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Cohesion

All roll calls · whole term, 16 Jul 2024 – 25 Sept 2026 · topic Competitiveness & industry (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, Q2 2025 to Q3 2026: Agreement Index from 0 (evenly split) to 1 (all voted the same).

Q2 2025 → 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 20250.6351 votes0.5651 votes0.6051 votes—0 votes0.5851 votes0.5851 votes0.7051 votes—0 votes0.6451 votes0.6748 votes0.3951 votes0.4624 votes0.7231 votes0.5551 votes0.8251 votes0.4451 votes0.7147 votes—0 votes—0 votes—0 votes0.6251 votes0.6151 votes0.7351 votes0.6651 votes0.6651 votes—0 votes0.3851 votes
Q3 2025—18 votes—18 votes—18 votes—0 votes—18 votes—18 votes—18 votes—0 votes—18 votes—18 votes—18 votes—18 votes—18 votes—8 votes—18 votes—18 votes—17 votes—0 votes—0 votes—0 votes—18 votes—18 votes—18 votes—18 votes—18 votes—0 votes—18 votes
Q4 2025—7 votes—7 votes—7 votes—0 votes—7 votes—7 votes—7 votes—0 votes—7 votes—7 votes—7 votes—7 votes—7 votes—7 votes—7 votes—7 votes—4 votes—0 votes—0 votes—0 votes—7 votes—7 votes—7 votes—7 votes—7 votes—0 votes—7 votes
Q1 2026—16 votes—16 votes—16 votes—0 votes—16 votes—16 votes—16 votes—0 votes—16 votes—16 votes—16 votes—16 votes—15 votes—13 votes—16 votes—16 votes—14 votes—0 votes—0 votes—0 votes—16 votes—16 votes—16 votes—16 votes—16 votes—0 votes—16 votes
Q2 2026—2 votes—2 votes—2 votes—0 votes—2 votes—2 votes—2 votes—0 votes—2 votes—2 votes—2 votes—2 votes—2 votes—2 votes—2 votes—2 votes—2 votes—0 votes—0 votes—0 votes—2 votes—2 votes—2 votes—2 votes—2 votes—0 votes—2 votes
Q3 2026—14 votes—14 votes—14 votes—0 votes—14 votes—14 votes—14 votes—0 votes—14 votes—14 votes—14 votes—14 votes—14 votes—14 votes—8 votes—14 votes—14 votes—0 votes—0 votes—0 votes—14 votes—14 votes—14 votes—14 votes—14 votes—0 votes—14 votes
Whole period0.610.590.59—0.580.610.74—0.690.740.420.490.750.590.790.470.69———0.660.600.780.690.70—0.37
Votes considered10810810801081081080108105108818795102108980001081081081081080108

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 0.6110820
Belgium 0.5910822
Bulgaria 0.5910817
Cyprus fewer than 10 seats — not compared—06
Czechia 0.5810821
Germany 0.6110895
Denmark 0.7410815
Estonia fewer than 10 seats — not compared—07
Spain 0.6910860
Finland 0.7410515
France 0.4210881
Greece 0.498121
Croatia 0.758712
Hungary 0.599521
Ireland 0.7910214
Italy 0.4710876
Lithuania 0.699811
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 0.6610831
Poland 0.6010853
Portugal 0.7810821
Romania 0.6910833
Sweden 0.7010821
Slovenia fewer than 10 seats — not compared—09
Slovakia 0.3710815

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.

  • 108 votes considered (all roll-call votes matching the filters; scope).
  • 4 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.
  • 728 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 Competitiveness & industry (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=economy%2Fcompetitiveness&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 Competitiveness \& industry (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=economy%2Fcompetitiveness&to=2026-09-25}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/cohesion?by=country&scope=all&topic=economy%2Fcompetitiveness&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}
}