Source coverage
7 sources, read under the terms each publisher sets. What is left out is larger than what is included, so it is set out plainly here.
European Court of Human Rights judgments
13 published · 0 held
European Court of Human Rights judgments
Chamber and Grand Chamber judgments of the European Court of Human Rights, in English. Committee judgments are not reported: they apply well-established case-law to repetitive applications and are roughly two thirds of the Court's output by volume, so excluding them is a large omission and is stated here rather than left to be discovered. Decisions on admissibility, communicated cases, advisory opinions and legal summaries are not reported either. Where the Court found a violation on one limb of an article and none on another, that is reported as appearing in both findings; neither half is ever stated without the other. Case names are reproduced as the Court publishes them, including where they name an applicant and where the Court has anonymised one. This service makes no separate anonymisation decision. A judgment establishes what the Court decided on a date. It does not establish anything about the underlying events beyond the Court's own findings, it does not report what either party argued, and a Chamber judgment may still be referred to the Grand Chamber.
Case-law of the European Court of Human Rights, from HUDOC. (C) ECHR-CEDH. — ECHR copyright and disclaimer
- Publisher
- https://hudoc.echr.coe.int/
- Held records
- 0 records from this source could not be published under the rules above and are awaiting review. Held records are not shown publicly.
Eurostat police-recorded offences
412 published · 0 held
Recorded crime in the EU
Offences recorded by the police in the twenty-seven EU member states, for eight offence categories: intentional homicide, serious assault, sexual violence, robbery, burglary, unlawful acts involving controlled drugs, fraud, and acts against computer systems. Eurostat publishes twenty-five categories; the other seventeen are not reported. The figures are annual and arrive about a year and a half in arrears, so this section is quiet for most of the year and then publishes a year's worth at once. Recorded offences are not offences committed. The count moves with how willing people are to report an offence, with how the police record what is reported, and with changes in law and counting rules, as well as with offending itself. A rise or a fall does not by itself establish that any of those has changed, and no brief here says it does. Eurostat publishes what each country supplies and does not harmonise recording practice between them, so figures for different countries are not comparable with one another. No brief here places one country beside another: a comparison is only ever a country with its own preceding year, from the same series and the same category, and it is withheld entirely where Eurostat flags either year as a break in series or a change of definition. Differences between years are given as a number of offences. No percentage change is published: on a small base a proportional figure reads as a large movement when the underlying difference is a handful of records.
Source: Eurostat, dataset crim_off_cat. — Eurostat copyright and reuse notice
- Held records
- 0 records from this source could not be published under the rules above and are awaiting review. Held records are not shown publicly.
USGS earthquakes
41 published · 0 held
Earthquakes
Reviewed earthquakes of magnitude 6.0 and above, worldwide. Only magnitude, location, depth and time are reported, together with any later revision USGS makes. Automatic solutions USGS has not yet reviewed, events it classifies as something other than an earthquake, and anything below magnitude 6.0 are not reported. Effects, damage and casualties are never reported, because the USGS record used here does not establish them.
Earthquake data: U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). — USGS data licensing guidance
- Held records
- 0 records from this source could not be published under the rules above and are awaiting review. Held records are not shown publicly.
Eurostat HICP annual inflation
25 published · 0 held
EU economic statistics
All-items HICP annual inflation on the ECOICOP ver.2 classification, for nine EU reporting areas. Every figure is the one Eurostat published. Two geography labels are shortened so that a headline is readable — Eurostat's own label is shown on the brief itself in every case, and no code or figure is altered. Month-on-month differences are given in percentage points, never in percent, because the figures are already rates. A comparison is omitted entirely whenever Eurostat flags either month as a break in series or a change of definition. Provisional and estimated flags are carried into the wording. No explanation of why a figure moved is offered, and none should be inferred from the ordering of these pages.
Source: Eurostat, dataset prc_hicp_minr. — Eurostat copyright and reuse notice
- Held records
- 0 records from this source could not be published under the rules above and are awaiting review. Held records are not shown publicly.
Eurostat unemployment rate
16 published · 0 held
EU economic statistics
Harmonised, seasonally adjusted unemployment for the total population aged 15 to 74, as a percentage of the labour force. A filter that does not match the approved definition causes the record to be held rather than quietly substituted. Two geography labels are shortened so that a headline is readable — Eurostat's own label is shown on the brief itself in every case. Month-on-month differences are given in percentage points. This measures unemployment as the Labour Force Survey defines it, which is not the same as the number of people registered as unemployed.
Source: Eurostat, dataset une_rt_m. — Eurostat copyright and reuse notice
- Held records
- 0 records from this source could not be published under the rules above and are awaiting review. Held records are not shown publicly.
GDACS disaster alerts
4 published · 0 held
Disasters and hazards
Orange and red alerts from the Global Disaster Alert and Coordination System: floods, tropical cyclones, droughts, wildfires and volcanic activity. Green alerts are not reported — they are the great majority of what GDACS emits, eighty-five wildfire alerts in a single week in the week this source was built, and green means little or no humanitarian impact is expected. Earthquakes are not reported from GDACS at all: GDACS takes them from USGS, which this service already reads directly under its own magnitude rule, and publishing both would put one earthquake on the site twice from two records that can diverge after revision. An alert level is not a measurement of the hazard and not a count of anyone harmed. It is GDACS's automatic estimate of the humanitarian impact a hazard of that size is likely to have, calculated from the hazard's extent and the population and vulnerability of the area, and published within minutes of a detection. No brief here reports deaths, injuries, displacement or damage, because the record used does not establish them. A severity figure is published only where GDACS supplies a unit whose meaning has been checked. Floods and volcanic alerts arrive with a severity of zero and no unit at all, so no severity is shown for them and the brief says why. GDACS's own sentence describing a severity is never reproduced: for tropical cyclones it pairs a storm classification with a wind speed that contradicts it. GDACS states that its information is indicative, that it should not be used for decision-making without other sources, and that it does not replace any warning issued by a national or local authority. That statement appears on every brief.
Global Disaster Alert and Coordination System (GDACS), a joint initiative of the European Commission and the United Nations. (C) European Union. — Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (European Commission reuse policy)
- Publisher
- https://www.gdacs.org/
- Held records
- 0 records from this source could not be published under the rules above and are awaiting review. Held records are not shown publicly.
European Parliament plenary votes
0 published · 0 held
European Parliament votes
Final plenary votes on a text as a whole, where Parliament's own record identifies the document explicitly and reports both an outcome and aggregate counts. Amendment votes, split and separate votes, procedural motions, votes taken by show of hands without recorded counts, and sittings where no single whole-text vote can be identified with certainty are all excluded, and the excluded cases are the majority. How individual members voted is discarded at ingestion and never stored, so this service cannot answer questions about it. A document's title is reproduced as Parliament's title, to identify the record; it is not this service's description of the subject, and a vote does not establish that anything the document says is correct.
Source: European Parliament Open Data Portal. — Rules on the European Parliament's open data (CC BY 4.0)
- Held records
- 0 records from this source could not be published under the rules above and are awaiting review. Held records are not shown publicly.
Known gaps
- Earthquakes below magnitude 6, and solutions USGS has not yet reviewed, are not reported.
- Only two monthly Eurostat series are read, for a limited set of countries, and only headline figures. Revisions to older months are picked up only while those months remain in the window this service reads.
- Most European Parliament votes are not reported. A vote is published only where Parliament's own record marks it as a vote on the text as a whole and records aggregate counts. Amendment votes, split and separate votes, procedural motions and votes by show of hands without recorded counts are all excluded, as are sessions where no single whole-text vote can be identified with certainty.
- Committee judgments of the European Court of Human Rights are not reported, and they are roughly two thirds of the Court's output. Decisions on admissibility, communicated cases and advisory opinions are not reported either.
- Only orange and red GDACS alerts are reported, and no brief reports deaths, injuries, displacement or damage from a disaster: an alert level is an automatic estimate of likely impact, not a record of what happened.
- Recorded crime covers eight of Eurostat's twenty-five offence categories, arrives about eighteen months in arrears, and measures what police recorded rather than what happened. Figures for different countries are not comparable with one another and are never placed side by side here.
- Beyond these sources nothing is covered at all: no national politics, no companies, no armed conflict, no national courts, and no reporting of any kind that is not assembled from a structured public record.
Credible machine-readable data on armed conflict — UCDP and ACLED are the two that matter — now requires a registered account and an API key at both. Neither is covered here, and this service will not report on conflict from anything less rigorous.