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All roll calls · whole term, 16 Jul 2024 – 29 Sept 2026 · topic Rule of law in member states (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 votes6All roll calls160
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.

Dashed: a period with fewer than 20 votes counted (no value) between two that have one.

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 20250.4528 votes0.5628 votes0.4928 votes—0 votes0.4728 votes0.5828 votes0.7128 votes—0 votes0.7128 votes0.8628 votes0.3028 votes0.5928 votes0.7228 votes0.7728 votes0.9428 votes0.3428 votes0.5527 votes—0 votes—0 votes—0 votes0.5428 votes0.3528 votes0.7628 votes0.5428 votes0.6728 votes—0 votes0.3328 votes
Q4 20250.5358 votes0.6958 votes0.5058 votes—0 votes0.3958 votes0.6558 votes0.7858 votes—0 votes0.7558 votes0.8758 votes0.2858 votes0.6258 votes0.7158 votes0.7958 votes0.9857 votes0.3858 votes—17 votes—0 votes—0 votes—0 votes0.6258 votes0.2958 votes0.8158 votes0.4658 votes0.7758 votes—0 votes0.3658 votes
Q1 20260.4924 votes0.6724 votes0.5824 votes—0 votes0.1924 votes0.6324 votes0.7224 votes—0 votes0.7224 votes0.9524 votes0.3224 votes0.4824 votes0.7224 votes0.9820 votes0.9724 votes0.4324 votes0.4824 votes—0 votes—0 votes—0 votes0.5724 votes0.3024 votes0.8324 votes0.5924 votes0.6824 votes—0 votes0.2024 votes
Q2 20260.5150 votes0.6550 votes0.5150 votes—0 votes0.4650 votes0.6150 votes0.7550 votes—0 votes0.7050 votes0.9049 votes0.3950 votes0.6150 votes—15 votes0.4750 votes0.9550 votes0.3650 votes0.5749 votes—0 votes—0 votes—0 votes0.5350 votes0.3550 votes0.7750 votes0.5650 votes0.7350 votes—0 votes0.4345 votes
Whole period0.500.650.51—0.390.620.75—0.720.890.320.590.730.710.960.370.56———0.570.320.790.520.73—0.35
Votes considered160160160016016016001601591601601251561591601170001601601601601600155

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 0.5016020
Belgium 0.6516022
Bulgaria 0.5116017
Cyprus fewer than 10 seats — not compared—06
Czechia 0.3916021
Germany 0.6216095
Denmark 0.7516015
Estonia fewer than 10 seats — not compared—07
Spain 0.7216060
Finland 0.8915915
France 0.3216081
Greece 0.5916021
Croatia 0.7312512
Hungary 0.7115621
Ireland 0.9615914
Italy 0.3716076
Lithuania 0.5611711
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 0.5716031
Poland 0.3216053
Portugal 0.7916021
Romania 0.5216033
Sweden 0.7316021
Slovenia fewer than 10 seats — not compared—09
Slovakia 0.3515515

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.

  • 160 votes considered (all roll-call votes matching the filters; scope).
  • 0 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.
  • 1 049 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 — All roll calls · whole term, 16 Jul 2024 – 29 Sept 2026 · topic Rule of law in member states (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=justice%2Frule-of-law&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 — All roll calls · whole term, 16 Jul 2024 – 29 Sept 2026 · topic Rule of law in member states (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=justice%2Frule-of-law&to=2026-09-29}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/cohesion?by=country&scope=all&topic=justice%2Frule-of-law&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}
}