The aim
The goal is to be the single place where someone with a stake in EU Inc (a founder, a lawyer, a policy researcher, a journalist) can check what is happening in their own country, in plain English, with every claim linked to its primary source. That picture is currently split across a dozen national languages, ministries, parliamentary committees, and law-firm bulletins. The consolidation work is done once, for every member state.
How aggregation works
Each of the 27 countries has a curated registry of sources mapped to four tiers: primary government (ministries, parliaments, registries, tax authorities), practitioner (law firms, bar associations), business press, and editorially curated social. Sources are polled on intervals proportional to their authority and update frequency: government registries hourly, weekly press digests weekly. The polling layer covers RSS, page diffs, lightweight scrapers, and JSON APIs where they exist.
The AI layer
Detected items pass through a language pipeline before they reach a country page:
- translation of the original-language title and summary to English, with the source-language text preserved alongside;
- classification into event type (legislative milestone, official statement, analysis, advocacy, press, social) and the topic taxonomy at /topics;
- importance scoring that decides whether an item belongs in the live timeline or only the archive;
- deduplication across sources, since the same announcement reaches the press, the registry, and a law firm at different times.
The pipeline is conservative. High-confidence items publish automatically with the source link visibly attached. Lower-confidence items queue for a human pass before they appear. Provenance (which source, when, in what language) is preserved on every published signal.
Methodology
- Standardised country templates. Every country page answers the same questions in the same order. A reader who has spent thirty seconds on the Germany page knows where to look on the Bulgaria page.
- Absence as data. Sections with no signal show “Not yet detected, last checked {date}” rather than being hidden. In a regulatory tracker, the quiet jurisdictions are themselves the data.
- Primary sources or nothing. Every status badge, reference value, and timeline entry links back to an authoritative source.
- Public correction log. Corrections are recorded at /methodology so the audit trail stays open.
Privacy
No third-party tracking pixels. Analytics through Plausible, a privacy-friendly EU-hosted provider. The subscriber list is never shared or sold; the subscription management page handles deletion.