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Final votes · 29 Mar 2026 – 29 Sept 2026 · topic Economy & single market (model-assigned) · national delegations · per quarter · abstentions counted

How united do the delegations vote — over time, and on the votes of each committee or topic?

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Period Term202420252026Last 6 months
Custom dates
Votes Final votes41All roll calls155
Blocs GroupsDelegations
Periods Part-sessionsQuartersMonthsWhole period
Positions For, against, abstainedFor and against only ⓘ

Cohesion over time

Agreement Index per quarter, from 0 (evenly split) to 1 (all voted the same). A vote counts for a bloc when at least 10 of its members and a third of its seats voted; a gap is a period with fewer than 20 votes counted.

Cohesion of the delegations per quarter, Q2 2026 to Q3 2026: Agreement Index from 0 (evenly split) to 1 (all voted the same).

Q2 2026 → Q3 2026; each panel highlights one series, the others faint behind it.

Data as a table
Agreement Index per period (0 = evenly split, 1 = all voted the same), with the votes counted in it. — : fewer than 20 votes counted in the period (a vote counts for a bloc when at least 10 of its members and a third of its seats voted).
PeriodAustriaBelgiumBulgariaCyprusCzechiaGermanyDenmarkEstoniaSpainFinlandFranceGreeceCroatiaHungaryIrelandItalyLithuaniaLuxembourgLatviaMaltaNetherlandsPolandPortugalRomaniaSwedenSloveniaSlovakia
Q2 20260.5421 votes0.5921 votes0.6821 votes—0 votes0.7721 votes0.5922 votes0.7321 votes—0 votes0.6822 votes0.7220 votes0.6221 votes0.4722 votes—13 votes0.5821 votes0.7821 votes0.5722 votes—11 votes—0 votes—0 votes—0 votes0.6421 votes0.6022 votes0.7021 votes0.7522 votes0.7222 votes—0 votes0.5422 votes
Q3 2026—19 votes—19 votes—19 votes—0 votes—19 votes—19 votes—19 votes—0 votes—19 votes—19 votes—19 votes—19 votes—18 votes—19 votes—13 votes—19 votes—16 votes—0 votes—0 votes—0 votes—19 votes—19 votes—19 votes—19 votes—19 votes—0 votes—19 votes
Whole period0.540.580.64—0.720.620.72—0.720.740.580.470.830.540.810.570.78———0.640.590.730.760.70—0.50
Votes considered404040040414004139404131403441270004041404141041

Over the whole selection

Each delegation’s Agreement Index over every vote in the selection where enough of its members voted.

Cohesion: the Agreement Index (0–1) over the votes counted — votes where at least 10 members and a third of the seats voted; — : fewer than 20 such votes. Seats: members now. Order as the backend lists the blocs, not a ranking.
DelegationCohesionVotes countedSeats
Austria 0.544020
Belgium 0.584022
Bulgaria 0.644017
Cyprus fewer than 10 seats — not compared—06
Czechia 0.724021
Germany 0.624195
Denmark 0.724015
Estonia fewer than 10 seats — not compared—07
Spain 0.724160
Finland 0.743915
France 0.584081
Greece 0.474121
Croatia 0.833112
Hungary 0.544021
Ireland 0.813414
Italy 0.574176
Lithuania 0.782711
Luxembourg fewer than 10 seats — not compared—06
Latvia fewer than 10 seats — not compared—09
Malta fewer than 10 seats — not compared—06
Netherlands 0.644031
Poland 0.594153
Portugal 0.734021
Romania 0.764133
Sweden 0.704121
Slovenia fewer than 10 seats — not compared—09
Slovakia 0.504115

The tables by committee and by topic are computed over a whole period: choose Whole period.

About these figures

What was counted, what was left out, and how.

  • 41 votes considered (final votes matching the filters; scope).
  • 9 of 50 decisions in the period had no final vote recorded by name (a show of hands or a count without names) and cannot be measured.
  • 288 times a bloc had too few members voting on a vote (fewer than 10, or under a third of its seats) and was left out of that vote (turnout rule).
  • Cohesion is the Agreement Index: 1 when every voting member took the same position, 0 when the bloc split evenly three ways (method). A bloc counts on a vote only when at least 10 of its members and a third of its seats voted; the non-attached have no group cohesion.
  • A delegation’s cohesion reflects the mix of groups its members sit in. Delegations with fewer than 10 seats are shown but not compared.
  • Months are offered for all roll calls only, and a month needs at least 20 votes.
  • Each member is counted in the group they belonged to on the day of the vote (group at the date).
  • Roll calls are not a random sample: final votes on laws are recorded by name, most other roll calls because a group asked for it. A group’s line is inferred from its members’ votes; the Parliament publishes no whip.
  • Methods: Cohesion (Agreement Index) v1, Final votes and all roll calls v1, Group at the date of the vote v1.
  • Data as of 29 Sept 2026, 03:29 UTC (data stamp 2b7a29b98b0d, code 6d4005c55bde; what the stamp is).
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data version 2b7a29b98b0d (29 Sept 2026) · methods: group-at-date v1, participation v1, abstention v1, loyalty v1, against-clear v1, cohesion v1, agreement v1, group-agreement v1, winning-side v1, similar-votes v1, scope v1, data-version v1 · methods
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EU Parl Watch Research (2026). “Cohesion — Final votes · 29 Mar 2026 – 29 Sept 2026 · topic Economy & single market (model-assigned) · national delegations · per quarter · abstentions counted”. Analysis. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/cohesion?by=country&from=2026-03-29&topic=economy&to=2026-09-29 (retrieved 29 September 2026). Data: European Parliament Open Data, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/ (CC BY 4.0); data version 2b7a29b98b0d (29 Sept 2026) · methods: group-at-date v1, participation v1, abstention v1, loyalty v1, against-clear v1, cohesion v1, agreement v1, group-agreement v1, winning-side v1, similar-votes v1, scope v1, data-version v1.
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@misc{epw-analysis-2026-09-29,
  author = {{EU Parl Watch Research}},
  title = {{Cohesion — Final votes · 29 Mar 2026 – 29 Sept 2026 · topic Economy \& single market (model-assigned) · national delegations · per quarter · abstentions counted}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/cohesion?by=country&from=2026-03-29&topic=economy&to=2026-09-29}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/cohesion?by=country&from=2026-03-29&topic=economy&to=2026-09-29},
  urldate = {2026-09-29},
  publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
  note = {Analysis. Data: European Parliament Open Data (CC BY 4.0); data version 2b7a29b98b0d (29 Sept 2026) · methods: group-at-date v1, participation v1, abstention v1, loyalty v1, against-clear v1, cohesion v1, agreement v1, group-agreement v1, winning-side v1, similar-votes v1, scope v1, data-version v1}
}