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All roll calls · whole term, 16 Jul 2024 – 25 Sept 2026 · topic EU security & defence policy (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 votes17All roll calls260
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, Q4 2024 to Q3 2026: Agreement Index from 0 (evenly split) to 1 (all voted the same).

Q4 2024 → 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
Q4 2024—13 votes—13 votes—13 votes—0 votes—13 votes—13 votes—13 votes—0 votes—13 votes—13 votes—13 votes—13 votes—13 votes—13 votes—13 votes—13 votes—11 votes—0 votes—0 votes—0 votes—13 votes—13 votes—13 votes—13 votes—13 votes—0 votes—13 votes
Q1 20250.51106 votes0.52106 votes0.53106 votes—0 votes0.47106 votes0.55106 votes0.68106 votes—0 votes0.60106 votes0.71106 votes0.47106 votes0.39106 votes0.76105 votes0.67105 votes0.56106 votes0.48106 votes0.6794 votes—0 votes—0 votes—0 votes0.64106 votes0.72106 votes0.65106 votes0.71106 votes0.70106 votes—0 votes0.38106 votes
Q2 20250.5347 votes0.5147 votes0.5547 votes—0 votes0.5047 votes0.6247 votes0.6347 votes—0 votes0.6447 votes0.6747 votes0.3647 votes0.4747 votes0.6347 votes0.7547 votes0.6547 votes0.4447 votes0.6346 votes—0 votes—0 votes—0 votes0.5747 votes0.6547 votes0.6647 votes0.6447 votes0.6247 votes—0 votes0.4647 votes
Q4 20250.4823 votes0.5523 votes0.6523 votes—0 votes0.5223 votes0.5523 votes0.7723 votes—0 votes0.6823 votes0.8123 votes0.5223 votes0.3323 votes0.8523 votes0.6822 votes0.5023 votes0.4923 votes0.9020 votes—0 votes—0 votes—0 votes0.7323 votes0.7323 votes0.7423 votes0.7823 votes0.8023 votes—0 votes0.3823 votes
Q1 20260.5735 votes0.5735 votes0.6635 votes—0 votes0.4735 votes0.5835 votes0.6835 votes—0 votes0.6735 votes0.7335 votes0.5135 votes0.4035 votes0.7634 votes0.7930 votes0.6535 votes0.4935 votes0.7631 votes—0 votes—0 votes—0 votes0.6335 votes0.7735 votes0.7635 votes0.7935 votes0.6435 votes—0 votes0.3635 votes
Q2 20260.4623 votes0.7523 votes0.6722 votes—0 votes0.6723 votes0.6123 votes0.8623 votes—0 votes0.8423 votes0.8723 votes0.7323 votes0.4423 votes—0 votes0.6422 votes0.7723 votes0.6923 votes—0 votes—0 votes—0 votes—0 votes0.8523 votes0.8623 votes0.8423 votes0.7923 votes0.9023 votes—0 votes0.2723 votes
Q3 2026—13 votes—13 votes—13 votes—0 votes—13 votes—13 votes—13 votes—0 votes—13 votes—13 votes—13 votes—13 votes—13 votes—13 votes—0 votes—13 votes—13 votes—0 votes—0 votes—0 votes—13 votes—13 votes—13 votes—13 votes—13 votes—0 votes—13 votes
Whole period0.520.560.58—0.500.590.70—0.660.740.480.420.760.690.610.500.71———0.660.710.710.720.71—0.38
Votes considered260260259026026026002602602602602352522472602150002602602602602600260

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 0.5226020
Belgium 0.5626022
Bulgaria 0.5825917
Cyprus fewer than 10 seats — not compared—06
Czechia 0.5026021
Germany 0.5926095
Denmark 0.7026015
Estonia fewer than 10 seats — not compared—07
Spain 0.6626060
Finland 0.7426015
France 0.4826081
Greece 0.4226021
Croatia 0.7623512
Hungary 0.6925221
Ireland 0.6124714
Italy 0.5026076
Lithuania 0.7121511
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 0.6626031
Poland 0.7126053
Portugal 0.7126021
Romania 0.7226033
Sweden 0.7126021
Slovenia fewer than 10 seats — not compared—09
Slovakia 0.3826015

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.

  • 260 votes considered (all roll-call votes matching the filters; scope).
  • 1 of 18 decisions in the period had no final vote recorded by name (a show of hands or a count without names) and cannot be measured.
  • 1 652 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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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 EU security & defence policy (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=defence%2Fpolicy&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 EU security \& defence policy (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=defence%2Fpolicy&to=2026-09-25}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/cohesion?by=country&scope=all&topic=defence%2Fpolicy&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}
}