Council of Europe The Council of the EU is together with the European Parliament the legislative body of the European Union. It adopts approximately 120 legislative texts yearly by vote of the government representatives of the 28 EU member states. The Council's voting records are open to the public. Until recently, the votes were only available in a non-open format. As voting is a core element of democratic accountability, there is considerable interest among practitioners and researchers in the voting patterns at EU level. Therefore, the General Secretariat of the Council launched a pilot project to make all Council votes on legislative acts since the Lisbon Treaty in 2009 available as Linked Open Data. Customer Success Story Technical architecture of Open Data Portal The challen

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