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EU Web Archive (Publications Office)
The EU Publications Office's archive of the websites of EU institutions, agencies, and bodies, collected since 2018. It is browsed through the portal, with no documented search API. The place to look for earlier versions of europa.eu and other institutional sites; note that access is blocked from some networks, so it may not load on every connection.
No programmatic check, opens the archive’s own search.
Why it’s useful & how it works
This is the primary place to look for earlier versions of websites hosted on the europa.eu domain and its subdomains, including the sites of EU agencies, the European Commission, Parliament, and Council. The archive spans captures going back to 1996 and now holds around 250 actively archived websites organised into five thematic collections including a dedicated Brexit archive. You browse the portal and select a date to view earlier versions; there is no search API. Access can be restricted on some networks, so Echo links you directly to the portal.
What’s inside
Roughly 250 websites under the europa.eu domain, archived regularly since 2018, with some captures from as far back as 1996. The five thematic collections cover institutional sites, Brexit, Horizon 2020, Council Presidencies, and Publications Office materials.
What we measured
Our own probes, not the archive’s own claims. Re-run periodically; every reading below is dated.
Reachability
- Direct request
- Blocked HTTP 403 819 ms
- Through a datacenter proxy
- Unreachable 11.1 s (fetch failed: Connect Timeout Error)
Reachability measured 2026-08-22.
Access
May be geo- or IP-blocked from some networks.