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The Euromanifesto Project (EM Project) is one of five components of the European Election Studies (EES). The aim of the project is to collect all party manifestos issued by political parties and the European political groups in the run-up to the European Parliament (EP) elections in all EU member states. The present dataset contains a content analysis of 221 party programs for the 2019 EP elections from 28 countries and the European political groups. Party manifestos were coded by 27 coders from all European Union member states using a hierarchical classification scheme with nine domains divided into different categories and subcategories.Domain 1: External relations Foreign Special Relationships: FSR general, FSR to Eastern European countries of the EU; FSR to Eastern European countries not in the EU (except Ukraine); FSR to Russia, to USA, to Ukraine, to Syria; anti-imperialism; military: military general, military Ukraine, military Syria; peace: peace general, peace Ukraine, peace Syria; internationalism; Europe, European Community/Union: Europe, European Community/Union: general; financing the EC/EU; EU Exit, Brexit. Domain 2: Freedom and democracy Freedom and human rights: freedom, human rights general, human rights refugees, freedom of press; democracy; constitutionalism; populism: anti-elitism, glorification of common people. Domain 3: Political system (in general) Decentralization: decentralization general, power to the EC/EU; transfer of power to the EC/EU; Executive and Administrative Efficiency, political corruption, and political authority. Domain 4: Political system of the European Union Competences of the European Parliament; competences of the European Commission; competences of the European Council: competences of the European Council general, voting procedures in the (European) Council; competences of the European Court of Justice; competences of other EC/EU institutions: competences of other EC/EU institutions general, European Central Bank;...