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All roll calls · whole term, 16 Jul 2024 – 25 Sept 2026 · topic Long-term budget (MFF) (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 votes4All roll calls147
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 2025 to Q2 2026: Agreement Index from 0 (evenly split) to 1 (all voted the same).

Q2 2025 → Q2 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 2025—13 votes—13 votes—13 votes—0 votes—13 votes—13 votes—13 votes—0 votes—13 votes—13 votes—13 votes—13 votes—11 votes—13 votes—13 votes—13 votes—9 votes—0 votes—0 votes—0 votes—13 votes—13 votes—13 votes—13 votes—13 votes—0 votes—10 votes
Q1 2026—1 vote—1 vote—1 vote—0 votes—1 vote—1 vote—1 vote—0 votes—1 vote—1 vote—1 vote—1 vote—1 vote—1 vote—1 vote—1 vote—1 vote—0 votes—0 votes—0 votes—1 vote—1 vote—1 vote—1 vote—1 vote—0 votes—1 vote
Q2 20260.57133 votes0.63133 votes0.71133 votes—0 votes0.52133 votes0.60133 votes0.60133 votes—0 votes0.72133 votes0.71133 votes0.45133 votes0.49133 votes0.84106 votes0.55131 votes0.73133 votes0.47133 votes0.69133 votes—0 votes—0 votes—0 votes0.55133 votes0.52133 votes0.77133 votes0.71133 votes0.66133 votes—0 votes0.38133 votes
Whole period0.560.630.69—0.530.590.59—0.720.710.430.500.830.590.740.460.68———0.550.510.780.700.66—0.39
Votes considered147147147014714714701471471471471181451471471430001471471471471470144

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 0.5614720
Belgium 0.6314722
Bulgaria 0.6914717
Cyprus fewer than 10 seats — not compared—06
Czechia 0.5314721
Germany 0.5914795
Denmark 0.5914715
Estonia fewer than 10 seats — not compared—07
Spain 0.7214760
Finland 0.7114715
France 0.4314781
Greece 0.5014721
Croatia 0.8311812
Hungary 0.5914521
Ireland 0.7414714
Italy 0.4614776
Lithuania 0.6814311
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 0.5514731
Poland 0.5114753
Portugal 0.7814721
Romania 0.7014733
Sweden 0.6614721
Slovenia fewer than 10 seats — not compared—09
Slovakia 0.3914415

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.

  • 147 votes considered (all roll-call votes matching the filters; scope).
  • 2 of 6 decisions in the period had no final vote recorded by name (a show of hands or a count without names) and cannot be measured.
  • 920 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 25 Sept 2026, 03:36 UTC (data stamp f37e5638cded, code 6d4005c55bde; what the stamp is).
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https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/cohesion?by=country&scope=all&topic=budget%2Fmff&to=2026-09-25
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data version f37e5638cded (25 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 — All roll calls · whole term, 16 Jul 2024 – 25 Sept 2026 · topic Long-term budget (MFF) (model-assigned) · national delegations · per quarter · abstentions counted”. Analysis. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/cohesion?by=country&scope=all&topic=budget%2Fmff&to=2026-09-25 (retrieved 25 September 2026). Data: European Parliament Open Data, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/ (CC BY 4.0); data version f37e5638cded (25 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-2026-09-25,
  author = {{EU Parl Watch Research}},
  title = {{Cohesion — All roll calls · whole term, 16 Jul 2024 – 25 Sept 2026 · topic Long-term budget (MFF) (model-assigned) · national delegations · per quarter · abstentions counted}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/cohesion?by=country&scope=all&topic=budget%2Fmff&to=2026-09-25}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/cohesion?by=country&scope=all&topic=budget%2Fmff&to=2026-09-25},
  urldate = {2026-09-25},
  publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
  note = {Analysis. Data: European Parliament Open Data (CC BY 4.0); data version f37e5638cded (25 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}
}