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External Publication 3. January 2019 Andrew Bassilakis / Matthias Diermeier / Henry Goecke at the CESifo Forum Converging Media versus Diverging Politics - the Brexit Twitter on Debate

Even after two years of Brexit negotiations no deal between the EU and the UK has been settled. Today, the negotiation’s outcome seems as unpredictable as ever. This paper analyses twitter content as a proxy for the political and public debate with respect to Brexit.

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Converging Media versus Diverging Politics - the Brexit Twitter on Debate
External Publication 3. January 2019 Andrew Bassilakis / Matthias Diermeier / Henry Goecke at the CESifo Forum

Converging Media versus Diverging Politics - the Brexit Twitter on Debate

Article in CESifo Forum

Andrew Bassilakis / Matthias Diermeier / Henry Goecke at the CESifo Forum German Economic Institute (IW) German Economic Institute (IW)

Even after two years of Brexit negotiations no deal between the EU and the UK has been settled. Today, the negotiation’s outcome seems as unpredictable as ever. This paper analyses twitter content as a proxy for the political and public debate with respect to Brexit.

We analyse all tweets of the remain and leave campaigns to track linguistic changes of the debate over time and to train a Naïve Bayes classifier. By applying this machine learning algorithm, we find increasing approval for the remain side from the media and a further divergence on the Brexit topic between different politicians and groups of politicians after the General Election in July 2017. A particularly alternating position on Brexit can be identified for Jeremy Corbyn, the leader of the Labour Party.

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Converging Media versus Diverging Politics - the Brexit Twitter on Debate
External Publication 3. January 2019 Andrew Bassilakis / Matthias Diermeier / Henry Goecke at the CESifo Forum

Andrew Bassilakis / Matthias Diermeier / CHenry Goecke: Converging Media versus Diverging Politics - the Brexit Twitter on Debate

Article in CESifo Forum

Andrew Bassilakis / Matthias Diermeier / Henry Goecke at the CESifo Forum German Economic Institute (IW) German Economic Institute (IW)

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More and more companies in Europe are using artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. In 2025, one in five companies in the EU with 10 employees or more used at least one major AI technology, up from 8% in 2023 (Eurostat, 2026a).

Jan Büchel / Jan Engler / Armin Mertens IW

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IW-Trends No. 2 15. July 2026 Jan Büchel / Jan Felix Engler / Nicolai Krüger*

AI Specialists in Public Administration – Needs and Options for Action

The use of AI in Germany’s public sector not only offers potential for efficiency gains but, in view of the sector’s shortage of skilled staff, is also urgently needed.

Jan Büchel / Jan Felix Engler / Nicolai Krüger* IW

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