Foreign Governments

Starting Places

Comprehensive websites for locating all types of Foreign Government information on the Web.

Selected Country Links

This is a limited set of links for individual countries. Links provided here have been frequently requested by students, faculty, and community users. For links to other countries please use either the Michigan or Northwestern sites linked above.

+ Canada
  • The Canadian Encyclopedia
  • Canadian Legal Information Institute
    "Statutes, regulations and court information for Canada and its provinces."
  • The Canadian Parliament
    "The Parliamentary Internet Parlementaire website, created and maintained jointly by the Senate, House of Commons, and the Library of Parliament, offers information on the Canadian Parliament."
  • LEGISinfo
    From the Library of Parliment, "LEGISINFO is an essential research tool for finding information on legislation currently before Parliament. This tool provides electronic access to a wide range of information about individual bills, such as: "
  • Departments and Agencies of Canada
    "This comprehensive list provides direct links to the primary Web sites of Government of Canada departments and agencies."
  • GovInfo - Canada
    "GovInfo: Government on the Web is the University of British Columbia Library's "unique approach to organizing access to government web resources, and selected CD-ROMs available in Koerner Library. Many hundreds of links to Canadian provincial and federal, U.S. and International agency sites are included in the database, including text site descriptions."
  • Government of Canada
    The website of the Government of Canada is a comprehensive site that includes country facts and government history, publications, departments and agencies, frequently asked questions, and visitor's information.
  • The Royal Canadian Mounted Police
    "The Royal Canadian Mounted Police is the Canadian national police service and is unique in the world since it is a national, federal, provincial and municipal policing body, providing total federal policing service to all Canadians."
  • Statistics Canada
    "Statistics Canada is the country's national statistical agency, which collects, compiles, analyses, abstracts and publishes statistical information on virtually every aspect of the nation's society and economy. "
+ China
+ France
  • Assemblée nationale
    The website of the National Assembly of France (English translation).
  • Bank of France
    The Bank of France provides information about banking regulations, publications and statistics, current events, a monthly digest, EMU updates and practical banking and financial information.
  • Declaration des droits de l'Homme et du citoyen
    The Declaration of the Rights of Man (no English translation is provided).
  • Ministry of Foreign Affairs
    The Ministry of Foreign Affairs provides information about France's foreign policy, France and the European Union, visitor's information, contact information, and a profile of France. Some pages are available in English, others are not.
  • The Prime Minister's Website
    This site includes information about the Prime Minister, public institutions, symbols of the republic, news, statistics, and the European Union.
  • The Senate
    "The Senate website explains the role, rules and procedures of the parliamentary assembly, provides a bibliography is to assist students and research workers, and describes the history of France’s Upper Chamber with the help of audio and video modules."
  • Service-Public
    The official Web site for the French civil service.
+ Germany
  • Bundesministerium der Finanzen (Ministry of Finance)
    This is the website of the Federal Ministry of Finance (very little English translation is provided).
  • Bundesregierung (The German Government)
    The website of the German Federal Government provides links to all facets of the German government, including the Chancellor, the cabinet and various government ministries, policies, publications and current news of the German government.
  • Embassy to the United States
    "Provides cultural, statistical and some foreign policy information."
  • Federal Ministry of Justice
    "The central task of the Federal Ministry of Justice is to safeguard and further develop the German state based on the rule of law. The legislative work of the Ministry is in accord with this, and includes preparing new statutes as well as amendments or rescissions."
  • Federal Statistical Office
    "Our assignment is to provide and distribute objective, independent and highly qualitative statistical information to all, namely politicians, government, administrative agencies, business and industry, and the citizens in general."
  • German Bundestag (The German Parliament)
    The German Parliament website includes information about rules and procedures of Parliament, members, legislation, calendars, election dates, visitor and contact information.
+ Great Britain
  • Her Majesty's Stationary Office (HMSO)
    HMSO is responsible for printing a wide variety of government publications.
  • BOPCRIS
    "The British Official Publications Collaborative Reader Information Service. You can use this web site to search and browse information from British Official Publications over the period 1688-1995"
  • Historical Manuscripts Commission
    "The Historical Manuscripts Commission provides information about the existence, location and nature of manuscripts and records for the study of British history."
  • National Statistics
    "The National Statistics website contains the latest official UK statistics and provides free access to a selection of recently released publications in downloadable PDF format."
  • Open.gov.uk
    Open.gov.uk provides links to UK public sector information on the Internet, including governmental offices, agencies and councils.
  • The Stationary Office Official Documents Homepage
    "The Stationery Office is developing a service to assist internet users to locate official documents by providing access to material published by The Stationery Office and other authoritative bodies."
  • United Kingdom Parliament
    The United Kingdom Parliament provides information about and links to the House of Commons and the House of Lords.
  • 10 Downing Street
    10 Downing Street is the website of the Prime Minister of Great Britain, and provides detailed information about government policies and programs.
+ Japan
  • Bank of Japan
  • Cabinet Office - Government of Japan
    The Cabinet Office provides links to economic and fiscal policies, quality-of-life policies, the Office for Gender Equality, the Decoration Bureau, The Economic and Social Research Institute, and The National Archives of Japan.
  • House of Councillors
    "The House of Councillors (and the House of Representatives) comprise the National Diet of Japan, the country's sole law-making body."
  • House of Representatives
    "The House of Representatives, as a part of the National Diet, designates the prime minister, decides the national budget, approves treaties, and considers petitions presented to the House by the people. "
  • Japanese Information network
  • Ministry of Foreign Affairs
    Ministry of Foreign Affairs provides information about all facets of Japanese foreign policy.
  • Prime Minister of Japan
  • Supreme Court of Japan
    "The Constitution of Japan vests complete judicial power in the Supreme Court, and in such inferior courts as are established by law."
+ Mexico
+ Major Governmental
  • The Mexican Constitution
    Georgetown University's Political Database of the Americas provides the full-text of the Mexican Constitution (in Spanish only).
  • The Mexican Presidency
    The Mexican Presidency website offers a profile of the Mexican President, information about the Cabinet, the full-text of official speeches, press releases, news, and visitor information.
  • The Mexican Senate
    In Spanish only.
  • Suprema Corte de Justicia de México
    The website of the Supreme Court of Mexico (in Spanish only).
  • The Mexican Presidency
    The Mexican Presidency website offers a profile of the Mexican President, information about the Cabinet, the full-text of official speeches, press releases, news, and visitor information.
  • The Ministry of Foreign Affairs
    "The Ministry of Foreign Affairs web page contains official information about Mexico's foreign policy and international relations, as well as information about the services that the Foreign Ministry offers to the public."
+ Statistical Resources

Selected here are pages provided by Mexican Ministries in English.

  • Banco de Mexico
    The Bank of Mexico's website offers information about monetary and exchange rate policies, economic and financial indicators, publications and other services.
  • The Energy Sector
    This page provides links to data on production, employment, capacity for the electricity and oil/gas sectors. It also provides links to some macroeconomic data. Most of this data is in excel spread sheet format. NOTE: Table headers are in Spanish.
  • Ministry of Finance and Public Debt
    "Timely Public Finances and Public Debt Statistics" are available on a monthly and quarterly basis. Also available are debt statistics for states and cities.
  • Labor Statistics - Ministry of Labor
    The usual employment and wage statistics can be found on this site. Also available here are "Main Indicators of the Migration at the North Border of México Survey."

+ News & Commercial Sites
+ Northern Ireland
  • Current Issues: Northern Ireland
     "The documents and resources in Current Issues are selected by the Public Affairs Section, American Embassy, London, from the daily Washington File and other U.S. Government sources."
  • Information on the Irish State
    The Government of Ireland website contains links the Office of the President, the Parliament, the Prime Minister, the police, defense forces, government departments, and local authorities.
  • The Northern Ireland Executive
    "The Northern Ireland Executive Website provides a regularly updated gateway to information about the devolved administration in Northern Ireland."
  • The Northern Ireland Office (NIO)
    "The Northern Ireland Office is the office of the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland. The NIO has responsibility for matters relating to Firearms and Explosives (including fireworks) legislation and explosives licensing."
  • Sinn Féin
    "Founded in 1905, Sinn Féin is the oldest political party in Ireland, and seeks to attain national self-determination."
  • Ulster Unionist Party
    "The Ulster Unionist Party seeks to maintain Northern Ireland under the British Crown as an integral part of the United Kingdom and to uphold democratic institutions of government in Northern Ireland."
+ Russia
  • The Constitution of the Russian Federation
    An English translation of the Russian Constitution of December 12, 1993.
  • Central Bank of the Russian Federation
     The Bank of Russia provides information about monetary policy, the Russian banking system and the history of Russian banking, financial markets, daily information, press releases and publications.
  • Council of Federation - the upper chamber of the Russian parliament
    The legislative body for the Russian Federation is the Duma. Its site is only in Russian, but the Council provides some information in English.
  • Embassy of the Russian Federation
    The web site of the Russian Embassy in Washington provides a number of useful links. Including a country profile and foreign policy information.
  • ITAR-TASS News Agency
    "The Information Telegraph Agency of Russia (ITAR-TASS) is one of the world's largest international information agencies. It has 74 bureaus and offices in Russia and 65 bureaus in 62 foreign countries. This link accesses their English Language pages."
  • Ministry of Foreign Affairs
    English language information provided by the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Includes links to press briefs.
  • Permanent Mission of the Russian Federation to the UN
    The Permanent Mission of the Russian Federation to the UN provides full-text statements and speeches made by Russian government representatives to the United Nations.
  • Russian Federation
    "The Russian Federation provides official information and documents from the web pages of the Russian President, Security Council and other official Web-sites. Some of the documents you'll find in English, but some are only in Russian."

Statistical Resources (by country name)

Where available the English Language version of these statistical web sites are provided. Be aware that in most cases additional statistical information may be available in the native language version of the site. For Central Bank sites links go directly to the statistical pages when possible. If the link does not go directly to the statistical pages of a central bank site such information may be scattered throughout the site or may be non-existent.

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Translations

While many of the Web sites linked to from this page are not in English,Yahoo! Babel Fish can translate a Web page from the following languages into English:

  • Chinese
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  • German
  • Greek
  • Italian
  • Japanese
  • Korean
  • Portuguese
  • Russian
  • Spanish
 

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