sprenevery protipravno prilastitev apropiación indebida
Batch 4 government contract Regierungsauftrag contrat gouvernemental държавен договор vladin ugovor δημόσιο συμβόλαιο vládní smlouva regeringskontrakt valitsuse leping hallituksen sopimus statligt kontrakt kormányzati szerződések contratto pubblico Publiskais līgums viešoji sutartis kuntratt tal-gvern overheidscontract kontrakt rządowy/zamówienie publiczne contrato público contract guvernamental vládna zákazka vladna pogodba contrato público
Batch 4 transparency Transparenz transparence прозрачност transparentnost διαφάνεια průhlednost transparens läbipaistvus läpinäkyvyys transparens átláthatóság transparenza pārredzamība/caurspīdīgums skaidrumas trasparenza transparantie przejrzystość transparência transparenţă transparentnosť preglednost transparencia
Batch 4 disclosure Offenlegung divulgation разкриване objava αποκάλυψη odhalení offentliggørelse avalikustamine julkistaminen offentliggörande nyilvánosságra hozatal divulgazione informācijas atklāšana informacijos atskleidimas żvelar openbaarmaking ujawnienie divulgação dezvăluire zverejnenie razkritje divulgación
Batch 4 audit Rechnungsprüfung audit одит revizija έλεγχος audit revision audit tilintarkastus revision könyvvizsgálat revisione/accertamento/ispezione revīzija/audits auditas verifika audit audyt auditoria audit audit revizija auditoría
Batch 5 abuse of power Machtmissbrauch abus de pouvoir злоупотреба с власт zlouporaba ovlasti κατάχρηση εξουσίας zneužití moci magtfordrejning võimu kuritarvitamine vallan väärinkäyttö maktmissbruk hatalmi visszaélés abuso di potere pilnvaru ļaunprātīga izmantošana/varas ļaunprātīga izmantošana piktnaudžiavimas valdžia abbuż ta’ poter machtsmisbruik nadużycie władzy abuso de poder abuz de putere zneužitie moci zloraba moči abuso de poder
Batch 5 demagoge Demagoge démagogue демагог demagog δημαγωγός demagog demagog demagoog demagogi demagog demagógia demagogia OR demagogo/capopopolo demagoģija demagogija demagoġija volksmenner/demagoog demagogia/demagog demagogia demagog demagóg demagog demagogo
Batch 3 human rights menschenrechte droits de l’homme човешки права ljudska prava ανθρώπινα δικαιώματα lidská práva menneskerettigheder inimõigused ihmisoikeudet mänskliga rättigheter Emberi jogok diritti umani cilvēktiesības žmogaus teisės drittijiet umani mensenrechten prawa człowieka direitos humanos drepturile omului ľudské práva človekove pravice derechos humanos
Batch 5 authoritarian autoritär autoritaire авторитарен autoritaran αυταρχικός autoritářský autoritær autoritaarne valtakunnallinen auktoritär tekintélyelvű autoritario autoritārs autoritarinis awtoritarju autoritair autorytaryzm autoritário autoritar autoritársky avtoritaren autoritario
Batch 5 authoritarianism Autoritarismus autoritarisme авторитаризъм autoritarizam αυταρχισμός autoritářství autoritarisme autoritarism autoritaarisuus auktoritarism tekintélyelvűség autoritarismo autoritārisms autoritarizmas awtoritarjaniżmu autoritarisme autorytaryzm autoritarismo autoritarism autoritárstvo avtoritarnost autoritarianismo
Batch 5 populism Populismus populisme популизъм populizam λαϊκισμός populismus populisme populism populismi populism populizmus populismo populisms populizmas populiżmu populisme populizm populismo populism populizmu populizem populismo
Batch 5 populist populistisch populiste популист populista λαϊκιστής populista populist populist populist populist populisták populista populists populizmas/populistinis populisti populistisch populista populista populist populista populistični populista
Batch 5 elections Wahlen élections избори izbori εκλογές volby valg valimised vaalit val Választás elezioni vēlēšanas rinkimai elezzjonijiet verkiezingen wybory eleições alegeri voľby volitve elecciones
Batch 5 electoral Wahlen électoral избирателен izborni εκλογικός volební elektoral valimis vaalit elektoralt választásokat elettorale vēlēšanu rinkimų elettorali electorale wyborczy eleitoral electoral volebné volilni electoral
Batch 5 vote Abstimmung vote гласуване glasati ψήφος hlasování stemme hääletama äänestää rösta szavazat voto/votazione balsojums/balsot balsas jivvota stem głosowanie/głosować voto votare hlasovať glasovanja voto
Batch 5 ballot Geheimwahl bulletin de vote бюлетина glasački listić ψηφοδέλτιο hlasovací lístek stemmeseddel valimissedel äänestyslippu röstsedel Szavazólap voto/votazione vēlēšanu biļetens balsavimo biuletenis votazzjoni stembiljet karta wyborcza votação vot hlasovací lístok glasovnica voto
Batch 5 censor Zensur censurer цензурирам cenzurirati λογοκρίνω cenzurovat censurere tsenseerima sensuroida censurera Cenzúra censura cenzūra cenzūra jiċċensuraw censor/censuur cenzor censura cenzura cenzúra cenzura censura
Batch 3 persecution Verfolgung persécution преследване progon δίωξη perzekuce forfølgelse tagakiusamine ahdistelu förföljelse üldözés persecuzione/oppressione Vajāt persekiojimas persekuzzjoni vervolging prześladowanie perseguição persecuţie prenasledovanie preganjanje persecusión
Batch 3 freedom Freiheit liberté свобода sloboda ελευθερία svoboda frihed vabadus vapaus frihet szabadság libertà brīvība laisvė libertà vrijheid wolność liberdade libertate slobody svoboda libertad
Batch 3 media Medien médias медии mediji μέσα ενημέρωσης média medier meedia media medier média media plašsaziņas līdzekļi/prese žiniasklaida midja media/pers media/prasa media mass-media médiá mediji prensa
Batch 3 human right Menschenrecht droit humain човешко право ljudsko pravo ανθρώπινο δικαίωμα lidské právo menneskeret inimõigus ihmisoikeus mänsklig rättighet emberi jog diritto umano cilvēktiesības žmogaus teisės dritt tal-bniedem mensenrecht prawo człowieka direitos humanos drept al omului ľudské právo človekove pravice derecho humano
Batch 3 protest Protest protestation протест prosvjed διαμαρτυρία protest protest protest meel protest protest Tiltakozás protesta protestēt protestas protesta protest protest protesta protest protestovať protestirati protesta
Batch 3 demonstration Demonstration manifestation демонстрация demonstracija διαδήλωση demonstrace demonstration meeleavaldus mielenosoitus demonstration Tüntetés manifestazione/dimostrazione demonstrācija demonstracija dimostrazzjoni demonstratie demonstracja manifestação manifestaţie demonštrácia demonstracija manifestación
Batch 3 liberty Freiheit liberté свобода sloboda ελευθερία svoboda libertet vabadus vapaus frihet szabadság libertà brīvība laisvė libertà vrijheid wolność liberdade libertate sloboda svobodo libertad
Batch 3 liberties Freiheiten libertés свободи slobode ελευθερίες svobody friheder vabadused vapaudet friheter szabadságok libertà brīvības laisvės libertajiet vrijheden wolności liberdades libertăţi slobody svoboščin libertades
Batch 3 liberal liberal libéral либерален liberalan φιλελεύθερος liberální liberal liberaalne liberaali liberal liberális liberale liberālā/liberāls liberalus liberali liberaal liberał liberal liberal liberálny liberalen liberal
Batch 3 equality Gleichheit égalité равенство jednakost ισότητα rovnost lighed võrdsus tasa-arvo jämlikhet egyenlőség uguaglianza vienlīdzība lygybė ugwaljanza gelijkheid równość igualdade egalitate rovnosť enakost igualdad
Batch 2 due process ordnungsgemäßes Verfahren procédure régulière правен процес pravedan postupak νόμιμη διαδικασία řádný proces retsproces õiglane menetlus oikeudenmukainen menettely rättvis process tisztességes eljárás regolare processo pienācīgs process teisingas procesas/tinkamas procesas proċess dovut eerlijk proces należyty proces processo justo proces echitabil spravodlivý proces predpisani postopek debido proceso
Batch 3 discrimination Diskriminierung discrimination дискриминация diskriminacija διακρίσεις diskriminace diskrimination diskrimineerimine syrjintä diskriminering Diszkrimináció discriminazione diskriminācija diskriminacija diskriminazzjoni discriminatie dyskryminacja discriminação discriminare diskriminácia diskriminacija discriminación
Batch 3 discriminatory diskriminierend discriminatoire дискриминационен diskriminatoran διακριτικός diskriminační diskriminerende diskrimineeriv syrjivä diskriminerande diszkriminatív discriminatorio diskriminējoša diskriminacinis diskriminatorju discriminerend dyskryminujący discriminatório discriminatorie diskriminačné diskriminatoren discriminatorio
Batch 3 bias Vorurteil biais предразсъдъци pristranost προκατάληψη předsudek forudindtagethed eelarvamus ennakkoluulo fördom elfogultság pregiudizio/preconcetto aizspriedumi šališkumas preġudizzju vooroordeel stronniczość viés părtinire zaujatosť pristranskost sesgo
Batch 3 expression Meinungsäußerung expression изразяване izražavanje έκφραση vyjádření udtryk väljendus ilmaisu uttryck kifejezés espressione izpausme išraiška espressjoni meningsuiting wyrażenie expressão expresie vyjadrenie izražanje expresión
Batch 6 labor rights Arbeitsrechte droit du travail трудови права radnička prava εργατικά δικαιώματα pracovní práva arbejdsrettigheder tööõigused työoikeudet arbetsrättigheter Munkajog diritti del lavoro/diritti dei lavoratori darba tiesības darbo teisės drittijiet tax-xogħol arbeidsrechten prawa pracownicze direitos laborais drepturile muncii pracovné práva delavske pravice derechos laborales
Batch 6 property rights Eigentumsrechte droit de propriété права на собственост prava vlasništva περιουσιακά δικαιώματα vlastnická práva ejendomsrettigheder omandiõigused omaisuusoikeudet egendomsrättigheter Tulajdonjogok diritti di proprietà īpašumtiesības nuosavybės teisės drittijiet tal-proprjetà eigendomsrechten prawa własności direitos de propiedade drepturi de proprietate vlastnícke práva premoženjske pravice derechos de propiedad
Batch 6 labor unions Gewerkschaften syndicat синдикати sindikati συνδικάτα odborové svazy fagforeninger ametiühingud ammattiyhdistykset fackföreningar szakszervezetek sindacati arodbiedrības profesinės sąjungos unjin tax-xogħol vakbonden związki zawodowe sindicatos sindicate odbory sindikati sindicatos
Batch 3 free media freie Medien médias libres свободни медии slobodni mediji ελεύθερα μέσα svobodná média frie medier vaba meedia vapaa media fria medier szabad média media liberi brīvi plašsaziņas līdzekļi/preses brīvība laisva žiniasklaida/laisva spauda midja ħielsa vrije media/vrije pers wolne media média livre mass-media liberă slobodné médiá svobodni mediji prensa libre
Batch 6 immigrants Einwanderer immigrants имигранти imigranti μετανάστες imigranti immigranter immigrandid maahanmuuttajat invandrare bevándorlók immigrati imigranti imigrantai immigranti immigranten imigranci imigrantes imigranții prisťahovalcov priseljenci inmigrantes
Batch 6 immigration Einwanderung immigration имиграция imigracija μετανάστευση imigrace immigration immigratsioon maahanmuutto invandring Bevándorlás immigrazione imigrācija imigracija immigrazzjoni immigratie imigracja imigração imigrare imigrácia priseljevanje inmigración
Batch 6 asylum Asyl asile убежище azil άσυλο azyl asyl varjupaik turvapaikka asyl menedékjog asilo patvērums prieglobstis ażil asiel azyl asilo azil azyl azil asilo
Batch 5 constitution Verfassung constitution конституция ustav σύνταγμα ústava forfatning põhiseadus perustuslaki konstitution Alkotmány costituzione konstitūcija Konstitucija kostituzzjoni grondwet konstytucja constitução constituţie ústava ustavo constitución
Batch 5 legislative gesetzgebend législatif/législative законодателен zakonodavni νομοθετικός zákonodárný lovgivende seadusandlik lainsäädäntöinen lagstiftande törvényhozó/törvényhozó hatalom legislativo likumdošana teisės aktų leidyba/teisės aktai/teisėkūros leġiżlattivi wetgevend ustawodawczy legislativo legislativ legislatívne zakonodajni legislativo
Batch 5 democracy Demokratie démocratie демокрация demokracija δημοκρατία demokracie demokrati demokraatia demokratia demokrati Demokrácia democrazia demokrātija demokratija demokrazija democratie demokracja democracia democraţie demokraciu demokracija democracia
Batch 5 democratic demokratisch démocratique демократичен demokratski δημοκρατικός demokratický demokratisk demokraatlik demokraattinen demokratisk demokratikus democratico/democratica demokrātija demokratinis demokratika democratisch demokratyczny democrática democratic demokratický demokratično democrático
Batch 5 rule of law Rechtsstaatlichkeit règle de droit власт на закона vladavina prava κράτος δικαίου právní stát retsstat õigusriik oikeusvaltio rättsstat jogállamiság Stato di diritto tiesiskums teisinė valstybė istat tad-dritt rechtsstaat rządy prawa estado de direito statul de drept pravidlo zákona pravilo zakona estado de derecho
Batch 5 governance Staatsführung gouvernance управление upravljanje διακυβέρνηση správa styre valitsemine hallinto styre kormányzás governance pārvaldība/valdīšana valdymas governanza bestuur zarządzanie governação guvernare vládnutie upravljanje governanza
Batch 2 impartial Unparteilichkeit impartial непредубеден nepristran αμερόληπτος nestranný upartisk erapooletu puolueeton opartisk pártatlan imparziale/obiettivo objektīvs nešališkas imparzjali onpartijdig bezstronność imparcial imparţial nestranný nepristranski imparcial
Batch 6 consumer protection Verbraucherschutz protection des consommateurs защита на потребителите zaštita potrošača προστασία καταναλωτών ochrana spotřebitelů forbrugerbeskyttelse tarbijakaitse kuluttajansuoja konsumentskydd fogyasztóvédelmi tutela dei consumatori/salvaguardia dei consumatori patērētāju aizsardzība vartotojų apsauga protezzjoni tal-konsumatur consumentenbescherming ochrona konsumentów proteção dos consumidores protecție a consumatorilor ochrana spotrebiteľa varstvo potrošnikov protección al consumidor
Batch 2 legal Recht légal правен pravni νομικός právní juridisk õiguslik oikeudellinen juridisk jogi legale juridiskā teisinis/legalus legali juridisch/legaal prawny jurídica legale právny pravni legal
Batch 2 legal system Rechtssystem système légal правна система pravni sustav νομικό σύστημα právní systém retssystem õigussüsteem oikeusjärjestelmä rättssystem jogrendszer sistema giuridico tiesiskā sistēma/legāla sistēma teisinė sistema sistema legali rechtssysteem system prawny sistema jurídico sistemul juridic právny systém pravni sistem sistema legal
Batch 2 investigation Untersuchung enquête разследване istraga έρευνα vyšetřování undersøgelse uurimine tutkinta undersökning Nyomozás/Vizsgálat indagine/inchiesta izmeklēšana tyrimas investigazzjoni onderzoek dochodzenie investigação ancheta vyšetrovanie preiskava investigación
Batch 2 judicial independence Unabhängigkeit der Justiz indépendance judiciaire съдебна независимост sudska neovisnost δικαστική ανεξαρτησία soudní nezávislost domstolenes uafhængighed kohtute sõltumatus tuomioistuinten riippumattomuus domstolarnas oberoende bírói függetlenség indipendenza giudiziaria tiesu neatkarība teismų nepriklausomumas indipendenza ġudizzjarja gerechtelijke onafhankelijkheid/rechterlijke onafhankelijkheid niezawisłość sądów independência judicial independența judiciară súdna nezávislosť neodvisnost sodstva independencia judicial
Batch 2 civil rights Bürgerrechte droits civils граждански права građanska prava πολιτικά δικαιώματα občanská práva borgerrettigheder kodanikuõigused kansalaisoikeudet civilrättigheter polgári jogok diritti civili pilsoņu tiesības/Civiltiesības pilietinės teisės drittijiet ċivili burgerrechten prawa obywatelskie direitos civis drepturi civile občianske práva civilne pravice derechos civiles
Batch 2 civil justice Ziviljustiz justice civile гражданска правосъдие građanska pravda πολιτική δικαιοσύνη občanská spravedlnost civilret tsiviilõigus tsiviilõigus civilrättvisa polgári igazságszolgáltatás giustizia civile civiltiesiskums civilinis teisingumas ġustizzja ċivili burgerlijk recht/burgerlijke gerechtigheid sprawiedliwość cywilna justiça civil justiție civilă občianskej spravodlivosti civilno pravosodje justicia civil
Batch 2 justice Gerechtigkeit justice правосъдие pravda δικαιοσύνη spravedlnost retfærdighed õiglus oikeus rättvisa Igazságosság giustizia tiesiskums/Taisnīgums teisingumas ġustizzja justitie sprawiedliwość justiça justiţie spravodlivosti pravičnost justicia
Batch 2 judicial Justiz judiciaire съдебен sudski δικαστικός soudní domstols kohtulik tuomioistuin- domstols- igazságügyi giudiziario Tiesu teisminis ġudizzjarju gerechtigheid sądownictwo judicial judiciar súdne sodni judicial
Batch 2 prosecution Strafverfolgung poursuite judiciaire обвинение tužiteljstvo εισαγγελία státní zastupitelství anlægemyndighed prokuratuur syyttäjäväki åklagarmyndigheten ügyészi vád azione penale/procedimento penale kriminālvajāšana/prokuratūra baudžiamojo persekiojimo/prokuratūra prosekuzzjoni vervolging/openbaar ministerie ściganie/prokuratura ação penal urmarire penala stíhanie pregon fiscalía
Batch 2 appeal Berufung appel апелация žalba έφεση odvolání anklage appellatsioon valitus överklagande fellebbezés appello/impugnare la sentenza pārsūdzība apeliacija appell beroep apelacja recurso recurs odvolanie pritožba apelación
Batch 2 dispute resolution Streitbeilegung résolution des litiges решаване на спорове riješavanje sporova διαχείριση διαφορών řešení sporů konfliktløsning vaidluste lahendamine riidanratkaisu tvistlösning Vitarendezés risoluzione delle controversie strīdu izšķiršana ginčų sprendimas soluzzjoni tat-tilwim geschillenbeslechting rozstrzyganie sporów resolução de litígios soluționare a litigiilor riešenie sporov reševanje sporov resolución de disputas
Batch 2 alternative justice alternative Justiz justice alternative алтернативно правосъдие alternativna pravda εναλλακτική δικαιοσύνη alternativní spravedlnost alternativ retfærdighed alternatiivne õiglus vaihtoehtoinen oikeusjärjestelmä alternativ rättvisa alternatív igazságszolgáltatás giustizia alternativa alternatīvā tiesvedība alternatyvus teisingumas ġustizzja alternattiva alternatieve justitie/alternatieve gerechtigheid alternatywny wymiar sprawiedliwości justiça alternativa justiție alternativă alternatívna spravodlivosť alternativno pravosodje justicia alternativa
Batch 2 public trial öffentlicher Prozess procès public обществен процес javno suđenje δημόσια δίκη veřejný soud offentlig retssag avalik kohtuprotsess julkinen oikeudenkäynti offentlig rättegång Nyilvános tárgyalás processo pubblico publiska tiesas prāva viešasis teismo procesas proċess pubbliku openbaar proces publiczny proces sądowy processo público proces public verejné pojednávanie javno sojenje juicio público
Batch 2 trial Prozess procès съдебен процес suđenje δίκη soudní řízení retssag kohtuprotsess oikeudenkäynti rättegång Tárgyalás processo tiesas process teismo procesas proċess proces proces processo proces súdny proces sojenje juicio
Batch 2 criminal justice Strafjustiz justice criminelle наказателно правосъдие kazneno pravosuđe ποινική δικαιοσύνη trestní právo strafferet kriminaalõigus rikosoikeus straffrätt Büntető igazságszolgáltatás giustizia penale krimināltiesības baudžiamoji justicija ġustizzja kriminali strafrecht wymiar sprawiedliwości w sprawach karnych justiça penal justitie penala trestné súdnictvo kazenskega pravosodja justicia criminal
Batch 2 criminal Strafrecht criminel престъпник zločinac εγκληματίας zločinec kriminel kurjategija rikollinen brottsling bűnügyi penale krimināllietu/noziedznieks baudžiamoji kriminali strafrechtelijk/crimineel karny penal penal trestný kazenski penal
Batch 7 regulatory enforcement Rechtsdurchsetzung application de la réglementation regулаторно изпълнение regulatorno provođenje ρυθμιστική επιβολή regulační vymáhání reguleringshåndhævelse regulatiivne jõustamine säädösten täytäntöönpano regleringsverkställighet végrehajtás/kikényszerítés applicazione delle normative reglamentējošo tiesību īstenošana/noteikumu piemērošanu reguliavimo vykdymo užtikrinimas/reguliavimo vykdymas infurzar regolatorju regelgevende handhaving egzekwowanie przepisów aplicação da regulamentação aplicarea reglementărilor regulačné presadzovanie regulativno uveljavljanje aplicación de la normativa
Batch 7 regulation Verordnung régulation регулация propis ρύθμιση regulace regulering regulatsioon säädös föreskrift szabályozás regolamentazione regulējums reguliavimas/reglamentas regolamentazzjoni regelgeving/regulatie regulacja/rozporządzenie regulamentação regulament regulácia uredba regulación
Batch 7 regulatory Regulierung réglementaire регулаторен regulatorni ρυθμιστικός regulační regulerende regulatiivne säätely- reglerande szabályozás normativo regulējošas reglamentavimas/reguliavimo regolatorju regelgeving/regelgevend regulacyjne regulamentar reglementare regulačné regulativni regulatorio
Batch 7 administrative proceedings Verwaltungsverfahren procédure administrative административни производи upravni postupci διοικητικές διαδικασίες správní řízení administrative procedurer haldusmenetlus hallinnolliset menettelyt administrativa förfaranden közigazgatási eljárás procedure amministrative administratīvās procedūras administracinės procedūros proċedimenti amministrattivi administratieve procedures postępowanie administracyjne processos administrativos proceduri administrative správneho konania upravni postopki procedimientos administrativos
Batch 2 presumption of innocence Unschuldsvermutung présomption d’innocence презумпция за невиновност presumpcija nevinosti παροχή αθωότητας předpoklad neviny presumption om uskyld presumpsioon süütusest syyttömyysolettama oskuldspresumtionen ártatlanság vélelme presunzione di innocenza/presunzione di non colpevolezza nevainīguma prezumpcija nekaltumo prezumpcija preżunzjoni ta’ innoċenza vermoeden van onschuld domniemanie niewinności presunção de inocência prezumtia de nevinovatie prezumpcia neviny domneva nedolžnosti presunción de inocencia
Batch 7 proceedings Verfahren procédure процедури postupci διαδικασίες řízení procedurer menetlused menettelyt förfaranden eljárás procedimenti tiesvedība/procedūras Teismo procesas proċedimenti procedure postępowanie procedimentos proceduri konania postopkih procedimientos
Batch 7 expropiate Expropriation exproprier експроприация ekspropriirati εξpropriate expropriovat expropriere eksproprieerima eksproprioida expropriera kisajátítás espropriare ekspropiāts/atsavināt ekspropriacija jesproprja onteigenen ekspropriacja/wywłaszczenie expropiar expropria vyvlastniť razlastiti expropiar
Batch 7 expropiation Expropriation expropriation експроприация eksproprijacija εξpropriation expropriace expropriation eksproprieerimine ekspropriointi expropriation expropiáció espropriazione ekspropiācija ekspropriacija esproprjazzjoni expropiatie ekspropriacja/wywłaszczenie expropiação expropriere vyvlastnenie razlastitev expropiación
Batch 7 compliance Einhaltung conformité съответствие usklađivanje συμμόρφωση dodržování efterlevelse järgimine noudattaminen efterlevnad megfelelés ottemperanza atbilstība laikymasis konformità naleving zgodność cumprimento conformitate súlad skladnost cumplimiento
Batch 7 permit Genehmigung permis разрешение dozvola άδεια povolení tilladelse luba lupa livsmedelstillstånd engedély permesso/autorizzazione atļauja leidimas permess vergunning zezwolenie autorização permite povolenie dovoljenje permiso
Batch 8 security Sicherheit sécurité сигурност sigurnost ασφάλεια bezpečnost sikkerhed turvalisus turvallisuus säkerhet biztonsági sicurezza drošība/nodrošinājums apsauga/saugumas sigurtà beveiliging bezpieczeństwo segurança securitate zabezpečenie varnost seguridad
Batch 8 crime Kriminalität crime престъпление zločin έγκλημα zločin brott kuritegu rikos brott bűnözés crimine noziegums nusikaltimai kriminalità misdaad przestępstwo crime crima zločinu zločin crimen
Batch 8 safety Sicherheit sûreté безопасност sigurnost ασφάλεια bezpečnost sikkerhed ohutus turvallisuus säkerhet biztonság sicurezza drošība saugumas/saugumo sigurtà veiligheid bezpieczeństwo segurança siguranță bezpečnosť varnost seguridad
Batch 8 homicide Tötung homicide убийство ubojstvo δολοφονία vražda drab tapmine tappo mord emberölés omicidio slepkavības žmogžudystės omiċidju moord zabójstwo homicídio omucidere vražda umor homicidio
Batch 8 violence Gewalt violence насилие nasilje βία násilí vold vägivald väkivalta våld erőszak violenza vardarbība smurtas vjolenza geweld przemoc violência violenţă násilie nasilje violencia
Batch 8 kidnapping Entführung enlèvement похищение otmica απαγωγή unesení kidnapning ärandamine kaappaus kidnappning emberrablás sequestro/rapimento nolaupīšana pagrobimas ħtif ontvoering porwanie rapto răpirea únos ugrabitev secuestro
Batch 4 extortion Erpressung extorsion изнудване ucjena εκβίαση vydírání afpresning ärpress kiristys utpressning zsarolás estorsione izspiešana turto prievartavimas estorsjoni afpersing wymuszenie extorsão extorsionare vydieranie izsiljevanje extorsión
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Austria German Appeal Court erwaltungsgerichtshof or VwGH
Austria German Constitutional Court Verfassungsgerichtshof or VfGH
Austria German Electoral Authority Bundeswahlbehörde
Austria German Environmental Protection Authority Umweltbundesamt
Austria German Human Rights Institution Volksanwaltschaft
Austria German Justice Authority österreischische Judikative
Austria German Labor Authority Arbeitsinspektion
Austria German Local Court NA
Austria German National Council Nationalrat
Austria German Federal Council Bundesrat
Austria German National Parliament/Assembly/Senate Bundesversammlung
Austria German Regional Court NA
Austria German Supreme Audit Institution Rechnungshof
Austria German Supreme Court Oberster Gerichtshof or OGH
Belgium French Appeal Court cour d’appel
Belgium Dutch Appeal Court hof van beroep
Belgium French Constitutional Court Cour constitutionelle
Belgium Dutch Constitutional Court Grondwettelijk Hof
Belgium French Electoral Authority SPF Intérieur
Belgium Dutch Electoral Authority FOD Binnenlandse Zaken
Belgium French Environmental Protection Authority SPF Santé publique, Sécurité de la Chaîne alimentaire et Environnement
Belgium Dutch Environmental Protection Authority FOD Volksgezondheid, Veiligheid van de Voedselketen en Leefmilieu
Belgium French Human Rights Institution Le Médiateur fédéral
Belgium Dutch Human Rights Institution De federale Ombudsman
Belgium French Justice Authority NA
Belgium Dutch Justice Authority NA
Belgium French Labor Authority cour du travail
Belgium Dutch Labor Authority arbeidshof
Belgium French Criminal Court cour d’assises
Belgium Dutch Criminal Court hof van assisen
Belgium French National Court NA
Belgium Dutch National Court NA
Belgium French National Parliament/Assembly/Senate Sénat
Belgium Dutch National Parliament/Assembly/Senate Senaat
Belgium French Regional Court NA
Belgium Dutch Regional Court NA
Belgium Dutch Supreme Audit Institution Rekenhof
Belgium French Supreme Audit Institution Cour des comptes
Belgium Dutch Supreme Court Hof van Cassatie
Belgium French Supreme Court Cour de cassation
Belgium Dutch Judicial hoven en rechtbanken
Belgium French Judicial cours et tribunaux
Bulgaria Bulgarian Appeals Court апелативни съдове
Bulgaria Bulgarian Constitutional Court Конституционен съд на България
Bulgaria Bulgarian Electoral Authority Централна избирателна комисия
Bulgaria Bulgarian Environmental Protection Authority Изпълнителната агенция по околна среда
Bulgaria Bulgarian Human Rights Institution Омбудсман на Република България
Bulgaria Bulgarian Justice Authority Министерство на правосъдието на България
Bulgaria Bulgarian Labor Authority Министерство на труда и социалната политика
Bulgaria Bulgarian Local Court районни съдове
Bulgaria Bulgarian National Court NA
Bulgaria Bulgarian National Parliament/Assembly/Senate Народно събрание
Bulgaria Bulgarian Regional Court окръжни съдове
Bulgaria Bulgarian Supreme Audit Institution Сметна палата
Bulgaria Bulgarian Supreme Court Върховен касационен съд
Croatia Croatian Administrative Court Visoki upravni sud
Croatia Croatian Constitutional Court Ustavni
Croatia Croatian Electoral Authority Državno izborno povjerenstvo
Croatia Croatian Environmental Protection Authority Ministarstvo zaštite okoliša i energetike
Croatia Croatian Human Rights Institution Pučka pravobraniteljica
Croatia Croatian Justice Authority Državno sudbeno vijeće
Croatia Croatian Labor Authority Ministarstvo rada, mirovinskoga sustava, obitelji i socijalne politike
Croatia Croatian Commercial Court Visoki trgovački sud
Croatia Croatian National Court NA
Croatia Croatian National Parliament/Assembly/Senate Hrvatski sabor
Croatia Croatian Regional Court NA
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Citation

BibTeX citation:
@online{a._toruño_paniagua2024,
  author = {A. Toruño Paniagua, Carlos},
  title = {Introducing the {EU} {Rule} of {Law} {Tracker}},
  date = {2024-12-05},
  langid = {en},
  abstract = {This paper introduces the EU Rule of Law Tracker, a
    project aimed at systematically tracking, classifying, and analyzing
    social and political events related to the rule of law across the 27
    member states of the European Union. While existing indices, such as
    the World Justice Project’s Rule of Law Index, rely on expert
    assessments and public perceptions to evaluate key dimensions of the
    rule of law, they may not fully capture the connection between
    perceptions and tangible events. Leveraging news archives and
    advances in machine learning and artificial intelligence,
    particularly Large Language Models (LLMs), this initiative seeks to
    complement perception-based metrics by building a comprehensive
    event database. This document details the data extraction process,
    classification methods, use of LLMs for analysis, and future
    directions for the project ...}
}
For attribution, please cite this work as:
A. Toruño Paniagua, Carlos. 2024. “Introducing the EU Rule of Law Tracker.” EU Rule of Law Tracker. December 5, 2024.