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Cohesion

All roll calls · whole term, 16 Jul 2024 – 25 Sept 2026 · topic Sanctions (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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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 Q1 2026: Agreement Index from 0 (evenly split) to 1 (all voted the same).

Q4 2024 → Q1 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—8 votes—8 votes—8 votes—0 votes—8 votes—8 votes—8 votes—0 votes—8 votes—8 votes—8 votes—8 votes—7 votes—8 votes—8 votes—8 votes—8 votes—0 votes—0 votes—0 votes—8 votes—8 votes—8 votes—8 votes—8 votes—0 votes—8 votes
Q1 20250.5946 votes0.6246 votes0.5046 votes—0 votes0.5146 votes0.6446 votes0.8546 votes—0 votes0.7046 votes0.8446 votes0.4546 votes0.4446 votes0.8446 votes0.7645 votes0.7246 votes0.4546 votes0.8239 votes—0 votes—0 votes—0 votes0.7646 votes0.6846 votes0.7646 votes0.7246 votes0.9046 votes—0 votes0.3946 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—0 votes—0 votes—0 votes—0 votes—1 vote—1 vote—1 vote—1 vote—1 vote—0 votes—1 vote
Whole period0.560.600.53—0.490.650.83—0.700.840.430.430.840.720.710.450.82———0.750.690.740.720.87—0.38
Votes considered555555055555505555555554545555470005555555555055

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 0.565520
Belgium 0.605522
Bulgaria 0.535517
Cyprus fewer than 10 seats — not compared—06
Czechia 0.495521
Germany 0.655595
Denmark 0.835515
Estonia fewer than 10 seats — not compared—07
Spain 0.705560
Finland 0.845515
France 0.435581
Greece 0.435521
Croatia 0.845412
Hungary 0.725421
Ireland 0.715514
Italy 0.455576
Lithuania 0.824711
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 0.755531
Poland 0.695553
Portugal 0.745521
Romania 0.725533
Sweden 0.875521
Slovenia fewer than 10 seats — not compared—09
Slovakia 0.385515

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.

  • 55 votes considered (all roll-call votes matching the filters; scope).
  • 1 of 3 decisions in the period had no final vote recorded by name (a show of hands or a count without names) and cannot be measured.
  • 340 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 Sanctions (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%2Fsanctions&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 Sanctions (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%2Fsanctions&to=2026-09-25}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/cohesion?by=country&scope=all&topic=defence%2Fsanctions&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}
}