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Europe in the Italian Parliament: how often it was debated

Chamber of Deputies, 1948-2022 · based on 2,454,718 parliamentary interventions

The theme of europe appears in 30,374 interventions delivered in the Italian Chamber of Deputies between 1948 and 2022. The year it was discussed most is 2014, with 1,382 interventions.

This page summarises the main figures. The full search, with the complete text of every intervention and downloadable results, is available in the corpus search engine.

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Trend over time

1948: 40 interventions1949: 79 interventions1950: 32 interventions1951: 15 interventions1952: 106 interventions1953: 69 interventions1954: 150 interventions1955: 68 interventions1956: 136 interventions1957: 199 interventions1958: 97 interventions1959: 56 interventions1960: 56 interventions1961: 58 interventions1962: 68 interventions1963: 59 interventions1964: 108 interventions1965: 94 interventions1966: 89 interventions1967: 88 interventions1968: 84 interventions1969: 131 interventions1970: 88 interventions1971: 93 interventions1972: 105 interventions1973: 154 interventions1974: 91 interventions1975: 112 interventions1976: 104 interventions1977: 201 interventions1978: 146 interventions1979: 150 interventions1980: 275 interventions1981: 220 interventions1982: 196 interventions1983: 120 interventions1984: 215 interventions1985: 198 interventions1986: 159 interventions1987: 117 interventions1988: 261 interventions1989: 347 interventions1990: 398 interventions1991: 338 interventions1992: 326 interventions1993: 155 interventions1994: 283 interventions1995: 534 interventions1996: 468 interventions1997: 825 interventions1998: 875 interventions1999: 736 interventions2000: 1111 interventions2001: 604 interventions2002: 954 interventions2003: 1197 interventions2004: 909 interventions2005: 1007 interventions2006: 759 interventions2007: 917 interventions2008: 768 interventions2009: 818 interventions2010: 770 interventions2011: 1095 interventions2012: 979 interventions2013: 723 interventions2014: 1382 interventions2015: 1111 interventions2016: 895 interventions2017: 465 interventions2018: 477 interventions2019: 963 interventions2020: 757 interventions2021: 877 interventions2022: 664 interventions19501960197019801990200020102020
Interventions per year mentioning europe in the Italian Chamber of Deputies, 1948-2022.

Who spoke about it most

Member of ParliamentGroup Interventions
ROCCO PALESEForza Italia – Il Popolo della Libertà142
FABIO EVANGELISTIAlleanza dei Progressisti136
GUSTAVO SELVAPolo del Buon Governo127
SANDRO GOZIL'Ulivo120
VALDO SPINIPartito Socialista Italiano110
MARCO PEZZONIPartito Democratico della Sinistra107
PIETRO ARMANIAlleanza Nazionale102
ROCCO BUTTIGLIONEPartito Popolare Italiano98
LUCIANO DUSSINLega Nord94
MARCO BOATORadicali93

The most active parliamentary groups on this issue

Parliamentary groupInterventions
L'Ulivo3,455
Partito Democratico3,011
Forza Italia – Il Popolo della Libertà2,775
Movimento 5 Stelle1,411
Casa delle Libertà1,395
Democrazia Cristiana1,260
Lega Nord1,149
Others816
Italia dei Valori756
Polo per le Libertà653

How these figures were obtained

The figures come from a full-text search over the entire corpus of verbatim reports of the Italian Chamber of Deputies from 1948 to 2022, queried with "unione europea" OR "comunità europea" OR "integrazione europea" OR eurozona. Each intervention is counted once even if the theme occurs several times within it. The source of the texts is the ItaParlCorpus dataset by Joshua Cova (Harvard Dataverse), which collects 2,454,718 interventions and more than 470 million words. Texts from the earliest legislatures come from OCR scans and may contain recognition errors.

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