commissions: Data on commissions
In jfjelstul/ecio: The European Commission Internal Organization (ECIO) Database

This dataset includes data on Commissions of the European Union (1958-2021). There is one observation per Commission. The data indicates the national party and European political group of the President of the Commission and the start and end dates of each Commission. The Mansholt Commission is treated as its own Commission. The Marín Commission is treated as part of the Santer Commission.

1	commissions

A data frame with 25 variables:

key_id: numeric. An ID number that uniquely identifies each observation. Indicates the default sort order for the dataset.
commission_id: numeric. The ID number that uniquely identifies each Commission.
commission: string. The name of the Commission.
full_name: string. The full name of the President of the Commission.
full_name_latin: string. The full name of the President of the Commission using only basic Latin characters.
last_name: string. The last name of the President of the Commission.
last_name_latin: string. The last name of the President of the Commission using only basic Latin characters.
first_name: string. The first name of the President of the Commission.
first_name_latin: string. The first name of the President of the Commission using only basic Latin characters.
member_state_id: numeric. An ID number that uniquely identifies each member state.
member_state: string. The name of the President of the Commission's member state.
member_state_code: string. The two-letter code assigned by the Commission to the President of the Commission's member state.
national_party_code: string. The common abbreviation of the President of the Commission's national political party.
national_party_name: string. The name of the President of the Commission's national political party in the President's member state's official language.
national_party_name_english: string. The name of the President of the Commission's national political party in English.
political_group_code: string. The common abbreviation of the political group.
political_group_name: string. The name of the President of the Commission's political group.
start_date: date. The start date of the Commission.
start_year: numeric. The start year of the Commission.
start_month: numeric. The start month of the Commission.
start_day: numeric. The start day of the Commission.
end_date: date. The end date of the Commission.
end_year: numeric. The start year of the Commission.
end_month: numeric. The start month of the Commission.
end_day: numeric. The end day of the Commission.